Tonight I’m releasing SPServices v0.5.6. The changes in this release aren’t major, but they are still important. Jaap Vossers (that’s a link to Jaap’s SharePointOverflow profile because his blog seems to have gone missing as I write this) spotted a bug in the core SPServices function that I hadn’t ever caught. If he supplied a…
Rarely in my career have I been as jazzed about something which I have been involved with as I am about the USPJ Academy. We held our inauguration event on 31 May, and now we’ve got classes up and running and students walking the virtual halls. Founded by my friends Bjørn Furuknap and Anil Sharma,…
Today I released the next version of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (aka SPServices) to Codeplex: v0.5.5. It’s been far too long since the last release, but I’ve been very busy working on client projects and helping to get the USPJ Academy up and running. Given that there have been 1668 downloads of…
When I release a new version of my SPServices library, I always release two versions: the regular JavaScript/jQuery file and the minified version of the same. Minification “squishes” the scripts down, removing comments, white space, etc. so that you can send as few bytes down the wire as possible to keep page load times snappy….
So much has been said already about how fantastic SharePoint Saturday DC was that I’m not sure that I have much to add. But I probably should at least repeat a few of the highlights for me. Almost 1000 people were in attendance. I’m not sure if that includes all of the blue shirts (presenters),…
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…
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…
Saturday, I saw this tweet from my pal Michael Greene (@webdes03): I usually look at what Michael retweets, and this one was intriguing. The link took me to Fancy checkboxes and radio buttons by Marko Dugonjić, a web professional from Velika Gorica, Croatia. In the article, Marko showed a deceptively simple, but very nice looking, way…
I was looking through the incoming links here on my blog tonight, and I noticed this one: Middle Tier (un método alternativo para desarrollar en SharePoint). Well, that was interesting enough to click on, for sure! What it led me to was a Spanish post which is basically a brief paraphrasing of The Middle Tier…
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…