I noticed a nice little trick going by in my Twitter feeds today. I’ve always wanted to know how to do this. Displaying the right formats for dates and times as well as the right offset from UTC is a real challenge from the client side. There’s a fantastic library called Moment.js that I use…
For years people have been asking me how they could upload files using SPServices. I’ve dodged the questions every time because I simply didn’t know how. On a current client project, I’m building a slick Single Page Application (SPA) to manage tasks in SharePoint 2010. It’s basically a veneer over the clunky out-of-the-box task list…
A few weeks back, I sat down (virtually, of course) with Andrew Connell (@AndrewConnell) and Chris Johnson (@LoungeFlyZ) to record an episode of the Microsoft Cloud Show. Andrew was in Florida, I was in Boston, and Chris was way around the world in New Zealand. Ah, the wonders of modern technology. The only place to…
In SharePoint 2007, we could build lists that contained as many items as we wanted and access them in any way we wanted. We may have done stupid things that were bad for server performance, but if we knew what we were doing there were few limits. We had the mythical “2000 item” rule of…
If you go to TechNet to find out where the thesaurus files for search are so that you can add in your own synonyms, you may be as confused as I was earlier today. It only took me about 20 minutes to figure out, but if three or four people find this post, we’ll have…