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…
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…
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…
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…
The other day, I was helping Jim (jtandrew on Codeplex) with an issue he was having with SPServices. It took a little back and forth before we realized that he was using an old version of SPServices with a newer version of jQuery. One of the problems with naming your files something consistent like jquery.SPServices.min.js…
I had a question in the SPServices Discussions the other day about what to pass to the GetUserProfileByIndex operation in order to retrieve the User Profile information for a user. Well, it seemed simple enough after looking at the MSDN SDK for GetUserProfileByIndex; you’d simply pass in the index. But what *is* the index? Is…
OK Go released a new album yesterday (180/360, and it’s great – go buy it!) so I figured I’d better release a new version of SPServices. Those guys shouldn’t have anything on me. My release isn’t live, but it’ll do new cool stuff in your live SharePoint pages. But enough tomfoolery. Yesterday (June 21), I…
Several people have asked me what I showed Dan Antion last week which caused him to say “Marc began by showing us one of the most impressive web pages I have ever seen in SharePoint.” I’m not sure that it was actually all *that* impressive (I have better!) but it does do some pretty cool…
Last week, while I was in Connecticut working with Dan Antion’s team, I was able to meet Mark Thompson (@MCTSMark) and Bill Kelly, who run the blog Consultant Chronicle. Mark and Bill are aiming to build readership amongst consultants and practitioners in the general technology space. Or, as their subtitle says “Building a community to…
Yup, I’m stealing the main part of the title from Dan Antion’s (@dantion) SharePoint Story for this week. Why? Well, because the story is about the two days I spent with Dan and his team talking about developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier. I don’t usually like to crow, but when someone like Dan comes up with…