11 posts tagged Development.
A practical guide to separating developer concerns, CI, Continuous Delivery, and Deployment, how release manifests work as a master SBOM, and why domain-driven library design holds it all together.
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In November 2025, attackers compromised popular npm packages. The attack didn't exploit a bug. It exploited trust. What happened, why traditional defences fall short, and what you can do.
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I read and discussed the Shift Magazine article "Developers experience burnout, but 70% of them code on weekends" over the holidays. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the complexities of coding that most frequently overwhelm developers; rather, it is the administrative and organisational challen
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Using the Live Preview console application, we can set a file watcher that automatically renders the output as any changes occur to the source data or Liquid template.
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We can ensure that Liquid templates produce the correct result using a programmatic unit test. I have created an open source library that give Liquid unit test support.
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As data or file contents need to be mapped from a source to target format, we can use Azure services to process and map the data. This post is the first in a series about the Liquid language.
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Storing secrets inside configuration files is bad practice. In this example, we encrypt these values using the server machine key.
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When swapping between debugging using a workbench and deploying to a SharePoint developer tenant, we need to toggle the --ship flags. Also, we need to chain the Gulp commands. Just running gulp package-solution --ship does not perform the entire chain.
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Example using Altova MapForce to generate an XLST 2.0 mapping function and deploying this into an Azure logic app for use in an integration service.
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Azure Logic apps has powerful capabilities when joined with an integration account. This allows us to do advanced data mapping transformations. In this example, I will use Altova MapForce to design the mapping between the two file formats.
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As an update to "Ensuring single instance of event handlers", I wrote a plug-in to handle this as well. The point is, you could use off and on -but what if there are several handlers? You will risk overwriting other events on the item.
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