Working Title: Black Magic Solutions for White Hat SharePoint

Here’s something really exciting. I’m one of nine authors for an upcoming SharePoint book we’re putting together with Mark Miller (@EUSP), good old Mr. EndUserSharePoint himself. It’s going to be all about using script with SharePoint in interesting and (we hope!) useful ways. As with our SharePoint 2010 at Work: Tricks, Traps, and Bold Opinions book, we’re each…

Using _spPageContextInfo to Determine the Current SharePoint Context in Script

Sahil Malik had an extremely useful little post about a month back that I emailed to myself and then promptly forgot. Today, Mikael Svenson pointed back to Sahil’s in a post of his own that is also very useful. I’m going to steal a little from both posts for this one. I hope Sahil and Mikael don’t…

SPServices Stories #12 – SharePoint and jQuery SPServices in Education: A Case Study

This entry is part 12 of 21 in the series SPServices Stories

Introduction Ben Tedder (@bentedder) has long been a fan of SPServices and his writing about it is great, to boot. I liked this post back when Ben first put it up on his blog because it really does tell a story, and SPServices plays a significant role in it. Ben has built quite a few real-world…