Reading Time: 4 minutes. This post is about the Hacktoberfest event in 2018. I contributed to Microsoft’s repositories and a couple of other ones – and it was a lot of fun! Wow – I’m quite behind on this post, but thought it’s worthwhile to give credit where credit is due. Even if that credit comes woefully slowly! In 2018, Microsoft took part in DigitalOcean’s Hacktoberfest-challenge. Designed to encourage Open Source -contributions in a playful and gamified manner (in addition to being a lighthearted marketing campaign, of course), it’s a […]
Category: Hackathon
I’m posting my thoughts, announcements and publications related to different hackathons under this category.
Hackathon win: Resolving Managed Metadata Madness
Reading Time: 6 minutes. I won a hackathon! They had fun topics, it was a cool challenge, a well organized event, and had cool prizes. Since this is the first hackathon I ever took part in, I thought I’d post something about my experience and the solution(s) I figured out. Posts Related to “Hackathon win: Resolving Managed Metadata Madness”:SharePoint-Teams -integration using a tabA cautionary tale of relying on the automatic backups in SharePoint OnlineSharePoint Localization – a (somewhat) comprehensive how-to!
How to Resolve Managed Metadata Madness in SharePoint?
Reading Time: 3 minutes. Using Azure Functions and Cognitive Services Text API to enrich a Flow that fills Metadata for new items in a Modern SharePoint Team Site. That’s, in a nutshell, the solution I submitted to a recent online hackathon. Quite a mouthful, isn’t it? The whole solution (and a public vote, if you’re interested!) is available here: https://devpost.com/software/resolving-managed-metadata-madness-in-sharepoint – this blog post will describe the solution and the reasoning behind it. Preface Some time ago my manager asked me to take a few weeks off, since I had accrued […]