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…
Mark Miller (@EUSP) over at EndUserSharePoint.com is always coming up with something fun and new. I saw him tweet just a little while ago about his Community in SharePointpost over at EUSP. I figured SPServices deserved one of these, too. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlwJhHqYYec&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
There’s an interesting article in today’s Sunday Boston Globe entitled Please do not change your password The basic premise is that the security folks are wasting their time and ours in trying to get us to use strong passwords which we change frequently. The harder they try to make us do it, the less likely…
Christophe Humbert, of Path to SharePoint fame, pinged me yesterday and asked me if I had an autocomplete function in my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. Unfortunately, “no” was the answer, so I decided to build one. Et voila! There are lots of functions like this one out there available on the Web. I…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Whoa, Bessie! I forgot about one of the most useful XSL tags for Data View Web Parts (DVWPs)! <xsl:import> allows you to be highly modular in storing your XSL templates for reuse. I mentioned this back in Part 13 briefly, but I should go into it in some more detail. This post…
In my post What About Anonymous Writes to SharePoint Lists with Web Services? the other day, I wondered why the SharePoint Web Services don’t allow anonymous updates to SharePoint lists through the Web Services, even when anonymous write access is enabled on those lists. Since then, I’ve gotten two independent answers that tell me that it just…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… In the last article, I covered some of the XPath Math / Number functions; in this one, I’ll cover the rest. The first set included the ones that I considered somewhat tricky, and the ones in this article ought to be more straightforward. One thing that I forgot to mention in the…
Here’s the nut of the question. SharePoint’s Web Services fall into two main classes: those that read (generally Get* methods) and those that write. Others don’t really make sense unless you are authorized, like the Users and Groups Web Service. In situations where you are allowing Anonymous Access, it makes perfect sense to be able…