I choose to take the FREE path. See where it gets me. J I think google’s android developer’s training page should be a good start. Sounds logical. So I will give it a whirl. Targetting to create a Hello World application.

ooh! it has nice choices!

Taking the new programmer path J

OK it brought me to Udacity. Hitting the back button now.

Ah this one looks promising.

so.. I have version 3.4.1.

Will go through the tutorial…

Kotlin for me. J

and there it is..

will dissect the files later. today I will just go ahead and run this as I have pledged only one hour a day for studying this.

Everything is taking forever to download!

And I end up with this :

I will do my best to document this journey I am taking.

So like any newbie, I install the tools, well, tool. Android Studio.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/ad/archive/2015/10/12/azure-rbac-is-ga.aspx.

Get the latest command-line tools for the GA RBAC commands: Azure PowerShell, Azure Command-Line Interface for Mac.

RBAC topic on azure.com has been refreshed too: http://aka.ms/azurerbac.

I was like.. halfway into making a hamburger style menu for a Windows 10 app then I found Jerry Nixon’s blog. LOL!

Anyways, here is what I have:

This would be your Mainpage

<Page
x:Class=”splitview.MainPage”
xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation”
xmlns:x=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml”
xmlns:local=”using:splitview”
xmlns:d=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008″
xmlns:mc=”http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006″
mc:Ignorable=”d”>
<StackPanel Orientation=”Horizontal”>
<SplitView x:Name=”svMine” CompactPaneLength=”45″DisplayMode=”CompactInline”>
<SplitView.Pane>
<StackPanel>
<StackPanel>
<Button x:Name=”btnView” Click=”btnView_Click” FontFamily=”Segoe MDL2 Assets” Content=””></Button >
</StackPanel>
<StackPanel>
<ListBox x:Name=”lstMenuItems”SelectionChanged=”lstMenuItems_SelectionChanged”>
<ListBoxItem x:Name=”opt1″ >
<StackPanel Orientation=”Horizontal”>
<TextBlock FontFamily=”Segoe MDL2 Assets”
Text=”” Tapped=”btnView_Click”></TextBlock>
<TextBlock Text=”Option 1″ Margin=”20,0,0,0″ />
</StackPanel>
</ListBoxItem>
<ListBoxItem x:Name=”opt2″ >
<StackPanel Orientation=”Horizontal”>
<TextBlock FontFamily=”Segoe MDL2 Assets” Text=””Tapped=”btnView_Click”></TextBlock>
<TextBlock Text=”Option 2″ Margin=”20,0,0,0″/>
</StackPanel>
</ListBoxItem>
</ListBox>
</StackPanel>
</StackPanel>
</SplitView.Pane>
<SplitView.Content>
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock x:Name=”txtselected”
Text=”Content 1″></TextBlock>
</StackPanel>
</SplitView.Content>
</SplitView>
</StackPanel>

</Page>

Then this is the code

public
sealed
partial
class
MainPage : Page

{
public MainPage()

{
this.InitializeComponent();

}
private
void btnView_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

{

svMine.IsPaneOpen = !svMine.IsPaneOpen;

}
private
void lstMenuItems_SelectionChanged(object sender,SelectionChangedEventArgs e)

{

txtselected.Text = lstMenuItems.SelectedIndex.ToString();

}

}

There are a lot of other details inside like where I got that Font/Character. It is embedded in VS15 actually.

Oh well..

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Well then.. here it goes after some digging it turned out to be not as simple.

Sharepoint personal sites are, well, sharepoint sites. And an admin can disable it, on a per user level. But as it turns out, it’s a bit more challenging (read:powershell) to disable for all users. Second challenge is if the personal site already has content, an admin would need to clean up the site before deleting.

Disabling personal site is by way of logging in as administrator then administering Sharepoint.

And then.. we click Manage User Permissions…

And uncheck Create Personal Site. That should disable it… for “Everyone”, with an empty personal site. So this would be best done for all users before they even learn that they have a personal site

At the moment I didn’t know how to do it, but knowing that OneDrive is basically a sharepoint doclib, how hard would it be to look for how to disable, or at least hide it.

Spin up your portal as the administrator, then go to the admin panel, and choose sharepoint to administer sharepoint.

Once on sharepoint, click on the settings and..

There you go.. OneDrive, hidden from view.

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/03/25/azure-vm-os-drive-limit-octupled/