Here is my slide from the presentation posted on slideshare.

You can also order the book from Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/SharePoint-2013-Branding-Responsive-Development/dp/1430250283/

If you are looking for information on branding SharePoint 2013, in particular how to brand SharePoint 2013 with Responsive Web Design principles in mind, this book is for you.

If you are looking for information on how to use the new client object model or how to build your own SharePoint App in SharePoint 2013, this book is for you.

If you are looking for information on how to use the new WCM features in SharePoint 2013, in particular custom display templates, cross-site publishing, device channels, and managed navigation, this book is for you.

We have also created a SharePoint Yammer group that we will use to help bring together the authors and readers. We also intend to provide supplemental content throughout the SharePoint 2013 life-cycle so as to expand on the material in the book. Our goal is to provide as much information as possible to help you complete your SharePoint branding project.

If you are interested in learning more, check out our Book site at Apress – (https://www.apress.com/9781430250289). If you have already purchased an Alpha copy and have questions, comments or suggestions, please let me know. Your feedback is always welcome.

Here is a snippet of JavaScript code to post the link of the item to the user's social newfeed via REST.

 $.ajax({
 
 url: myurl,
 
 type: 
 
 
 "POST",
 
 data: JSON.stringify({
 
 
 
 
 'restCreationData':{
 
 
 
 
 '__metadata':{
 
 
 
 
 'type':'SP.Social.SocialRestPostCreationData'
 
 },
 
 
 
 
 'ID': null,
 
 
 
 
 'creationData': {
 
 
 
 
 '__metadata': {
 
 
 
 
 'type': 'SP.Social.SocialPostCreationData'
 
 },
 
 
 
 
 'ContentItems': {
 
 
 
 
 'results': [
 
 {
 
 
 
 
 '__metadata': {
 
 
 
 
 'type': 'SP.Social.SocialDataItem'
 
 },
 
 
 
 
 'Text': statusLink,
 
 
 
 
 'Uri':statusLink,
 
 
 
 
 'ItemType':1//0 - document; 1 - link; 3 - tag
 
 }
 
 ]
 
 },
 
 
 
 
 'ContentText': 'Check out this: {0}',
 
 
 
 
 'UpdateStatusText': false
 
 }
 
 }
 
 }),
 
 headers: {
 
 
 
 
 "accept":"application/json;odata=verbose",
 
 
 
 
 "content-type":"application/json;odata=verbose",
 
 
 
 
 "X-RequestDigest":$("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val()
 
 },
 
 success: 
 
 
 function () {
 
 
 
 
 //alert("posted!");
 
 window.parent.postMessage(
 
 
 "CloseCustomActionDialogRefresh", "*");
 
 },
 
 error: 
 
 
 function(xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError){
 
 alert(
 
 
 "post error: " + xhr.status + ";" + thrownError);
 
 window.parent.postMessage(
 
 
 "CloseCustomActionDialogRefresh", "*");
 
 }
 
 });
 

Here are the steps to follow to perform this task:

1. First update the BCS schema with the new columns using SharePoint Designer.
2. Refresh the data sources, update each operation to add and update the new columns
3. Republish/save the new BCS schema
4. From SharePoint, the external list should now have the new columns. Update the external list to show new columns in the view if desired
5. With the saved copy of the old InfoPath template for the external list, right-click the file and select Design.
6. This will open the Infopath template in InfoPath 2010 client. From Data tab, click Refresh fields icon in the ribbon to get the latest schema from SharePoint
7. Redesign the form, republish to the external list

In the case where BCS has to be recreated and the external list has to be recreated, the steps below can be used to reuse the existing infopath template:

1. With the saved copy of the old InfoPath template for the external list, right-click the file and select Design
2. This will open the Infopath template in InfoPath 2010 client
3. click File > Publish > Export source files to a local directory
4. Open the directory containing all the artifacts of the infopath template (.xsn file). The folder should contain the manifest file as well as views xslt files.
5. Right click on the manifest file, open in notepad
6. Find all the references of the old url of the old external list and replace them with the new url to the new external list
7. Find all the references of the old External content type (BCS names) and replace them with the new External content type
8. Save the notepad manifest file
9. Right-click manifest file in the folder, click Design
10. Once the template opens in InfoPath client, save as a template (.xsn) file
11. In the new Infopath client, from Data tab, click Refresh fields icon in the ribbon to get the latest schema from SharePoint
12. Redesign the form, republish to the external list 

Only users with "Read" permission level see this error when the REST data connection is queried.

"A Microsoft SharePoint Server State Service error occurred while processing your request. For more information, contact your server farm administrator.
 
Click Start Over to load a new copy of the form. If this error persists, contact the support team for the Web site.

Click Close to exit this message. "

After comparing the Permissions for "Read" and "Contribute" permission levels, the following permission is needed in order for "Read" users to access data via REST web service.

"Browse Directories  -  Enumerate files and folders in a Web site using SharePoint Designer and Web DAV interfaces. "

Click Submit button on the page to save the change.

