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…
My friend Andrew Connell (@andrewconnell) posted a very interesting article called Programmer Interrupted to Facebook today, saying: …all developers should share this with the one you love or non-developers you work with. Help them understand why you get so pissed when they come into your office to ask the simplest questions. Many times I feel…
Another splendid time was had by all at the latest rendition of SPTechCon, this time in sunny (mostly) San Francisco at the Hilton Union Square. The BZMedia folks who put on SPTechCon are great people and both the San Francisco and Boston versions are on my list of favorite SharePoint events. If you weren’t able…
The other day I realized that I had done something very dumb. I have a killer laptop and I sometimes let my nine year old son play Minecraft on it. The worlds he builds are spectacular. (He also wants you to know that he loves pigs.) Well, he’s gotten interested in some of the mods…
A few weeks ago I tweeted and posted to Facebook a news story from CNN which I found very intriguing: Can Apple help make hearing aids cool? Based on the article, I’d have to say that the “cool” factor ought to be outweighed by the “I could hear better” factor. So why this post? It’s…
SPServices user JSdream asked a question in the SPServices Discussions on Codeplex the other day that’s worthy of a more prominent response. Should we, who use SPServices, be concerned at all with Microsoft recommending not to use either the ASMX web services in SharePoint 2013 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/jj164060.aspx#DeprecatedAPIs) or the owssvr.dll (I used this one a lot…
Today I was working on what seemed like a simple little task. I wanted to create a subsite using a REST call in SharePoint 2013. I’m not working in an “app” per se – this is for SharePoint 2013 on premises, and I want to do the subsite creation directly from a call in a…
Introduction Ingeborg Hawighorst (@IngeborgNZ) is a long-time SPServices user who has come up with any number of intriguing uses for the library. I’d recommend her blog anytime if you’d like to learn about interesting things you can do with SharePoint, but even more so if Excel is your bag. Ingeborg has been an Excel MVP…
Back in late January, I sat down – in the virtual sense, as usual – with Hilton Giesenow (@hiltongiesenow or the slightly more active @TheMossShow) to have a chat about JavaScript for his MOSS Show SharePoint Podcast. At the time, we were in the throes of trying to figure out what had happened on Office365…