Collecting Souls: Knowing Your Social Media Strategy – Part One

Around the time that my wife was pregnant with our son, I got very into genealogy. Suddenly it seemed very important to understand my backstory, and then my wife’s backstory, and even the backstory of any friends who were silly enough to mention a possibly famous ancestor to me. Since I’m a computer guy, I…

Reports from the Field: SPServices v0.6.0 Noticeably Faster

I’m starting to get feedback on the new version of SPServices, which is v0.6.0. One consistent message (other than “I love SPServices!”) is that it feels noticeably faster than previous versions. I wasn’t able to do any real benchmarking, but in my testing I felt that there was a noticeable performance improvement as well. At…

jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) v0.6.0 Released

Last night (March 12), I released SPServices v0.6.0. As I’ve been discussing in previous posts (here, here, and here), this release is a significant refactoring so that it passes the majority of the coding standards tests at JSLint.com. Of course, there are some other great things included in this release as well, and I’ll outline them…