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…
Have you ever needed to capture signatures in SharePoint forms? What about InfoPath forms? I’m betting many people have seen a need to do this but have balked at the cost or complexity of the available solutions. A client of mine named Cody Sellers (@codyjsellers), who works for Mercom Corporation had just such a need….
I picked up a Surface 3 Pro over the weekend. If you want to read a *very* thorough review of the Surface 3, take a look at Corey Roth’s (@coreyroth) excellent write-up Complete Surface Pro 3 Review – 3 days later. I went with the I5 256Gb model (just as Corey did), as it has…
This one belongs firmly in the “things that make you go hmm…” department. Let’s say you are a good do-be like me and you use all of the Microsoft products that you can get your hands on. You’ve got email and SharePoint running on Office 365, you use all the Office applications and tools, you’re…
For years people have been asking me how they could upload files using SPServices. I’ve dodged the questions every time because I simply didn’t know how. On a current client project, I’m building a slick Single Page Application (SPA) to manage tasks in SharePoint 2010. It’s basically a veneer over the clunky out-of-the-box task list…
My friend (and client) Dan Antion (@dantion) tweeted a link to an excellent article this morning entitled An Open Letter on Feminism In Tech. The subtitle is “We are tired of pretending this stuff doesn’t happen.” I’m right there with this. My role models about feminism were my mother Christina Bellamy and my paternal Grandfather…
I want to thank everyone in the SharePoint practice at Protiviti for another stellar SharePoint Conference .ORG. This was one of the first “big time” conferences at which I was asked to speak four years ago, and it’s always one of my favorites. The Protiviti folks are some of the nicest and most talented people…