This morning I saw a post on Facebook (the other Yammer) from my friend Jasper Oosterveld (@jasoosterveld): Great start of the morning! OneDrive for Business Sync lost my Visio file with my sitemaps and page lay-outs. Un&*@(believable…. It truly pains me to see posts like this for several reasons. First of all, I hate to…
A few weeks ago I posted from the Arctic SharePoint Challenge in Oslo, Norway. Now that I’ve been home for a while, I *still* think it was a really cool thing to have the chance to attend. I was flattered to be asked to give a keynote on the first day and to act as…
I’m in Oslo at the 5th annual Arctic SharePoint Challenge. This is quite an event. As far as I know, it’s the only hackathon focused purely on SharePoint in the world. A few stats: Stats: This year's event will sport 9 teams, 41 contenders, 4 judges and 2 groupies. And close to 1500 badges to…
A splendid time was had by all at the inaugural Austin, TX version of the venerable SharePoint Technology Conference, usually known as SPTechCon. There was a tangibly different energy in the air at this SPTechCon. I’m sure some of that had to do with the new venue, but there seemed to be a bit more…
In the prior posts in the series, we’ve seen how to set up a page for our employee directory and then create Display Templates to render the information we want for each person, along with a nice alphabetical filtering capability. Up to this point, things have worked pretty much the same as they would in…
If you’re working in the latest versions of Chrome (~40+) – and maybe Firefox – and you use SPServices, you may start to see an warning: Synchronous XMLHttpRequest on the main thread is deprecated because of its detrimental effects to the end user’s experience. For more help, check http://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/. Vigilant SPServices user frankhale reported this…
This comes up all the time in the SPServices Discussions on Codeplex. When you are making most Web services calls to SharePoint, you have to use the InternalName rather than the DisplayName. This is true whether you are using SPServices, CSOM, or REST. You may see the InternalName referred to as the StaticName as well….
Here’s a cool trick you can use with RequireJS. I found it in a post by @rnsloan called Conditionally Loading jQuery 2.x. Since environments with SharePoint can often have a mixed bag of browser versions, this conditional setting lets us load jQuery 2.x when the browser can handle it (generally IE 9+) or jQuery 1.x…
This is a quick one, but it’ll be a post I return to over and over again. When you use Web storage (a.k.a. DOM storage) – localStorage or sessionStorage – to cache data, you’ll often want to know how much you’ve used already. Each browser gives you a different amount of storage to work with,…
In the prior two parts of the series, I covered the idea of an employee directory (or associate directory, or person directory, or whatever you call the people in your company/organization/commune) and how to create the basic page. Once again, I want to give credit to Ari Bakker’s (@aribakker) post that shows how to set…