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A Workable Pattern for PCF Events You Can Use Today

There's an easy way to get more events than OnChange in a PCF control that's 100% supported and will continue to work, even after proper event support is added. It takes surprisingly little extra effort too—let's take a look.

Keep those PCF components inside the box

PCF is awesome! Let's fix some common border box issues with a few lines of CSS and one extra line of PCF code.

Power Apps and Pro Devs—It's Happening

I gave an interview at Ignite this year, so I figured I'd post it here to give it the smallest bit more reach AND check off posting something to the blog in 2019. If the video isn't working, you can always (probably) see it on the

Catching up a forgotten moment

Dream job... to help others? To get famous? To help yourself? To get rich? All of the above? None? Hmmmm…

Elephants Out, Donkeys In

Photo by Toshihiro Oimatsu In case you've been wondering what the people that dwell in Layers 3 & 4 of the Internet have been up to lately, here's a taste: Jon Postel's famous statement in RFC 1122 of "Be liberal in what you

All new and shiny!

New effort, new URL, why not a new paint job?

What I'm Using

Every now and then I get asked or need to explain to people what my setup is, and in the grand tradition of straight copying others , I thought I'd do the same. So, without further ado... Editors Visual Studio Code (Canary/Nightly/"Insider" Edition) Extensions: I&

100 days of content: Day 0

Picture via Loren Kerns . So. 100 Days of Code is a thing that I've been thinking about doing... it's a way to be accountable, to myself and others... but I want to do more than code. After all, coding is my day-in and day-out

Ember, Azure, and Authentication

Chances are, sooner or later, you're going to want to be able to let someone log into an application you're writing. Here in the Microsoft space where I still spend a majority of my time, authenticating against Azure Active Directory is always a consideration in any

On What To Call SharePoint Developer-y Type People

A little more than a year ago , I was, as someone looking for .Net developers that knew the SharePoint API, frustrated by the confusion in the SharePoint space between the different kinds of developers that exist in the ecosystem. This confusion persists to this day, much to the detriment of

On 2013

But Greg... you can't post this stuff yet! Christmas isn't until, like, Wednesday! Yeah, and Christmas is poised to invade Labor Day next year. Shut up. About this time last year, I was just so ready for 2012 to end. It was a terrible, horrible, no

On responsibility, real and imagined

I recently inherited some money, and as a consequence was able to pay off most of my long term, PITA, oh god how are we ever gonna get out of this, debt. The day I went from website to website zeroing everything out was supposed to be a good day;

On keeping secrets

Derek Sivers: We got two ciders and she patiently waited while I spent 20 minutes reading through it. Pages filled with words about processing family drama, formulating goals, plans for life changes, romantic details, lists of regrets, contemplations, etc. I was surprised it was all meaningless to me. These pages

Hoards Of Novices

Uncle Bob Martin: Is the software industry trying to write the script for Hamlet by hiring a million monkeys to bang on keyboards? Perhaps we should rethink that strategy and hire one bard instead. Perhaps, instead of hoards of novices, we need a small team of professionals. http://blog.8thlight.

End of an Era

Greg 1.0 Born in the Bronx. Grew up in upper middle class suburban New Jersey. College at Virginia Tech: went in a Computer Science major, came out with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies. College summers working at Walt Disney World, first at Cosmic Ray's Starlight Cafe