SharePoint blogs are no one’s favorite. There is just enough functionality there to make them useful, but not enough functionality to make them useful enough. On top of that, blogs are sites, not lists. That seems counterintuitive on one level – isn’t it just a list of posts? – but it makes sense on other…
Here’s something really exciting. I’m one of nine authors for an upcoming SharePoint book we’re putting together with Mark Miller (@EUSP), good old Mr. EndUserSharePoint himself. It’s going to be all about using script with SharePoint in interesting and (we hope!) useful ways. As with our SharePoint 2010 at Work: Tricks, Traps, and Bold Opinions book, we’re each…
This git thing gets a lot of press these days and I figure it’s time to learn it. I selected git as the code repo on the SPServices Codeplex site quite a while ago but never used it. Now I’m trying to figure out what would be useful. SPServices has been a single file, as most of…
Sahil Malik had an extremely useful little post about a month back that I emailed to myself and then promptly forgot. Today, Mikael Svenson pointed back to Sahil’s in a post of his own that is also very useful. I’m going to steal a little from both posts for this one. I hope Sahil and Mikael don’t…
I get many great questions in the SPServices Discussions (that’s the best place to ask questions about SPServices, IMHO, not the MSDN forums, or StackExchange, or on the Documentation pages on the SPServices site, where I rarely see them). Some of them deserve to get wider exposure by becoming a blog post, and here is one of…
David Broussard put up an interesting post on his blog the other day called MicroWork Is Just Work By Smaller Name. In the post, David says: This is the promise of Social Business, or as I like to call it MicroWorking. When I am standing in line at the grocery store, I am often on…
Introduction Ben Tedder (@bentedder) has long been a fan of SPServices and his writing about it is great, to boot. I liked this post back when Ben first put it up on his blog because it really does tell a story, and SPServices plays a significant role in it. Ben has built quite a few real-world…
I’m driven to write this post after reading one by James Dellow over the weekend called Gartner: Yammer or SharePoint? The choice is still unclear. The choice indeed may still seem unclear, but I think that the statement addresses the wrong questions. In my opinion (I’m the only one here – you talkin’ to me?), we should stop…
Dave Coleman (@davecoleman146davecoleman146) and I had a grand time – Dave and I always seem to have a grand time – with the webinar we did yesterday. It was part of the MetaVis SharePoint MVP Webinars Series and I presented Creating a Great User Experience in SharePoint. It was somewhat a reprise of my SPTechCon…
Introduction I ran across this SPServices Story in a post on the blog at CTS. The author of the post, Matt Ingle, is a Senior Consultant at CTS in Birmingham, AL. According to Matt, he is a team lead for a group called the SharePoint Factory. The SharePoint Factory team roles correspond to the various areas of…