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Last weekend I had the opportunity to do a session with Waldek Mastykarz on Leveraging the new Application Model for structured and repeatable deployments, you can find the slides on SlideShare: Leveraging the new Application Model for structured and repeatable deployments. While preparing for this session of the last few weeks we tried to apply the App Model in real life scenario’s to achieve structured and repeatable deployments on Office 365. ...

A while ago we released the first version of the Mavention Anniversaries. In this first version all anniversaries of the current and the upcoming month where shown to the users. This way of rendering however resulted in some confusing behavior. Lets say John Doe has a 4th year anniversary the 2nd of the month, and you would open the app on the 5th it would still show the 4 year anniversary while you could argue that his anniversary will be ‘next year’ and should be his 5th year anniversary rather then the 4th. ...

In a few weeks there will the SharePoint Saturday NL 2014 will be held at Hotel Vianen in Vianen. On May the 24th there will be a full day of SharePoint goodness. Last year I had the opportunity to do a session on the new App Model with Napa. This year it will be even better, I will do a session with Waldek Mastykarz on Leveraging the new Application Model for structured and repeatable deployments. ...

As pointed out in my previous post about the Mavention Birthdays building apps are really addicting. So while the Mavention Birthdays app was queued for approval I figured we could extend its functionality a bit by not only showing birthdays but also anniversaries. As SharePoint is providing us with a HireDate field that could (or should) be filled with the hire date for each employee we could use that information to write a query to retrieve all the anniversaries. ...

Building SharePoint 2013 tends to be a bit addicting once you have the hang of it. Ever since we released a number of apps with Mavention. I got the change to discuss some cool app ideas with Waldek Mastykarz and as a result we figured that for having an intranet one of the things that you would like to be aware of is the upcoming birthdays. ...

I am pretty proud to announce that the Mavention Profile Completeness app is one of the four finalists for the App Awards for the SPC. As you can see on the App Awards voting page it is competing with both Nintex and Metalogix for the People’s Choice award. The Mavention Profile Completeness helps you to encourage your users to fill in the blanks on their profile. ...

As pointed out a while ago I will be doing a session on the European Office365 Connect. In this session I will be focusing on SharePoint Online Applification, or in other words what can apps do for your Office 365 implementation regarding SharePoint. In this session there will be two main topics. ...

Since the release of the Mavention Profile Completeness we deployed it into several of our projects where it all went well, it even resulted in some updates pushed into the App. Yet our last project we encountered an small error that took me a while to comprehend. At some point the app just stopped working for some users, while others would still be able to see their progress. ...

When you have several app parts on your page you can end up with a few of them famous spinners stating the ‘working on it’. Now from an end users perspective it might be a good idea to inform them that there is content to be loaded and it will take a few seconds to display that information. ...