Hi everyone, wherever you are, I'm Paul Jacob-Elly speaking to you from Freiburg in southern Germany, but I'm going to talk to you about the project in Uganda at the Solok Scheme where I worked for 10 years until 2012. I've just got the instructions for time, so I have to go fast to give you a flavour of how the project works and please ask questions later and I can also point you in the direction for more information should you need it. Right, the background to SPGS. You see those two photos there? The top one is a three-year-old hybrid eucalypt plantation growing for transmission poles in Uganda. The interesting thing there is the entrepreneur knew nothing about forestry when he started before we supported him. The bottom slide is a community association that the project supported growing pines, pines-carabia there, about 2.5 years old, in rotation of course about 15 to 20 years. Right, the background is that it won't be a surprise to those familiar working in Africa. The rampant deforestation, timber shortage is predicted and there's been heavy reliance on one field of course. The first growing economy all needs timber, so there was a huge shortage predicted and this project was looking and seeking to encourage the private sector to invest in new planting. And it assumed there was small growers who would need financial and technical assistance. Now the project has been funded by the European Union since it started in 2004. It's invested $24 million to date with a further $16 million pledged in the next four years. The project supports, as you can tell from its name, longer rotations of timber and poles. Right, very quickly how does the project work? It's a combination of establishment grants and technical and business support. The establishment grants on the first side, the project pays 50% of the establishment costs, which at the time was about $425, so the full establishment cost then was $800 a day. But the key thing really is that the grants came in performance based and the standards were clearly written into the contracts. For example you had to have 80% survival when the programme staff visited after three months. The payment was split into three tranches, so we held back the second checks until a few months to make sure to encourage the people to maintain their crops, so quality is the key. But no funds paid up front, the grants were only paid in retrospect, so the entrepreneurs had to start with their own money. We set a minimum of 25 hectares for application, but you could join together to get to that minimum. On the technical side, the business side, we had a very strong extension team, which we developed the first two years with keen young graduates to come down to South Africa and Swaziland, showed them the best practices, and also we took some of the entrepreneurs down there too to give them the vision of how a commercial forest sector looks. We ran some very practical training courses ourselves and the team, because it was very difficult to find that support outside. We published some very practical guidelines after a number of years, which had lots of illustrations of good and bad practices that went down very well. And interesting, we developed an accreditation system for nurseries and contractors. The demand came from the growers themselves, interestingly, so that's been rather successful in building SMEs in the country. And then finally, we supported the development of a timber growers association, knowing that it was going to be important in the future beyond the project. And then lastly, the land. Many people started on government land, getting permits for planting, but increasingly they came on private land. Right, theory of change. Here we are, theory of change. We had identified three key areas, three key assumptions. First of all, that the right incentives will attract the private sector to invest. Secondly, rural livelihoods will be improved. And thirdly, that degraded land will be restored. Now on the basis of those three, the results of 50,000 hectares established to date. In the scheme, 50,000 hectares, that's about 450 contracted clients. It's been oversubscribed, and the key thing is that beyond the grant, there's another 30,000 hectares being planted, people often coming for technical advice, not just the finance. On the rural livelihoods, I think another success story, really 5,000 over 5,000 rural jobs created, more than 1,400 people trained on the courses. There's benefits to the lot of the villages with the corporate, social responsibility of the bigger companies. And in terms of capacity building of SMEs, we've seen we've got 42 certified nurseries in Uganda now, and 36 small contracting companies going. And then the third one, the degraded land, well, forest reserves which were degraded have been replanted, and the trees because their quality and fast growing are obviously storing lots of carbon. So I think very positive results there. And in addition, the Solow scheme has raised the profile of forestry people talking about investing in trees as a pension for their children. It shows you it's really getting the message across. And it's attracting interest from other African countries. We've been last year advising the World Bank, setting a scheme up in Mozambique. There's interest in Ghana and in other countries in Africa too on this. Right, barriers and risks. Number one was a challenge for the institutional buy-in. It's been mentioned already a few times. It's been a challenge getting the buy-in despite the pro-private sector policies we've seen in these