On a recent client project, I was able to take advantage of Jaap Vossers‘ excellent InstantListFilter project on Codeplex. It’s just the sort of thing that you need to improve the user experience with SharePoint, and you can do it with minimal work because Jaap’s done all of the heavy lifting for you. It’s a…
Every once in a while, I’m sort of OK with blowing my own horn. One year into the life of my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services, now usually known as SPServices, I’m feeling pretty good about it. I first started writing the bits and pieces back in July, 2009 after reading a great blog…
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…
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…
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…
We released our jQuery library for SharePoint Web Services to Codeplex today. You can find it at http://spservices.codeplex.com; the current release is 0.2.3. We’ll keep the existing demo page up and running on the Sympraxis Consulting demo site and try to keep it current with each new release. The demo page basically mirrors our test…