News Flash: Wandering Office 365 Waffle, Or “Who Moved My Waffle?”

Call it the waffle or the App Launcher or whatever you want (internally it has the CSS class ms-Icon–waffle2, so I think Randy Drisgill [@drisgill] is right, as usual), but if you use Office 365 or the soon to be available SharePoint 2016, you probably click on it dozens of times a day. Recent changes to…

Moving from SPServices to Rest, Part 5: Using Promises with SOAP and REST

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Moving from SPServices to REST

Wouldn’t it be great if we could drive flying cars like the DeLorean in Back to the Future? Unfortunately, even though October 21, 2015 has passed us by, that’s not a reality yet. The science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Sometimes JavaScript promises can feel…

RequireJS Arrives in SharePoint Online Build 16.0.4230.1217 (Or Earlier?)

Ever watchful – and talented – guy that he is, my friend Paul Tavares (@paul_tavares) pinged me the other day on Twitter with a question. Hey. Question. On your O365, did you add RequireJS as a SOD? Noticed it was registered when I looked at the page code the other day. Paul has a Site Collection…

Moving from SPServices to REST, Part 4: Converting GetListItems to REST

This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series Moving from SPServices to REST

Summary: Because of the significant inconsistencies in the SOAP Web Services, converting your calls to REST will be a different process for each of them. In this article, we’ll look at the real workhorse of SPServices: GetListItems. When my mechanic works on my car, sometimes he tells me about some different tires or parts I…