countries. Often there is a resistance to change. Number two, sustainability is an issue because it's grant led to projects. Obviously it depends on overseas development assistant, the donors to maintain it. Thirdly is the forestry's big bone of contention, which is the long rotations. But what we've strongly believed is that these risks can be managed by good planning and management. And these risks, I think we're going to talk a bit later, are just growing the trees, but in particular the markets for those crops. Right, working with Unique in many countries in the last couple of years, we're seeing that there's a very poor understanding of the value chain, particularly amongst the small growers. I mean here knowledge of product specification, knowledge of quality. For instance, knowing the markets, knowing the supply and demand forecasts for products is so important. We preach this site species market approach where it's not just planting trees, but it's getting the market intelligence before you plant the trees. And you can then apply the models that now exist in many growth and economic models to see if your returns are acceptable for a particular product. So a much more business-like approach to planting even for small, medium growers. Financing, SPGS obviously proves that conditional grants supporting small, medium growers can work. You might say it's unsustainable because of the grant focus, but it actually could be considered very cost-effective from the government's point of view given that it's attracted 50% of the input is coming from the private sector. So it's a cost-effective way of a country getting a core plantation establishment which is needed to support the economy. Concessional financing, particularly soft loans, have been well considered right at the beginning, but the financial institutions didn't want to touch it. So eventually we decided to go down the ground route. And just interesting, those of you who might not know, there is a study underway in Kenya looking at a revolving tree fund for small, medium growers funded by DFID and the Nature Conservancy. So that's going to be interesting to follow. And those of you who might not know, the problem obviously with forestry is that banks have little experience quite often, and they consider it high-risk, particularly for the long-term nature. So we think the trees go very fast in the tropics. Right, conclusions last slide. Solox scheme has achieved good results on the ground. It's proved a sort of very strong PPP, public-private partnership. It can work if it's carefully planned and well managed. And the sort of lessons from SPGS for others, I think, is it took this commercial approach, which was somewhat unusual for small, medium growers, but it certainly worked. And it focused on the best practices, best practices for growth and quality. So even for, you know, we preach in for communities, small growers, this is very important. We believe that the approach will have long-term benefits for the sector, but only if there is more support on the value chains and market side. We've seen this in many countries. And finally, the role of the Timbergrowers Association are very important. I think we will discuss that a bit later. Right, thank you. That's me finished. I think in time, and there is an applause icon on the list of icons I've seen. Thank you.


November 8, 1895 German physicist Wilhelm Rinken is testing out an early kind of vacuum tube in his lab when he notices something strange. A ghostly light from the tube seems to pass right through opaque objects of differing densities, illuminating what lay inside. It was a new kind of electromagnetic radiation never seen before. He tested his new device on his wife's hand over a photography plate. When she saw the world's first X-ray, she reportedly said, I have seen my death. A whole new world was instantly illuminated. Rinken's discovery immediately transformed medicine. And these X-ray visions quickly became a cultural phenomenon. So miraculous and alien, X-rays even became one of the world's first superpowers. This amazing stranger, Superman, empowered with X-ray vision. But in reality, X-rays were the key to unlocking one of the greatest scientific mysteries of the age. London, 1952 Scientists raced to solve the structure of a mysterious molecule. DNA Rosalind Franklin, a master of a new technique called X-ray crystallography photograph DNA for the very first time. But unbeknownst to her, the photograph was shared with James Watson and Francis Crick, her competitors. Careful study of Photo 51 enabled Watson and Crick to deduce the structure and function of DNA. Soon they burst into a local pub and declared they had discovered the secret of life. That discovery spawned a revolution and promised tremendous breakthroughs. But despite incredible progress, the promise remains unfulfilled. We need a new breed of X-ray visionaries who can save lives, help treat chronic pain without addiction and advance the future of energy. It was exactly like falling in love. When Nicole Zeig was 16, she injured her back. Her doctor prescribed opioid pain pills. It took care of the pain, but then a new problem developed. That first time I took that pill, I was instantly addicted. It provided everything in my life that some people would say higher power or true love or something would provide. Zeig became one of the over 2 million people dealing with substance abuse from prescription opioids. It took me over 8 years to get off of the pills. I had four abortions and that was really hard on me and I endangered my life multiple times.  