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…
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…