In building a Single Page Application (SPA), we’ll usually want to keep the data we’re displaying up to date. You can probably think of many examples where you see this on the Web, but newsfeeds are a prime example. While we’re sitting on the page, we see newly posted content pop up, usually on the…
I can honestly say that I’m sure that everyone enjoyed SharePoint Saturday Chicago yesterday. From the location at the Hard Rock Chicago to the fantastic speaker line up (I snuck in) to the overall convivial atmosphere, it was an event to remember. Kudos go out to Kris Wagner (@SharePointKris), Doug Hemminger (@DougHemminger), Chris Geier (@chrisgeier), and Bryan Gulley (@UXJester)…
Every once in a while I click randomly on something and realize that I’ve been an idiot. OK, sometimes it doesn’t require clicking on anything. First off, if you’re working on client side code and you aren’t using Firefox with the Firebug add on, you should be. It gives you all the debugging capability that…
Here are some numbers for the meaningless-but-fun-statistics bin. Codeplex collects a bunch of numbers for me, so I can preserve them here. Yesterday, Sunday, October 27th, 2013, SPServices crossed the 100,000 total downloads threshold. I posted the first version of SPServices (SPServices 0.2.3) on Codeplex on Aug 19th, 2009 as an alpha. That means it’s…
The other day I tweeted that I May succumb to this this syntax: var $this = $(this);* Because I use Hootsuite and it’s a simple button push, I also posted it to Facebook. George Winters saw it there and wondered what I meant. I was referring to a common jQuery coding practice. In the past,…
Current cost of the government #shutdown (find the updating numbers at http://t.co/qI1kCT4XuP): pic.twitter.com/f4zJ70yC9R — USA TODAY (@USATODAY) October 6, 2013 This sort of thing doesn’t happen every day, so I felt compelled to preserve it. If it had only been the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal.
As I mentioned in the first part of the series, we have several workhorse operations at our disposal in the SOAP Web Services with which we can build our Single-page Applications (SPAs). (Of course, which API you use is somewhat unimportant. All of the techniques here should work using REST or CSOM, too. I’m just…
One of the big players in the SharePoint space, harmon.ie, is currently running a contest to collect the best “Rogue IT Horror Story”. If you have a story and want a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy S IV or a Trip to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2014 in Las Vegas in March, by all means…
I wanted to add some custom refiners to each of the custom search result pages I’ve been working on in a project. The steps to do this aren’t complex, but since I needed to read a bunch of posts out there to get it just right, I figured I’d write it up. Create Custom Managed…
Introduction Stefan Bauer (@StfBauer) and I have known each other for a while now. We share a passion for developing solutions in SharePoint that both function well and look good. User Experience Matters. The other day I was working on a project where I wanted to access some managed metadata (MM) values in SharePoint 2010…