Here is a great introduction to it:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj163135(v=office.15).aspx

Unfortunately, we cannot create a new column based on the new geolocation type from SharePoint user interface. It has to be done from powershell or programmatically.

The powershell script below will create a geolocation site column for a site:

$weburl = "https://somesite"

$fieldXml = "<Field Type ='Geolocation' DisplayName='Location' />"

$web = get-spweb $weburl

$field = $web.Fields.AddFieldAsXml($fieldXml)

$web.Update()

If you want to utilize the new Managed Navigation feature to integrate taxonomy and navigation, you can create a term set using the Term Store Management Tool.

Then in your list, set the term set to a managed metadata column. Make sure "Allow multiple values" checkbox is not selected since multi-value columns are not supported for integration. When populating the content, you need to tag each item with the appropriate term for classification.

In order for the content in the list to be reused in other site collections, you need to enable libraries and lists as catalogs. First go to the List or Library Settings page, then click Catalog Settings. From the Catalog Settings page, check the Catalog Sharing checkbox to enable sharing. Select all the fields that uniquely identify each item in the list. Specify the managed metadata field that the consuming site can use to integrate in its own navigation.  If you tag the items with Category Term Set, the consumer site can potentially integrate the terms with the navigation terms.

After you click OK to enable a catalog, you will see the following popup. This warning tells you that in order to query by and refine results by a specific column in the list, you must ensure the column has been added as a site column so that managed properties are created automatically.

Once the content has been marked as a catalog, the content needs to be crawled and added to the search index before the catalog becomes visible to other site collections for consumption. Go to the Search service application to kick off a full crawl on the "Local SharePoint sites" content source.
Once the initial crawl is done, you are ready to consume the list from another site collection. Click Site Settings, under Site Administration, click Manage catalog connections. Click the "Connect to a Catalog" link on the page to view all the published catalogs. If you do not see your new catalog in the list, you need to ensure the content has been crawled. If you do see your catalog, click "Connect" to start the process of configuring integration of the catalog into the consuming site collection.

To enable Manage Navigation on the consuming site, first you need to create a term set to be used for navigation in the target site. Note, to use the new term set for navigation, you need to the "Use this Term Set for Site Navigation" checkbox under the INTENDED USE tab for the new term set.

The configuration process makes the content available in the consuming site and it gives you the option to integrate the catalog with the target site's navigation. If you want the consuming site to integrate the catalog with the navigation, you need to select the column from the list to drive navigation.

The configuration process also gives you options for how you want your users to view items from the catalog. It can direct the users to the content relative to the consuming site or directly to the authoring site. You will also need to specify if you need to create a new Category page for displaying the entire catalog as well as a new item page for viewing each item in detail.

Once the configuration process is completed, you will see the following category pages generated in the Pages library.

From Term Store Management tool, you will also see a new term with child created under the target site's navigation term set. Note, in the future if you need to disconnect and reconnect to the same catalog again, make sure you delete the corresponding terms from the navigation term set. Otherwise, the reconnect of catalog will fail since the same terms already exist in the navigation term set.

Finally navigate to the target site's home page, you will see the latest top navigation and left navigation menus. Click on the menu derived from the navigation term set, you will see all the content from the authoring site collection based on the tag values of each item.

SharePoint 2013 Preview, stand-alone single server farm

Issue:

After configuring the farm, I tried to start the search for one of my content sources, the status is stuck in "Starting" state. From Event viewer, I see the following error:

"The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.CustomDictionaryDeploymentJobDefinition"

After doing some search online, I found the following thread.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sv-FI/sharepointitpropreview/thread/50acc2b8-dd56-4d5a-a660-dffa325ef807

Resolution:

Installed kb 2567680 for WS2008R2SP1. https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2567680

Rebooted the server.

Before resuming the crawl, ensure all the components for search are up and running (From Search Administration page, under Search Application Topology, ensure all the components have green checkmarks).

Then resume the crawl for the content source again.

SharePoint 2010, 3 farms: Collaboration farm, Service apps farm, FAST search farm

Visio was hosted on the collaboration farm consuming Secure Store service from the Service Apps farm.

Issue:

After publishing visio drawings to SharePoint, we were unable to refresh the data. ULS log contained the followign error:

The Secure Store Service application Secure Store Service Application is not accessible. The full exception text is: Object already exists

Resolution:

Ensure users have access to \Users\All Users\Application Data\microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys on the Collaborate SharePoint farm servers. NOTE: These are hidden folder.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/966ec163-452e-4a7a-9f80-e042fdf42c60/

SharePoint 2010, 3 farms: Collaboration, Service apps, FAST

Issue:

When users hit the site, they get "Unexpected Error occurred" and a correlation ID. After reviewing the ULS log, I find the following:

User Profile   Exception occured while connecting to WCF endpoint: System.ServiceModel.Security.SecurityAccessDeniedException: Access is denied.

Resolution:

Grant full control permission to the UPS service app for the web application app pool service account and the farm service account of the Collaboration farm:

Go to the Central Admin of the farm that is hosting the UPS service app,  Central Administration > User Profile Service Application Instance > Permissions