The SharePoint SOAP Web Services are fast. In fact, I think they are as fast as the newer REST Web Services in many cases. The old, crufty SOAP Web Services even provide batching, something that the REST services don’t yet do. (Andrew Connell (@andrewconnell) has been beating the drum about this with Microsoft for months…
Yesterday, a lot of us read about Ray Ozzie’s latest venture, Talko, in the media. The guy does know how to get the word out. That and the fact that he basically invented Lotus Notes, built and sold Groove to Microsoft, became Microsoft’s chief technical officer or chief software architect (or whatever, depending on where…
I’ve been building a lot of great stuff with KnockoutJS lately. It seems that it can enable many – if not all – of the development requirements I have these days, whether I’m building a single-page application (SPA) or just adding a snippet of content to an existing page. I can even build KnockoutJS-enabled “Web…
I have been using WordPress longer than a lot of people. I think I first moved from Windows Live’s blogging platform to WordPress around 2007. Because I’ve been here a long time, I’ve got some plugins that have been around for a long time. One of those is the Twitter Blackbird Pie WordPress Plugin. The…
One of the cool things that came along in SharePoint 2013 was Geolocation fields in lists. Using Geolocation fields, we can display Map Views in SharePoint lists. This capability is an awesome way to add visualization to your UI and can really add value in many business processes. Think about it. You could show: A…
It may surprise you to know that one of my most popular blog posts has nothing to do with SharePoint, knowledge management, performance improvement, jQuery, client side coding, SPServices, or anything else you might expect. It’s one I wrote years ago (June 17, 2009, to be exact) called Harvey Balls for Office Documents. I though it…
I noticed a nice little trick going by in my Twitter feeds today. I’ve always wanted to know how to do this. Displaying the right formats for dates and times as well as the right offset from UTC is a real challenge from the client side. There’s a fantastic library called Moment.js that I use…
Here’s a new one in my email inbox this morning: “As per my discussion with you receptionist, I have enclosed…” Yeah, my receptionist, which I don’t have. That was in an email from a company some would consider “legitimate” in the SharePoint space. They have a set of products for SharePoint that may work well…
I wrote this post about the Australian SharePoint Conference on the plane heading to the New Zealand SharePoint Conference but never got around to publishing it. The New Zealand conference was every bit as great, but I didn’t do a write up of that one. After the two conferences I met my wife and son (The…
Here’s an idea I had today based on a conversation I had with some of the other SharePoint MVPs: expose the REST endpoints and documentation right in the UI for those who have the appropriate permissions. It could be a little icon at the bottom of any page where there are relevant end points. All…