In another post I reviewed how we can integrate a Form with Excel, letting all of that beautiful data be saved directly into an Excel file. This solution works really well if you are creating a new form. What if we have an existing form and we want it to write to Excel? Unfortunately, there... Continue Reading →
Implementing a custom Okta authentication error page in ReactJS
Updated May 5, 2020 to include Okta React library 3.0 The @okta/okta-react library is fantastic. It makes working with Okta authentication really easy in ReactJS. It helps streamline managing the user's authentication including their tokens. You don't even have to create a log in component on your app, users can be redirected to Okta to... Continue Reading →
Dear Me: Work Hard
This is part 2 of my Dear Me series, see the first here. While you're young, work hard, work a lot. Work/life balance is really important, but that balance can be what you decide it to be. Don't be afraid to work more than 40 hours. Work doesn't have to be "billable" work, or what... Continue Reading →
Stepping up your Git game
Git is a wonderful tool for managing your code. Many code repositories, like GitHub (obvi), BitBucket, Azure DevOps, and others, support git. We covered the basics of git in this post, review that before starting here. Fundamentally, knowing how to do the routine tasks of pull, push, commit, etc. is all you really need to... Continue Reading →
When Power Automate (Flow) can’t find your Microsoft Form
Sometimes it happens, Flow can't find a Form you created. I find this happens the most when you have just created a new form, however I've had other forms just not show up. I don't know why this happens. If you really want to resolve it, contact Microsoft support. I guess it's a caching/timing thing... Continue Reading →
Dear Me: To a younger, inexperienced me 20 years ago
I've been doing this thing for 20 years, what do I wish I knew back then? What might I want to do differently.
Inaugural Boston Digital Experience Platforms and Technologies Meetup is Jan 21st!
We are very excited to share the next evolution of the New England Web Content Management Group (NEWCMG). As we have seen in the industry, an organization's digital footprint should span further than only its website, it has to be more than a single CMS platform. It's only natural for this user group to follow... Continue Reading →
Getting started with Git
What is Git? The elevator pitch: Git is a repository for code and provides versioning with a capability to easily share and collaborate with others Maybe a little too simple, but at its core, that's what git is about. It provides developers a place to store their code with version control so that they can... Continue Reading →
Power Automate (Flow) to share communications into multiple Microsoft Teams at once
In my other blog post, I walked through the business case and options behind this flow. My goal in this post is to dive deeper into what the flow is and how it was built. Beauty, isn't it? For starters, the flow is an Automated flow using a SharePoint - When an item is created... Continue Reading →
Creating a communication process in Microsoft Teams with Power Automate (Flow)
Company-wide communications are tough to do well. Generally, most rely on mass emails that clutter inboxes of people who ignore them or even set up rules to remove them from their inbox. Larger companies have different office locations, which also have their share of communications which are probably more pertinent to their people than national... Continue Reading →
