Using _spPageContextInfo to Determine the Current SharePoint Context in Script

Sahil Malik had an extremely useful little post about a month back that I emailed to myself and then promptly forgot. Today, Mikael Svenson pointed back to Sahil’s in a post of his own that is also very useful. I’m going to steal a little from both posts for this one. I hope Sahil and Mikael don’t…

SPServices Stories #12 – SharePoint and jQuery SPServices in Education: A Case Study

This entry is part 12 of 21 in the series SPServices Stories

Introduction Ben Tedder (@bentedder) has long been a fan of SPServices and his writing about it is great, to boot. I liked this post back when Ben first put it up on his blog because it really does tell a story, and SPServices plays a significant role in it. Ben has built quite a few real-world…

The SharePoint Social vs. Yammer Battle – Do We Care?

I’m driven to write this post after reading one by James Dellow over the weekend called Gartner: Yammer or SharePoint? The choice is still unclear. The choice indeed may still seem unclear, but I think that the statement addresses the wrong questions. In my opinion (I’m the only one here – you talkin’ to me?), we should stop…