It’s been a busy few weeks in my life. First I was in London at the SharePoint Evolution Conference, then home for a week, then off to Microsoft Ignite in Chicago, then back home, and boom! I was heading out the back to put some burgers on the grill, I missed the second to the last…
Yesterday I created a new GitHub repo for KnockoutJS binding handlers for use with SharePoint. I’ve been using KnockoutJS for over a year now, and love working with it to build Single Page Application (SPAs) and other interactive functionality inside SharePoint. I thought starting a repo that could store bindingHandlers for KnockoutJS that are generally…
At the great SharePoint Evolution Conference last week, someone – I wish I could remember what session it was! – mentioned this great little tool. It helps you to create a very detailed theme for SharePoint 2013. You can save the file into a .spcolor file, which you can upload to the Theme Gallery in…
Summary: When you move from SOAP to REST, you’ll want to understand the differences between XML and JSON as well. Modern Web developers are most likely to use JSON, and this is a great time to switch. Most auto mechanics understand that there are several different measurement systems – and therefore toolsets – that they…
Summary: You can improve your SPServices-based code today to prepare for converting to REST calls later. In this article, Marc introduces some new patterns for your JavaScript code to make SOAP calls easier to maintain and easier to move to REST when you decide it’s time. Remember that older car I drive? Well, over the…