I really, really hurt them. And what happens when those prescriptions run out? Attics turn to the only available opioid they can get their hands on, heroin. I was seeking pain relief, not getting high.  People like Nicole are hoping for a new wonder drug to find relief without the threat of addiction. But we've reached the limits of current X-ray technology. So life is a dynamic, it's not a static picture. And what we want to get is actually a movie of biomolecules at work. But there's one fundamental problem, X-rays damage biomolecules. Without a clear picture, scientists are effectively left in the dark, unable to address the problem. But researchers at ASU are racing to bring a powerful new tool to bear, the X-ray free electron laser. It's illuminating secrets from deep inside the brain for the first time. So the X-ray laser gives you very fast time resolution and it avoids radiation damage. We get the information we want first before we blow up the sample. The X-FEL repurposes a particle accelerator to create the world's most powerful X-ray beam. This allows scientists to see deeper than ever before. ASU researcher Petra Fromm is pioneering this innovative new field of study. We let little crystals which only contain hundreds of molecules instead of trillions fly at room temperature in their native environment through the beam and then essentially get snapshots of the molecules in action. It makes the solving protein crystal structures getting bigger and much more efficient. Using the X-FEL, researchers have now seen for the first time how opioids bind to receptors in the brain. This could enable the development of a new class of drugs that could deal with pain without euphoric side effects. You want to see if we can inhibit this receptor so that the drugs cannot bind anymore. Developing drugs which can block the receptor without making you dependent, overcoming this drug abuse. And essentially then the patients could be more or less cured. The X-FEL also brings us closer to glimpsing the heart of one of nature's greatest mysteries, the mechanics of photosynthesis. Every day the sun produces enough energy to power the world many times over, but there's no way to store it. Artificial photosynthesis would create the possibility of near-limitless energy generation and storage. Photosynthesis makes possible life on earth. It splits water to make the oxygen that keeps living things all alive. If we would know how plants can do it, then we could build artificial systems which are as efficient as nature but as stable as a man-made system. The X-FEL may one day help us reach our goal of creating molecular movies. We will finally see nature in action on the atomic scale. This groundbreaking approach is the focus of ASU's John Spence. Our aim is to make molecular movies of the machines in living things which have a job to do. And we want to see how they work. So in the case of photosynthesis, the sunlight falling on a leaf, you extract the molecule from the leaf that actually does the photosynthesis. With any conventional method, you cannot get this movie of the molecule in action because you undo what you do with the light with the X-Red Amp. To start this cycle of photosynthesis, we shine light on them briefly. And then we can get the picture of the molecule in action. And we have just two years ago published the very first snapshot of the so-called double excited states. And now we want to get the complete movie of the motorsplitting process. Richard Feynman once said that all life on Earth can be reduced to the jiggling and wiggling of atoms. So we want to see those wiggles, you know, the wigglings that correspond to life. But there are major obstacles associated with the X-FEL. There's only a few in the world that are enormous. They cost about $100 million a year to operate. So it takes between one and two years of waiting to get your one day actually on the facility. As we know from computing, where if you only had three computers in the world, you wouldn't get much computing done. Researchers at ASU, such as William Graves, have a revolutionary solution. Using new technology, they can shrink the X-FEL and create a compact version that could fit into a lab. By combining modern laser technology and modern accelerator technology, what we want to do is allow you at a cost 100 times less to be able to do the same science. Even the first simplified machine that we'll build can have a tremendous impact on medical imaging. Currently X-rays are primarily used to image bone versus soft tissue. We can't use X-rays to look at soft tissue injuries or plaques and arteries or cancerous cells versus healthy cells. And so we think we can have a really revolutionary impact on medical imaging by using this so-called phase contrast imaging that allows us to see differences in soft tissue. We think it's going to be in many aspects better than the bigger machine. We think it will have an enormous scientific impact. ASU seeks to be the world's first institution with a compact X-ray-free electron laser. Once built, researchers will have the power of an X-FEL at their fingertips. The CXFEL, combined with the innovation of serial femtosecond crystallography, will exponentially accelerate drug and energy research. Major breakthroughs in fields like health and energy won't be far behind. We are the X-ray visionaries who want to see the world like it's never been seen before. We are the trailblazers. We have the technology to open up unlimited vistas. Are you ready to change the world?


