Introduction Rainer Wittman (@RainerAtSpirit) and I have been emailing back and forth for a few weeks now. He’s been trying out the new alpha of SPServices 2013.01 which includes jQuery promises aka Deferred objects capabilities (soon to be a real release, I promise!) with the Durandal JavaScript framework. Durandal is a framework for building SPAs,…
It’s supposed to be simple to set up an External Content Type with SharePoint Designer. You just create the connection, flick a few settings, and voila, you’ve got external data available in SharePoint. At least every time I’ve seen it demoed, it works really well. The blog posts out there also paint is as a…
SharePoint blogs are no one’s favorite. There is just enough functionality there to make them useful, but not enough functionality to make them useful enough. On top of that, blogs are sites, not lists. That seems counterintuitive on one level – isn’t it just a list of posts? – but it makes sense on other…
Here’s something really exciting. I’m one of nine authors for an upcoming SharePoint book we’re putting together with Mark Miller (@EUSP), good old Mr. EndUserSharePoint himself. It’s going to be all about using script with SharePoint in interesting and (we hope!) useful ways. As with our SharePoint 2010 at Work: Tricks, Traps, and Bold Opinions book, we’re each…
This git thing gets a lot of press these days and I figure it’s time to learn it. I selected git as the code repo on the SPServices Codeplex site quite a while ago but never used it. Now I’m trying to figure out what would be useful. SPServices has been a single file, as most of…