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…
If you go to TechNet to find out where the thesaurus files for search are so that you can add in your own synonyms, you may be as confused as I was earlier today. It only took me about 20 minutes to figure out, but if three or four people find this post, we’ll have…
Introduction Anyone who follows this series knows that I’m always on the lookout for interesting and useful implementations of SPServices. A few weeks ago, a tweet in my feeds caught my eye: Just posted multiple fields autocomplete jQuery plugin using @sympmarc's SPServices http://t.co/Z8WJSDVakQ — Plumsail (@plumsail_sp) August 21, 2013 Anton Khritonenkov, who is a Technical…
Single-page applications (SPAs) are nothing new on the Web. However, like Responsive Web Design (RWD), SPAs are gaining favor as a way to enable real work with an improved user experience (UX). From the Wikipedia definition of SPA: A single-page application (SPA), also known as single-page interface (SPI), is a web application or web site…
Here is a question that came in from my blog today. My company is starting to plan to migrate to SP 2013 and I just found out that the design and split view is not included in SP Designer. This is going to be absolutely devasting for us as this is really the only way…
I’m just returning from another splendid time at the SharePoint and Exchange Forum (SEF) conference in Stockholm, Sweden. This year, the conference was actually international: it was held on the Silja Symphony cruise ship in both the Stockholm and Helsinki harbors. It was an interesting and fun venue for a conference, and for those organizers…