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Hey, I'm Andrew Connell. This video is one of the chapters from the free starter bundle of my Mastering the SharePoint Framework course by Voytanus. You can find the other free videos from the starter bundle that are listed in the description below. Now that course contains over 35 hours of in-depth explanation and instructor-led demos all by me that teaches you everything you need to know about the SharePoint Framework or SPFX and to become a master at it. I offer the course in three different bundles. The starter bundle, that's everything I've already mentioned, as well as two other bundles, the fundamentals bundle and the ultimate bundle. Each bundle contains more content than the previous bundle and some additional resources. You can learn more about the course on my site that's linked here as well as linked in the notes in the description below. Now with the context set, enjoy the rest of this chapter. Hi, welcome to my course on extending and creating customizations for SharePoint using the SharePoint Framework. Now I want to take a minute to first just welcome you to my course, explain what this course is and then we'll dive into what you're going to find within this course. My goal in this course is to teach you what you'll need to know not only to be productive at your job but to master the SharePoint Framework. Now in this first chapter, I'm going to introduce you to the course so you know what you can expect. So let's start with who this course is for. You may be wondering who I built this course for and the student that I have in mind when building this course are two different kinds of web developers. This includes developers with lots to a little bit of traditional SharePoint development experience. The types of developers who build farm solutions, sandbox solutions, SharePoint hosted add-ins, provider hosted add-ins or developers who have used tools like SharePoint Designer to write client-side solutions. I'm also thinking about developers with experience building client-side solutions using JavaScript. Now you may not have experience developing for SharePoint in the past and that's okay. The SharePoint Framework involves creating client-side components for SharePoint using the technologies that you're familiar with like JavaScript and CSS. It'll help to know some stuff about SharePoint but I'm getting ahead of myself because let's just start by explaining what this chapter is all about. In this chapter I'm going to start by introducing you to the different variants of this course. Now I've packaged this course into three different bundles. Right now you're watching the free starter bundle that includes the first few chapters and there are two more bundles that I'll cover in another lesson in this chapter. They cover the different aspects of the SharePoint Framework. Now of course you also might want to get an idea of everything that's in the course. So before you wrap this chapter up make sure you stop by this lesson so that you can see what topics are covered in the course. Now I'll go chapter by chapter and explain what you'll get out of each one of these different chapters. Next I want to explain how you can get the most out of this course in all the associated resources that I offer like office hours, mastermind groups for discussions and how to ask questions throughout the time of your taking this course. And before I wrap this introductory lesson up let's talk about what you need to be successful in this course. Now of course nothing is required. You could just sit back and watch these videos but if you want to repeat any of the things that I show you in the course you'll need to have a few things on your side of the screen. You're going to need to have a SharePoint environment in order to fully test and build components that you're going to be working on. And I suggest you have a Microsoft 365 developer tenant in a local developer environment. We'll get to that later. Now sure SharePoint framework is supported on some on-premises SharePoint deployments but well we're going to get more to that in a little bit later. The other two chapters in the free startup model you're currently watching cover what environments support a SharePoint framework and what you need to develop for each one of them in a lot more detail. In addition to a SharePoint environment while it's not required it would help if you had some understanding of some of the core concepts in SharePoint.  It will help quite a bit if you know what these things are but it's not exactly required. Now I'm not going to cover these in the course as they're well covered throughout the SharePoint documentation or if you just take a minute into a simple Google search. Now as I said earlier you're also going to need a developer environment. Now any relatively modern desktop or laptop that you use to build web apps is going to work. All you're doing is JavaScript based development with a text editor running some tools. You don't need much to really accomplish these different tasks. Don't worry about setting it up right now. I've got a whole chapter that's dedicated to that topic later in this free starter bundle so just sit tight. Last but certainly not least you really should have some sort of a web developer background. Ideally you've got some experience with JavaScript, TypeScript or building client-side web applications and if not, don't worry. I want this course to also speak to those traditional SharePoint developers who I know spend more time server-side than they do client-side. So I've got you guys covered as well. Now that's it. You don't need much to work with the SharePoint framework and this lesson is really served as an introductory or overview for this entire chapter.  