Every once in a while I click randomly on something and realize that I’ve been an idiot. OK, sometimes it doesn’t require clicking on anything. First off, if you’re working on client side code and you aren’t using Firefox with the Firebug add on, you should be. It gives you all the debugging capability that…
Here are some numbers for the meaningless-but-fun-statistics bin. Codeplex collects a bunch of numbers for me, so I can preserve them here. Yesterday, Sunday, October 27th, 2013, SPServices crossed the 100,000 total downloads threshold. I posted the first version of SPServices (SPServices 0.2.3) on Codeplex on Aug 19th, 2009 as an alpha. That means it’s…
The other day I tweeted that I May succumb to this this syntax: var $this = $(this);* Because I use Hootsuite and it’s a simple button push, I also posted it to Facebook. George Winters saw it there and wondered what I meant. I was referring to a common jQuery coding practice. In the past,…
Current cost of the government #shutdown (find the updating numbers at http://t.co/qI1kCT4XuP): pic.twitter.com/f4zJ70yC9R — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) October 6, 2013 This sort of thing doesn’t happen every day, so I felt compelled to preserve it. If it had only been the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal.
As I mentioned in the first part of the series, we have several workhorse operations at our disposal in the SOAP Web Services with which we can build our Single-page Applications (SPAs). (Of course, which API you use is somewhat unimportant. All of the techniques here should work using REST or CSOM, too. I’m just…