SharePoint ‘Customization’ vs. ‘Development’, aka ‘Is It Code?’

One of the great things about being on the faculty at the USPJ Academy is getting to engage in the type of discussions that I recall as being so rewarding in my academic career.  There’s no immediate business crisis at hand, just a bunch of motivated, interested people kicking around ideas to see what makes…

jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) v0.5.6 Released

Tonight I’m releasing SPServices v0.5.6.  The changes in this release aren’t major, but they are still important. Jaap Vossers (that’s a link to Jaap’s SharePointOverflow profile because his blog seems to have gone missing as I write this) spotted a bug in the core SPServices function that I hadn’t ever caught.  If he supplied a…

BASPUG Meeting Tonight (9 June) in Cambridge, MA, USA

If you’re in the Boston, MA, USA area tonight, come to the second meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group at the Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD) Center, located in Cambridge.  The first meeting was a great gathering, with almost 100 attendees.  Even if the topic for each meeting isn’t of prime…