Okay now that's going to wrap up my brief introduction to the course. Now in the next lesson I want to introduce myself as we'll be spending a lot of time together as you make your way throughout my course. Now if you already know me, well feel free to skip to the next lesson and jump straight into the discussion on the course bundles and the chapter list. So I'll see you in the next lesson. Hello and welcome back. In this lesson I want to introduce myself. We're going to spend quite a bit of time together so I think it's best if you know who I am. My name is Andrew Connell and I'm a web developer from St. John's, Florida who loves to learn new things in tech and help others learn them as well. Microsoft has recognized me every year since 2005 with their annual MVP award specifically in the area of office development. I've been teaching for over 15 years in just about every way you can think of. During most of that time I focused on enterprise platforms such as things like Microsoft.net framework, the office platform, SharePoint, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online, you name it. The one thing that's been constant over that time is I've primarily focused on working with web technologies. And in addition I'm also a co-host of a podcast called the Microsoft Cloud Show. We've been going strong publishing weekly episodes since October of 2013. And this is where you can hear me talk about Microsoft Cloud related topics including SharePoint, Office 365, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure and other related things. Now I'm the course author and the founder of Voitanos and I originally authored and published this course starting in 2017 but I kept building it up until I completed it in the summer of 2020. So you're probably wondering why should you let me teach you the SharePoint framework? I have a lot of experience with SharePoint and teaching SharePoint development and I've been living in SharePoint development since September of 2003 and I've been teaching since 2006. Trust me, that's a long time. And when it comes to the SharePoint framework I've been involved in it in working with Microsoft even before they released the very first private betas to customers and vendors. So why should you trust me? Well look, the best way to answer that is to look at what others have said about the course. The sessions and the workshops I've presented at conferences across the globe and the fact that Microsoft has been hiring me for many years to write and publish developer training materials that you can find on the Microsoft learning site. This includes topics like Azure, Active Directory, Microsoft Identity, Microsoft Graph, Office Add-ins, Microsoft Teams and you guessed it, SharePoint. Okay, with the introductions out of the way, let's move on to the next lesson where I'll explain the different course bundles and explain what you'll find in each one. So I'll see you in the next lesson. Hello and welcome back. In this lesson, allow me to explain how I've structured this course, packaged the content up into three different bundles and what tools are available to you when you're taking this course. Now, this course is broken up into three different bundles and each bundle gets bigger, contains more content and adds additional interaction and learning opportunities. So when you enroll in one bundle, you get everything in all the downstream bundles. Now, what do I mean by that? If you enroll in the starter bundle, you only get access to the content and the resources that are included in that starter bundle. But the fundamentals bundle, that has a lot more chapters, including more learning resources and includes everything that not only fundamentals has but also everything in the starter bundle. But if you also enroll in the ultimate bundle, you get even more content, demos, learning resources in addition to everything in fundamentals and starter. Now, let's look at each of these in a little more depth and I'm going to start with an overview of each one and then discuss what topics are covered in each one of the different bundles. So let's start with the starter bundle, which I've said is entirely free. It's what you're watching right now. Now, this bundle includes the first few chapters, this introductory chapter and a couple more chapters that explain what the SharePoint framework is and how to get your development environment configured to build customizations that leverage the SharePoint framework, including some demos showing you how to do this. Now, I'm giving this starter bundle away for free, 100% free, so you can see what you're getting yourself into before you're committing yourself to actually purchasing the course and enrolling. Okay, but I'm also doing it because I want to make it easy so that you can see what the course style and quality will be like before you buy it.  Now, next up is the fundamentals bundle. This bundle includes everything that you get in the free starter bundle, but it also includes a lot more content, like 16 more chapters and more than 17 additional hours of instruction on top of what's in the starter bundle. Now, I created the fundamentals bundle for those developers who want to learn just enough about the SharePoint framework to be productive at your job. Maybe you just need to learn how to create client-side web parts with custom property panes, using a popular web framework like React and style it up to make it look and feel the same as SharePoint. As any developer who's created something for SharePoint will attest to, you'll also need to know how to do simple crud-based operations against SharePoint lists, libraries, and other popular sources like Microsoft Graph. And finally, you'll also need to know how to package up your customizations and learn how to deploy and manage them when in your day-to-day work. Now, if that's all you need, the fundamentals bundles got you covered. Now, let's talk a little bit about some of the topics that are included in the fundamentals bundle. What kinds of things do I cover in the fundamentals bundle? Now, what you see here is a big list of all the chapters that are currently in the fundamentals bundle. So let me just briefly run through these so you know what's in here. Your first SharePoint framework project, we're going to create a SharePoint framework project and walk through the process of what it's like to create it, looking at exploring what the the Yeoman Generator is actually building for us, what the scaffolding looks like, what all the folders and files are. We're going to walk through all of that stuff. And instead of rebuilding projects over and over throughout the course, because the SharePoint framework is like an evergreen model that is always changing or is frequently changing with each update, I'm not going to recreate every single project