SPServices Passes 100,000 Total Downloads

Here are some numbers for the meaningless-but-fun-statistics bin. Codeplex collects a bunch of numbers for me, so I can preserve them here. Yesterday, Sunday, October 27th, 2013, SPServices crossed the 100,000 total downloads threshold. I posted the first version of SPServices (SPServices 0.2.3) on Codeplex on Aug 19th, 2009 as an alpha. That means it’s…

Should You Use the ‘var $this = $(this);’ Syntax in jQuery?

The other day I tweeted that I May succumb to this this syntax: var $this = $(this);* Because I use Hootsuite and it’s a simple button push, I also posted it to Facebook. George Winters saw it there and wondered what I meant. I was referring to a common jQuery coding practice. In the past,…

Single-Page Applications (SPAs) in SharePoint Using SPServices – Part 2 – GetListItems

As I mentioned in the first part of the series, we have several workhorse operations at our disposal in the SOAP Web Services with which we can build our Single-page Applications (SPAs). (Of course, which API you use is somewhat unimportant. All of the techniques here should work using REST or CSOM, too. I’m just…

SPServices Stories #17: Multiple Form Fields Autocomplete for SharePoint 2010/2013 using JavaScript

This entry is part 16 of 21 in the series SPServices Stories

Introduction Anyone who follows this series knows that I’m always on the lookout for interesting and useful implementations of SPServices. A few weeks ago, a tweet in my feeds caught my eye: Just posted multiple fields autocomplete jQuery plugin using @sympmarc's SPServices http://t.co/Z8WJSDVakQ — Plumsail (@plumsail_sp) August 21, 2013 Anton Khritonenkov, who is a Technical…