Reading Time: 7 minutes. Year 2018 is drawing to an end, and it’s a good time for some reflection on what an interesting year it’s been! Personally, quite a few things have happened in the last 12 months – I moved to Canada, started a new/old job, became a father, spoke at awesome events, met a lot of cool people – just tons of awesome stuff. But personal things aside, 2018 has been an interesting and rewarding time to be writing this blog! 2018 was the year when the […]
Category: Rant
Sometimes, it’s good to let off some steam, and actually post a good, old-fashioned rant. Trying to keep them not too ranty, though.
I might post some of my rants on my other website – AntinJaMarin.net, which is actually Finnish for “Antti and Mari’s web” – so it’s a site I share with my wife. Yeah, I wonder how that works out in the long run!
HA! "Let off some steam, Bennet" - a classic.
The Scary Anatomy of a Microsoft License Fraud
Reading Time: 10 minutes. Tis the season for gifts, and lots of y’all might be thinking about giving out a digital gift. Maybe some of the more practical ones think about gifting someone a subscription of Office 365 – and why not, it’s a pretty useful present, right? However, you might want to think about where you get that subscription from. Don’t get the bootleg option – you might end up regretting it! I’ve stumbled upon a few online retailers, that sell Microsoft Office 365 (Microsoft’s subscription-based Office offering) […]
A cautionary tale of relying on the automatic backups in SharePoint Online
Reading Time: 10 minutes. So Microsoft keeps 14-day rolling backups of your SharePoint Online sites. That’s awesome – no need to take backups anymore, right? Not so fast. It’s not always so easy, and by just relying on these backups, you risk losing your data. Forever, I might add. This cautionary tale is about SharePoint Online, but I’d say you’ll need to take caution anytime you’re dealing with Microsoft’s automatic backups. The story starts with the client doing something unwise – a prime example would be them removing the […]
Materials for my SPS TC session: “Citizen Developer Tools are not just for Citizen Developers” now available!
Reading Time: 5 minutes. Whoops – this post comes quite late, as the session was a couple of weeks ago already. I recently had a session at SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities (SPS TC for short) and thought I’d share my materials and document my experiences. Oh, and do the shout-outs, since I referenced some and tools by some extremely talented people! Posts Related to “Materials for my SPS TC session: “Citizen Developer Tools are not just for Citizen Developers” now available!”:USA, 2: Traveling to Chicago O’Hare for Business and LeisureA […]
One web developer’s story about the downfall of web hosting (EIG / Site5 review) – part 2
Reading Time: 6 minutes. I was able to actually get most of the money EIG got from me back from them by opening a Visa claim. In this short post, I’ll try to explain how you can stop your money from being funneled to EIG’s greedy hands… Even if your hosting provider was taken over by them. What happened to Site5 (and others that were acquired/savaged by EIG)? I was a customer of Site5 pretty happily for a long time, until Endurance International Group (EIG) took them over, wrecked […]