from scratch in every single chapter. And instead, I'm going to refer back to this first chapter in the fundamentals bundle so that you can see what the current process is of creating a project and what it looks like using the most current version of the SharePoint framework generator. You don't know what a generator is, that's okay. We're going to talk about it in this starter bundle in another chapter. Then we're going to dig into the SharePoint framework, just getting our hands a little bit more dirty. And then we're going to start building some real stuff. We've got a chapter on building client-side web parts and how to customize them, how to build property panes for client-side web parts so we can modify the public properties on them, how to leverage external files and libraries, like maybe you want to use a date-time formatting library like Datafn or MomentJS, two very popular libraries. What's the best way to do that? I'm going to show you how to do that in that chapter. We're going to look at SharePoint framework extensions, which gives us a way to extend the user interface and listen libraries as well as every single page in SharePoint. We're going to talk about how to do some common debugging and logging techniques inside the SharePoint framework, how to create SharePoint assets using the feature framework, what the deployment story looks like. So if I'm deploying to on-prem, if I'm deploying to SharePoint online, what are my options? Can I use Azure, CVNs, et cetera? We're going to go through all that. How do we upgrade and version our solutions? It's another big topic that you need to know about. It's not as straightforward as you may think it is of just uploading a new project. You need to understand all the different versions that are there. We're going to talk about how to leverage JQuery in our projects, how to leverage React in our projects, how to brand and style and theme our components so that they look like the rest of SharePoint. And then I've got chapters on doing things with data access. So working with the SP HTTP client, working with Microsoft Graph, and also working with how to call external REST APIs that are either secured or just anonymous APIs as well. So I'll show you how to do all of that stuff inside of the fundamentals bundle. It's quite a lot. Sounds like a lot, doesn't it? Well, it is. It's over 17 hours worth of lecture and demos. But maybe you want more. What if you want to interact with your fellow students and get access to interactive discussions that we have and get even more topics covered by the course? Well, that's where the ultimate bundle is going to come in. This contains the most content, tools, and offers the most value. This course includes everything that you're going to find in the fundamentals bundle and the free bundles but a whole lot more. So like what? Well, in addition to 13 more chapters of explanation and demos that span over 14 hours, the ultimate bundle includes a lot more content and it covers a lot of things to make you a master at working with the SharePoint framework from learning how to work with a team environment, how to add automated testing to your components, calling third-party services, and even creating your own external services and reusable libraries. You're also going to learn some tips and tricks as well as additional options for customizing and configuring your developer environment. They're going to go beyond the basic install node, yomen, gulp, generator, and start creating web parts. I'm going to show you how to do some additional customization stuff. So like what? Well, let's get a little bit more specific. Here's a list of all the topics that you're going to find in the ultimate bundle, and there's a lot. We're going to start off with a chapter on client-side web parts, more advanced scenarios like using them in single-page apps, Microsoft Teams, and other options, how to create custom property controls for our property panes, how to connect our web parts with other SharePoint framework components using dynamic data, how to work with Angular in SharePoint framework solutions, how to add automated testing to our SharePoint framework solutions, and then I've got a couple DevOps opportunities as well. For example, how to monitor, add monitoring and telemetry to your SharePoint framework components using Azure Application Insights, and then also on the DevOps option or the DevOps theme, we're going to look at CINCD, how to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment, using either two very popular tools, Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions. I'm also going to show you how to do localization with SharePoint framework components, how to work in a team-based environment so there's a lot of people on your team and you're all working on the same project, how to best leverage that, and then we'll look at how to customize your SharePoint developer environment in your projects. I'm going to show you how to customize Gulp, which is the task runner that we have and how to do some really cool things with that. And then also in the Webpack chapter, it's going to go in and show you a lot more stuff there on how to customize Webpack. So for example, we could do some really interesting stuff like let's make sure that our source maps, our JavaScript source maps, from when we compiled our TypeScript down to JavaScript, let's make sure that those things get included in the bundle so when they're deployed, we can easily debug our solutions. So I'm going to show you how to do all of that kind of stuff inside of the Ultimate Bundle. And if you want to see the specifics of what's in each one of these chapters, not just in the Ultimate Bundle, but also in the Fundamentals Bundle, you'll find the overview of each one of the chapters listed on the homepage of the website for this course on the voidtonos.io website. So you see what I mean when I say the Ultimate Bundle will put you well in your way to mastering the SharePoint framework? Well, that's not all that you get within the Ultimate Bundle. But that's not all. Subscribers of the Ultimate Bundle, they also get access to a student-only mastermind group, regular online office hours where you can submit questions and we can discuss your topics with fellow students. I'm going to explain these