How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000)
How to replace 30 laptops (and $10,000) with 150 sheets of paper http://ow.ly/5FU1b -> Simplicity can be the most elegant solution.
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Tonight’s Forecast: Cloudy with a Side of SharePoint
I just got back from a nice little event put together by our friends over at SoftArtisans called “Cloudy with a Side of SharePoint”. It was a freeform discussion at a local beer pub on all sorts of topics, but nominally “What’s up with SharePoint in the cloud?”. Of course, you can get a bunch…
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SPServices Spring 2011 Survey Results – Part 1: Demographics
I recently did a survey asking the SPServices user community questions about how they used the library, how long they’ve used it, why, for what types of solutions, etc. I read through all of the responses, learned a few things, and promptly forgot to publish the results. There is some interesting information in the responses…
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Namespacing CSS Classes and IDs in Your SharePoint Branding
This is a concept I’ve gone back and forth on over the last year or so. I think I’m ready to firmly come down on the “Yes, let’s do it” side of the argument. Here’s the first definition of namespace from Wikipedia: In general, a namespace is a container that provides context for the identifiers…
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Adding jQuery+SPServices to a SharePoint Page: Step One, Always
As a follow up to my prior post Adding jQuery to a SharePoint Page: Step One, Always, here’s another step one, always, for when you are using jQuery+SPServices. Even if you have referenced the jQuery library correctly, you still may not be referencing SPServices correctly. To make sure that SPServices is referenced correctly, add this…
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Updating a Lookup Column Using SharePoint’s Lists Web Service
The SPServices discussions are a fount of interesting information. I find myself answering all sorts of questions which, while connected to SPServices, are often just as much about how SharePoint works in general. I had two questions recently about how to update Lookup columns with UpdateListItems, and I thought they would be of general interest….
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SharePoint Community; Loud but not so clear?
Dan Antion (@dantion) had a guest blogger on his excellent SharePoint Stories blog yesterday. Mark Thompson (@MCTSMark), half of the Consultant Chronicle team, weighed in on SharePoint Community; Loud but not so clear. I liked the post and started to add a few comments. Before I knew it, I had enough to say that I…
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KM Forum: Fitting SharePoint to Knowledge Initiatives
This coming July 20, I’ll be on the “Panel of Experts” at this event at Bentley University. We’ll be discussing Fitting SharePoint to Knowledge Initiatives, a topic near and dear to my own heart. SharePoint is really cool technology, but as I’m frequently saying, it’s just a tool which must be a part of a…
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Getting “ows_MetaInfo” Nicely with SPServices
I know that I’m going to look for this tip again, so this post is as much as a “note to self” as anything else, though I expect that others will use it, too. One of the streams I watch with HootSuite is a plain old search for “SPServices”. It’s useful for me to see…
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Office365 Makes Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier More Relevant
If you’ve stuck your head out from under your rock at all recently, you’ve heard about Office365. There was a huge hullabaloo in NYC and elsewhere yesterday to accompany the “big announcement” (which most of us have been hearing about for probably six months now) as Microsoft launched Office365 globally . It may not surprise…