Well, it took me a while, but I solve this problem. In my first post about it, I explained how I was having trouble figuring out what features installed in my local VM were causing the problems instantiating my demo site in Office365 – SharePoint Online. I got stuck with the feature that has the…
Today I’ve posted the first beta for SPServices v0.7.1. While it is only a point release, it contains more significant changes than its sibling, v0.7.0, which was mainly focused on publishing a version which would work with jQuery 1.7. If you are willing and able, I’d appreciate you testing this beta in any places where you…
It was a great honor that Mark Miller asked me to contribute to his new book called SharePoint at Work – Tricks, Traps, and Bold Opinions: The Best of EndUserSharePoint.com. The book is going to press now and the goal is to have copies available at SPTechCon in San Francisco later this month. (Sadly, I’m…
Here’s another one of those “Why didn’t I ever figure this out before?” things. Many times when I’m editing pages in SharePoint Designer and everything is going along swimmingly, suddenly I hear the Jaws theme and I get an error like this: One of the properties of the Web Part has an incorrect format. Microsoft…
Over a year ago, I built myself a virtual machine in VMWare Workstation so that I could hack around with it. I’ve used it for some client development, but mostly it’s where I work on the demos I use when I speak at events. Recently, when FPWeb decided to get out of the Exchange hosting…