benefits in greater depth in the next lesson. But regardless of the subscription bundle that you select, either the starter bundle, the fundamentals bundle, or the Ultimate Bundle, all subscribers will get all future updates in addition to the bundle that you subscribe to for free. So that means if Microsoft decides to make a change to the SharePoint framework that updates dependencies, you'll get access to the updated videos and content as well as notifications that I've updated the course. The course is evergreen. And that means they're going to get updated as necessary. Now, you might be saying to yourself, I'm not sure if I want fundamentals or Ultimate. I wish I could see the chapters that are only available in the Ultimate Bundle. Fair enough. If you head over to the page on the Voitanus website for the course, you'll find the introductory overview video for each chapter freely available that you can watch. That's going to allow you to kind of test and see, you know, what's covered in that chapter and is that something that I want? All those are available on the site. Now, if you still aren't sure, don't worry. Send me an email and I'll get you sorted and explain your questions. But maybe you want to start small and not jump straight into the Ultimate Bundle. But don't worry. You can always upgrade from Fundamentals Bundle to the Ultimate Bundle at a later date at any time. The cost of the upgrade is just the difference in the price between the two bundles. And sometimes I run discounts. In other words, if you decide to get the Ultimate Bundle today or if you decide to get the Fundamentals Bundle today and upgrade the Ultimate Bundle in two months, it's going to cost the exact same amount, either one. Okay, so that wraps up my overview on the different course bundles as well as what topics that you're going to find in each one of these lessons. So in the next lesson, I'm going to switch topics and explain how I've structured the course as well as how you can get the most out of this course. So I'll see you in the next lesson. Hello and welcome back. I'm glad you're sticking with me. Okay, in this lesson, I want to switch topics and I want to explain how I've structured this course as well as how you can get the most out of this course. Once you subscribe to any of the course bundles, including the starter subscription bundle, I want to ensure that you know how to get the most value out of your investment. And let's take a few minutes to see how things are organized. Now let's start with the structure of the course. Most courses group videos and articles into a collection. Some companies call these modules, but the term module is a real thing in client-side development. So I'm going to refer to each of the individual videos as a lesson. And I'm going to group multiple lessons together into a chapter. So right now what you're doing is you're watching the lesson, how to get the most out of this course. And that's in the chapter number one, which is the course introduction and the overview. Now periodically, technologies are updated and as Microsoft updates the SharePoint framework with improvements or fixes or some new technique comes out, I'm going to update this course. And this might involve replacing an existing lesson or adding a brand new lesson. Now to make things easy to find out what's new, since you last watched the course, I've got this detailed change log and this way that you'll be able to see what's changed with the course. And if there's significant changes or a lot of changes, this lesson will also get updated to have additional video content that explains those different details. Now customers who subscribe to any of the three bundles will receive an email when the course is updated, so you don't have to remember to come back and check periodically. Just make sure you don't unsubscribe because then I can't email you. Now the current technology landscape, especially for web developers, is a constantly changing and updating world. Now this course makes use of a lot of client-side and web dev technologies. Different tools, different editors, frameworks, libraries. There are a lot of different versions and combinations that you can have in your environment. Now if there's a specific version or a tool that's important to beat the topic being covered, refer to the lesson notes for the most up-to-date and accurate guidance. The lesson videos are also going to be updated if it's necessary to actually re-record the video. Now each lesson may include additional notes like references to things covered in the course. All links mentioned in the course videos can be found under the lesson notes under the video. Some lessons will include additional references. Now students of the fundamentals and the ultimate bundles will have access to a copy of all the demos shown within that lesson. You can find this download made available as a zip file on the home page of the course bundle that you're watching. That's the page that contains a list of all the chapters in the course bundle once you've logged into your account. The demo projects are organized by chapter, so within each chapter folder, you'll find a copy of the demo project as it was created in the lesson video. But in addition, if there's a more recent version of the SharePoint framework available, you'll also find the same project recreated with the latest version of the SharePoint framework. And why do I do this? Not all lessons need to be re-recorded every time Microsoft releases a new version of the SharePoint framework. Some changes, they can be conveyed in the lesson notes, but I wanted to ensure that you'd have a version of the demo that works today using the latest version of the available SharePoint framework. Now, what if you have a question when you're watching a lesson or you need some extra help if you need something in addition to the course? So first and foremost, please don't email me or Voitanos questions about topics that we cover in the course. If you've got an issue with your access, a billing issue or issues with the website, sure, email us. If it's an individual thing that's specific to you, definitely email us. But don't send us questions via email about topics. I get a ton of unsolicited questions every day, and I just can't answer them and stay on