Mark Rackley (@MrAckley) and I had a Twonversation with Jeff Jones (@SPJeff) about a month ago about when it is good to use SharePoint’s Client Side Object Model (CSOM) over SPServices. You can see the important bits of that conversation in the image to the right. (Yeah, it’s taken us forever to get this post done. I…
I’ve changed pages countless times in SharePoint Designer, but this case, where I wanted to make a relatively small change to the home page of a Blog site, proved especially onerous. In most cases, overriding the default XSL is as simply as editing what’s there and saving your changes. It would seem that the team…
In my last article I talked about what HTML5 is and that it will help us get to a more “Semantic Web”, but I didn’t explain what the W3C standards really mean. Partly that’s because the process is long and drawn out and murky at best. When I talk about the HTML5 recommendations and standards,…
A couple of cool things happened today with SPServices that I thought I’d capture in a post. First, I saw a couple of tweets this morning from Ryan Kirkman (@ryan_kirkman). Ryan runs a CDN for JavaScript solutions called cdnjs. CDNJS was started in January 2011 as an attempt to speed up the web. It was…
This iteration of HTML is the first in a long time (HTML 4.01 – the current standard – was published as a W3C Recommendation way back in 1999), and I’d argue that it’s the first in the new age of branding, logos, and chiclets for everything that anyone thinks up. Because of this, there has…
Many of you have heard that there’s something new coming, and that it’s called HTML5. Or maybe that it’s here but you can’t take advantage of it due to the browser you use or because you use SharePoint. As with most new things these days, there’s way too much information available about HTML5 to sift…
Um, yeah. It’s almost impossible to figure out what this means. I was trying to move an email address in an existing contact in Outlook 2010 from the E-mail slot to the E-mail 2 slot and this gem popped up when I tried to paste it. Turning to Bing, nothing of any use.Google, much the…
This is a silly one, but I’ve run into it on two machines now. You’d think with all the updates Adobe forces you to load, one would have fixed this automatically. If you try to print a PDF file in Windows 7 with Adobe Reader X and the application crashes, there’s a fix. Navigate to…
Image via Wikipedia If you’ve been bitten by the issue I described in my post called August Cumulative Update Causing Stack Overflows with DVWPs Running Over One Second, then you’ll be happy to know that there may be a solution available to you. An anonymous reader left a comment on the above post the today…
I had great fun presenting at Office365 Redmond a few Saturdays ago. Not only was it on the Microsoft campus, but some Microsoft folks were in my session as well. It’s always interesting to see the reactions from Microsofties when they see how people really use their stuff. My session was entitled “Flying in the…