As those of you who follow this blog know, I’ve get the best laptop in the world. One of the joys of it is the 64 bit architecture. I was lagging behind with my old Jornata Dell Latitude D820, and now I can VM with the big boys. But can I really? It turns out…
I got a DM in HootSuite today from Raymond Mitchell (aka @iwkid): We went back and forth a little, and I ended up creating the SharePoint XSL Templates project. This is an idea I’ve had for a while, but just hadn’t gotten to. Raymond’s prod made me actually do it. Creating a new Codeplex…
With a title like that, should I even pretend that this blog is about anything other than SharePoint? I had a nice Skypversation with Jeremy Thake (@jthake) earlier today. (Yes, today’s posts do have a certain @jthake skew.) Jeremy was having a problem with SharePoint Designer, and was hoping that I could help. What Jeremy was…
One of the great things about open-minded, intelligent people is that they can disagree and still enjoy each other’s opinions. (Yes, you guessed it, I’m saying that so that Bjørn doesn’t just dismiss me right off. He knows me well enough that I don’t think he will, but still…) Bjørn posted a well-thought-out set of…
I noticed something new today in HootSuite, though it may have been there for a while now. See that little icon I’ve highlighted in yellow below? When I click on it, check this out: Nice little feature, and I can keep better track of what my buddy Jeremy (@jthake) is up to. Of course, you’ll…
My white paper, The Middle Tier Manifesto: An Alternative Approach to Development with Microsoft SharePoint (see my prior post) has been garnering a decent amount of attention over the last few days, as I hoped it would. I’m enjoying the discussions it is provoking, as the discussions were the whole point in the first place. I felt…
The other day, Matt Bramer (@iOnline247) and I were discussing the Microsoft /web distribution of applications on the LAMP stack. Much of what he was saying was out of my realm, so I offered to have him do a guest post here. Without further ado, Matt’s thoughts! (You can also read this post on Matt’s blog.)…
For some time now, I’ve felt the need to set down my thoughts on the power of development in the Middle Tier for SharePoint. Today, I’m publishing the first edition of my white paper The Middle Tier Manifesto: An Alternative Approach to Development with Microsoft SharePoint. I say ‘first edition’ because the days of spending…
Over the last week, my submissions have been accepted for two large, impressive SharePoint events. (They impress me, anyway!) I’m also looking forward to the launch of the USPJA Academy. SharePoint Saturday DC First up is SharePoint Saturday DC (#SPSDC). On May 15th at the the NVCC Community Cultural Center in Annandale, VA, I’ll be speaking on How…
I released v0.5.4 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) last Friday, April 9. There were quite a few important changes in the library in this release, as well as a nice new function, $().SPServices.SPAutocomplete. Before this release, there were issues with the $().SPServices.SPRedirectWithID function in MOSS. It had been hard to nail…