I released SPServices v0.5.8 on 14 November, 2010, but I’m already hard at work on v0.6.0. A major goal for this release is to refactor the code, looking to reduce the size of codebase and improve efficiency, yet maintain readability. This should be a significantly improved release internally, and will require more extensive testing than…
Mark Rackley (@mrackley) is definitely earning the salary I’m paying him as the Marketing Manager for SPServices. (Yes, that salary is zero.) He posted another great article about Using SPServices & jQuery to Clone a Parent Item and All its Children today, and I wanted to point out a few things about it. I’m not…
Earlier today I released SPServices v0.5.8. The headlines for this release are: more operations, including the first SharePoint 2010 (SP2010) only operation, and a new function, SPUpdateMultipleListItems. SocialDataService The Social Data Service Web Service is the first SP2010-only Web Service I’ve added to SPServices. This Web Service allows you to interact with the new social…
<UPDATE date=”2011-02-14″>: As of jQuery 1.5, single quotes are *required* around z:row or any other similar node selector. This was actually “required” in previous versions of jQuery, but not enforced. </UPDATE> I often get questions like “Why would you use the Web Services? Can’t you just use managed code and be done with it?” Once…
Live and learn. Maybe that’s my mantra. One thing I can tell you is that the first time I come up with a way to do something, it’s rarely the best. If I look at some old code of mine and think it’s perfect, I worry. We all are learning all the time, and it’s…