Elio Struyf is an independent Engineering Lead working for Valo Intranet, Blogger, and Speaker on a mission to share his tried-and-true wisdom with as many IT developers as possible.
December 21, 2020
Again we are at the end of the year and to start with the same words from my 2019 recap. WHAT A YEAR! If you read my 2019 recap, you know that it was a personal rollercoaster. At the beginning of 2020, I had a lot of energy and was pretty excited to make it a great year.
Read moreDecember 20, 2020
While developing the integration with Strava on our cycling club website, I wanted to use serverless functions to simplify the data retrieval from Strava. The website runs on Vercel, and if you’re going to test out your serverless functions locally, you will need to use Vercel its CLI. You can install the Vercel CLI by running the following command: npm i vercel -g.
Read moreDecember 18, 2020
One of the Doctor’s objectives, a documentation tool that converts markdown to SharePoint pages, was to make it usable cross-platform. Initially, I created this as an internal tool for Valo and would only be used on Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions. In the first release, I focussed on making the tool available to others like you and seeing if there was any interest in it.
Read moreDecember 16, 2020
I love static sites! In 2020 I have created ten production sites with various static site generators and a couple of POCs. My favorites are Hugo and Next.js. Doctor logo The story Internally in our team, we did the same. For our Valo partner/client documentation, we used mkdocs as our static site generator.
Read moreDecember 10, 2020
For the last two weeks, I have been working on my FrontMatter extension for Visual Studio Code. This extension helps others and myself make it easier to manage their static markdown pages' metadata. Some time ago, I received the question to enhance the tag and category experience. As when you have many tags or categories, it is not optimal to use the selectors/pickers VSCode provides you.
Read moreDecember 7, 2020
For one of our clients, we had a Microsoft support case open for a long time. On the client, its tenant, every time they created a new site collection, our Valo application customizers appeared automatically. Most of the time, this happened between 5-60 minutes. Internally in our Valo codebase, we do not have anything which triggers this automation.
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