Someone asked me this today through LinkedIn: I’m getting more and more into the SharePoint sphere and am looking to increase my exposure to both the technology and its members. If you’ve any suggestions on any open projects or communities that I can contribute to to further both aims, I’m more than happy to receive…
I’m looking forward to the inaugural meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group (BASPUG) tonight! If you’re in the Boston area, register, and come and join us at the Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD) Center in Cambridge. With a name like NERD, I have to go just to see it. The speaker will be…
Woo hoo! Today was another milestone day for SPServices. This is the kind of milestone which doesn’t really mean anything in particular, but it still is pretty darn cool. There have been exactly 1000 downloads of SPServices v0.5.4 since I released it on April 9. I’m not going to pretend to believe that means that…
I’ve fixed it on multiple machines, but I always forget where the setting is. Here, for future me when he needs them, are the simple steps to make this annoying popup go away: Go to Tools->Internet Options->Security Select the ‘Security’ tab Click the ‘Custom Level’ button In the ‘Miscellaneous’ section change ‘Display mixed content’ to…
I was trying to track down some odd behavior in SharePoint’s Lists Web Service tonight, and I think I’ve found what I can only call a bug. Here’s the scenario. All of these conditions must apply:: Using the GetListItems operation Querying a list which has a required multi-select column Specifying columns to return in the…
Yesterday, I saw a tweet from Joel Ward which immediately got my attention: Joel and I went back and forth on Twitter for a while. The gist of the conversation was: What is the best game in town for tools and tricks for end users (Obvious answer: EndUserSharePoint.com) and would a repository of the…
Better late than never to post about this, I suppose. Chris Givens set up a great challenge on the MSDN Forums for SharePoint which ended on April 29. You can read about it here and here. We tweeted about it with the hashtag #forumjam2010. Once the results were all in, I came in second. Sure, I…
Because I do 90+% of my work with SharePoint in the Middle Tier, I’ve been using just one SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) virtual machine (VM) since early 2007. This VM is self-contained and when I need a new, unique environment, I just spin up a new Web App and Site Collection. Why is this blog-worthy? Well,…
It’s Friday, and the weekend is coming. As I wax lyrically on the fun we will have this weekend with the party for my son’s sixth birthday, I had some thoughts about the upcoming USPJ Academy (USPJA) I wanted to share. (Weekends for a couple who both run home-based businesses aren’t so weekend-y, actually. Try…
Laura Rogers (aka @WonderLaura) posted a neato way to populate a list form with the current user’s information today in her post SharePoint List Form – Default User Information. As I always say to Laura, it’s amazing how many different ways there are to do something in SharePoint! I would probably do it differently, but…