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The 'Thor Effect': Harnessing Your Power

The ‘Thor Effect’ is a mystical experience full of Asgardian power and a result of the use of powerful hammer, called Mjolnir. This may be an accurate depiction of the ‘Thor Effect’ in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but looks a bit different in the workplace. So let’s compare….

Elizabeth Fleming by Elizabeth Fleming

Service Management In The Executive Suite – Part 5

This is part 5 of a running series on how to pull together key service management activities to support executive business decision making. Part 1 provided an overview of a 5-Step approach for pulling together actions and data for executive decisions. Part 2 addressed how to identify company services. Part 3 looked at how to apply service discovery and mapping, or “bill of materials” that support each of those services. In Part 4, we saw how to translate all this into service costs and unit costs. Here in Part 5 we’ll take a look at what to do with the information gleaned in the first 4 parts to develop a target IT strategy.

Randy Steinberg by Randy Steinberg

Single Sign-On in the Wild

A rash of rogue food orders with the company Deliveroo allowed hungry hackers to go on a booze and food binge in 2016—they logged in to customers’ accounts, changed delivery addresses, and ordered whatever they pleased.

Karsten Huttelmaier by Karsten Huttelmaier

User Experience Process & Strategy | Super Mario Brothers & Chaos Theory

We have experiences woven into technology ranging from 0-Dimensions involving the realm of sound, all the way to 3-Dimensional space in which overlaid objectivity heightens what we perceive.

Understanding these experiences as humans intertwined into the realm of technology, involves a host of various sciences and areas of thought.

This is not to say that other areas of a User Centered Strategy are not important, but the gravity of doing a User Persona and a User Journey can be positively felt through out a project as it impacts who the intended use encapsulates.  Likewise the positive impact of group consensus over UI Layout, and the effectiveness of approved visual language kindles what is typically referred to as fuzzy-design-logic into clarity.

Damon Sanchez by Damon Sanchez

React in SharePoint

Lately I’ve been playing with ReactJS, and was looking for a way to render content in SharePoint using React. I really like React because you can easily create interactive UIs declaratively. You design simple views for each state in your application, and React will efficiently update and render the correct components when your data changes.

Zavier Sanders by Zavier Sanders

Introducing the SharePoint Framework (SPFX)

The SharePoint Framework is a Page and Part model that enables full support for client-side development and open source tools. It also easily integrates with Microsoft graph. The SharePoint Framework works for both SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online.

Zavier Sanders by Zavier Sanders

Custom SharePoint Form Using Office UI Fabric and Angular

Building custom and fully interactive forms for SharePoint can often be complex. Using AngularJS with Office UI Fabric is a great way to build responsive and dynamic forms that have the same look and feel of Office and SharePoint.

Zavier Sanders by Zavier Sanders

ASP.NET Core 1.0 - Quick Look at RAZOR Views new Tag Helpers

Of the many features that are being revealed through the ASP.NET 5 RC's and other announcements, one of the first things that peeked my interest were the updates to RAZOR views with the addition of tag helpers.  The cool thing about these new tag helpers is, it allows the developer to create Razor views that look more like HTML and less like C#.

Sam Figie by Sam Figie