I’ve really been digging the content I’ve been finding through Medium for the last few months or so. The Web is ever-evolving and to me Medium represents a new paradigm for Web publishing and content consumption. It’s sort of blogging combined with content crowd-sourcing combined with highlighting like I have on my Kindle combined with… Well,…
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…
This is another post in the vein of “it happened to me and it took me a long time to figure it out, so why should you go through the same pain”? I’ve got an application running at a client that sits on top of SharePoint 2007. It uses KnockoutJS and lots of other modern…
A new profile page and editing capability has rolled out quietly to Office 365, giving us a responsive, more robust profile view. Astute tea leaf reader and roadmap watcher Wictor Wilén spotted something the other day that is a bigger deal than he made it out to be in his blog post, What’s new in the Office Roadmap –…
In this series, you’ll learn how to transition from the SOAP Web Services – which SPServices supports – to REST. If your organization is making a transition to SharePoint 2013 or Office 365 & SharePoint Online (and anything hybrid in between), this series will help you develop new patterns, migrate your codebase, use OData effectively…
This week I was working on moving a design into SharePoint 2010. The design was made up of the standard sorts of things: HTML mockups with graphics, CSS, etc. The mockups are using Twitter Bootstrap as the styling framework. I’ve done this sort of branding implementation many times, and it’s always interesting because what I…