top of them. And plus, one-on-one discussions, they don't help anyone else. Look, cards on the table, if you email me or Voitanos a technical question or something about a topic in the course, I'm going to instead politely direct you to the following options I made available to you to get your questions answered. Look, I set multiple blocks of time each week aside to review questions submitted using these different options that I provide you. All the lessons in all the bundles contain a commenting feature below the lesson notes. So you've got the video, lesson notes, and then commenting feature. Scroll down on this lesson you're watching right now to see the historical comments. And if your question is about a specific topic that's discussed in the lesson, this is really the best place to post it. And this is true even for the lessons in this free starter bundle. But what if you need more help or you want advice on a project? Now, that's really where the ultimate bundle comes into as I've got a couple different options just for you. First, I host regular live office hour sessions every month. All ultimate bundles of students will receive an email invitation to the next online office hour session where I'll discuss the latest news related to the SharePoint framework and I'll also answer your questions or we'll have a discussion on some stuff. All sessions are recorded for those who can't attend live and I'm sharing them in a special chapter within the ultimate bundle. Now, the second benefit that I offer the ultimate bundle students, you all have access to a private student only mastermind group. Any student of the ultimate bundle can request access to the mastermind group and ask their questions. And this way you get input not just from me but from your peers so you get the perspective of multiple people. Okay, that concludes the discussion on how you can get the most out of this course and what I wanted to cover in this opening chapter. My goal in this chapter was to introduce you to the course to your instructor, that's me, show you how to get around the course on this site and how to get the most out of your investment. So enough with the introduction, let's get started and let's jump into the first real chapter on the SharePoint framework. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please click that thumbs up and the big red subscribe button below to get more of my SharePoint framework educational content as I publish it. And this video is one of the chapters from the free starter bundle of my Mastering the SharePoint framework course by Vojtanos and you can find the other free videos from the starter bundle that are listed in the description below. That course contains over 35 hours of in-depth explanation and instructor led demos teaching you everything about the SharePoint framework to become a master. I offer this course in three different bundles the starter bundle that is this video was part of as well as the fundamentals bundle and the ultimate bundle. Each of these bundles contains more content than the previous bundle and some additional resources like mastermind groups and places in regularly scheduled office hours. You can learn more about the course on our site that I've linked here or by clicking the link in the description below the video.


Alrighty, I have a mini construction update for you guys today, so nothing going on with Moose Horn Falls just yet, we'll keep an eye on that, again those things go up so quick that I could totally see them starting it in spring and having it ready. With that being said, a lot of the Howie and Haunt stuff is done and Winterfest Prep is well on the way, Behemoth is all taken apart and wrapped up for the season, so that's really cool, backlit sunk coaster is not taken apart, don't worry that doesn't mean anything, that's just the process of taking apart coasters. Again Winterfest Prep is well on the way, there is some new things coming for Winterfest this year, nothing exciting don't worry, but 2024 is definitely going to be a really good Winterfest season from what I'm hearing. The setup for the Snowflake Lake is coming along nicely, the Santa Clause on top of front gate is all set up, Cool Yule is also being set up, that's a really big project in itself, but yeah definitely this ice skating rink is the biggest project under Canada's Wonderlands belt for Winterfest, Vortex is slowly being taken apart as you see here, I included all this because I thought you guys would think it's cool, hope you find it cool. I have been asked previously to upload my entire drone footage even without me talking because some of you enjoy looking at the park, some areas that I don't show because I do film the whole park when I fly, so if you're interested in that comment down below and I can just upload raw footage with some music for you guys to just look around yourselves because sometimes I do miss things as well, so as you see there Leviathan isn't taken apart yet but here goes the statue, they're getting ready to remove the statue for one of those Winterfest shows, so I always find that kind of funny. For some reason I did not film this on my drone, I only took a picture, I swore I filmed it because it's the main subject of this video, but there is a construction trailer now in behind Kingswood area, so they moved one of the ones by Action Theater over to the Kingswood area and it is placed pretty conveniently outside of the Kingswood area next to the Winterfest storage building now, it used to be a school event building, I still think they use it sometimes, but it's a Winterfest tree storage building, but yeah it's stored there, doesn't necessarily mean anything but I thought that was really interesting and that I would share it in a video for you guys, but yeah thanks so much for watching Winterfest starts November 17th, I'm really excited for it and yeah we're getting there guys, time seems to be flying, am I the only one that thinks time's flying lately, like I can't get a hold of time and anything, but yeah comment down below what kind of videos you'd like to see for Winterfest or construction or even outside of Canada's Wonderland because I am on like a content like grind right now, so definitely looking for more inspiration and yeah thanks so much guys, have a good one, bye!