Every once in a while, I’m sort of OK with blowing my own horn. One year into the life of my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services, now usually known as SPServices, I’m feeling pretty good about it. I first started writing the bits and pieces back in July, 2009 after reading a great blog…
I’ve been going back and forth with my pals @jbhoward (Jim Bob Howard), @iOnline247(Matt Bramer), and @webdes03(Michael Greene) today about how best to dynamically load jQuery libraries. We were all interested in the possibility of determining on the fly whether to load the jQuery library itself conditionally from an external CDN (like the Google Ajax…
Tonight I’m releasing SPServices v0.5.6. The changes in this release aren’t major, but they are still important. Jaap Vossers (that’s a link to Jaap’s SharePointOverflow profile because his blog seems to have gone missing as I write this) spotted a bug in the core SPServices function that I hadn’t ever caught. If he supplied a…
Today I released the next version of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (aka SPServices) to Codeplex: v0.5.5. It’s been far too long since the last release, but I’ve been very busy working on client projects and helping to get the USPJ Academy up and running. Given that there have been 1668 downloads of…
When I release a new version of my SPServices library, I always release two versions: the regular JavaScript/jQuery file and the minified version of the same. Minification “squishes” the scripts down, removing comments, white space, etc. so that you can send as few bytes down the wire as possible to keep page load times snappy….