I love SharePoint. I really do. I especially love writing client side code to build awesome applications for my clients. Today’s annoyance, though, comes while I am in the process of rewriting an application I built on SharePoint 2007, porting it to SharePoint Online in Office 365. This ought to feel like a huge leap…
The other day, a client asked me a pretty classic set of questions about customizing SharePoint Online list forms. As with some other arenas of endeavor in Office 365, there is more than one way of doing things and it can be confusing. I am looking at options to customize List forms on sites in…
Over the break, I managed to get SPServices up and running on GitHub. You may wonder what that means and why it matters. When I started moving SPServices away from Codeplex, it was due to several things: Codeplex seems to be dying a whimpering death. Microsoft is clearly not maintaining it anymore, and its tech…
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…
There are still reasons to love the SOAP Web Services (hopefully using SPServices!) even though they have been deprecated by Microsoft in SharePoint 2013 (and one can assume to upcoming SharePoint 2016) and SharePoint Online. There are times when the REST API just doesn’t provide functionality we need, and the SOAP Web Services are a…