Today I’ve posted the first beta for SPServices v0.7.1. While it is only a point release, it contains more significant changes than its sibling, v0.7.0, which was mainly focused on publishing a version which would work with jQuery 1.7. If you are willing and able, I’d appreciate you testing this beta in any places where you…
It was a great honor that Mark Miller asked me to contribute to his new book called SharePoint at Work – Tricks, Traps, and Bold Opinions: The Best of EndUserSharePoint.com. The book is going to press now and the goal is to have copies available at SPTechCon in San Francisco later this month. (Sadly, I’m…
Here’s another one of those “Why didn’t I ever figure this out before?” things. Many times when I’m editing pages in SharePoint Designer and everything is going along swimmingly, suddenly I hear the Jaws theme and I get an error like this: One of the properties of the Web Part has an incorrect format. Microsoft…
Yesterday, due to a suggestion from Stefan Bauer (@StfBauer) (though he wasn’t the first, truth be told), I created a Facebook page for SPServices. I’ll use it to post some of the same information that you see here, but obviously it’ll be more SPServices-focused. Christian Stahl (@CStahl) pointed out that it’ll be a great place…
Faster and more furious, that’s what I always aim for. I’ve been working hard on this next release of SPServices. I’ve been lucky to have some down time between projects to do it. Yes, I’m happy to have the gap so that I can do more and do it better; I’ve been able to make…
Yup, the alphas are coming fast and furious these days. I just posted a new alpha of SPServices v0.7.1. The most significant change in this alpha is the ability to have multiple child columns for a parent column in SPCascadeDropdowns. This was something I always intended it to do, but the last time I tried…
Over a year ago, I built myself a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation so that I could hack around with it. I’ve used it for some client development, but mostly it’s where I work on the demos I use when I speak at events. Recently, when FPWeb decided to get out of the Exchange hosting…
I posted a new alpha of SPServices v0.7.1 today. Even though I just released v0.7.0 in early December, I’ve been working steadily to get some great new functionality and performance improvements into v0.7.1 as well as to fix some rather obscure bugs. You can see the details of what is included in this alpha on…
On January 1, promptly at 13:00 EST (that’s 1pm to us Yanks), I got the email from Microsoft informing me that I had received the MVP Award for SharePoint Server again for 2012. As in 2011, I feel tremendously honored and humbled to receive the MVP. I view it as a statement by my peers…
I just went through a little exercise that was simple, but fun, and I thought I’d share. As part of building my new SPXmlToJson function for SPServices, I wanted to spin through some of my lists to see what the various types of columns were and count the occurrences. Sure, I could have probably just…