I’ve had a wonderful time over the last four days as an attendee and speaker at two great SharePoint events. The first one was SharePoint Saturday Boston, right in my own backyard at Microsoft’s offices in Waltham, MA. Helping Pradeepa Siva, Talbott Crowell (@talbott), and Geoff Varosky (@gvaro) with the organizing a bit certainly gave…
OK, I admit it. Now that SPServices is available on a CDN, I’m coming around to thinking that CDNs might be a good idea in some cases. I had been balking at using them primarily from a control standpoint, and I’m still concerned with that aspect. When you host the script and CSS files you…
Mark Rackley (@MrAckley) and I had a Twonversation with Jeff Jones (@SPJeff) about a month ago about when it is good to use SharePoint’s Client Side Object Model (CSOM) over SPServices. You can see the important bits of that conversation in the image to the right. (Yeah, it’s taken us forever to get this post done. I…
A couple of cool things happened today with SPServices that I thought I’d capture in a post. First, I saw a couple of tweets this morning from Ryan Kirkman (@ryan_kirkman). Ryan runs a CDN for JavaScript solutions called cdnjs. CDNJS was started in January 2011 as an attempt to speed up the web. It was…
I’m planning to dig into HTML5 topics as a natural extension of my SPServices work. This post isn’t muck of a post, but more of a placeholder to collect ideas from you. I’m interested in what you’d like to know about HTML5, what you think you’d like to do with it connected to SharePoint, and what…