Growing Awareness / Adoption of JavaScript Frameworks
Collega, Javed Ansari (http://www.bigapplesharepoint.com/team?showExpertName=Javed%20Ansari&rsource=pgblog), wrote a short summary blog post on frameworks he likes or at least has been using with...
View ArticleHow Much Does It Cost To Build a World Class Intranet On SharePoint?
Collega, David Drinkwine, does a (slightly more than) pen-on-napkin estimate for building a truly world class intranet for a large enterprise organization. You can read about it here:...
View Article“We Don’t Want SharePoint To Look Like SharePoint”
I’ve always been a function-over-form kind of person. I’ll take a challenging user interface over something pretty any day – provided the payout is worth it. Consider Dwarf Fortress . This is pretty...
View Article“We Don’t Want SharePoint To Look Like SharePoint”
I’ve always been a function-over-form kind of person. I’ll take a challenging user interface over something pretty any day – provided the payout is worth it. Consider Dwarf Fortress . This is pretty...
View ArticleAnd Now For Something Completely Different, With Pictures!
Collega, Anil Ferris, took a break from his endless lab building, breaking and rebuilding to write a gem of a blog post on Likability – and I’m not just calling it a gem because he fit in a great...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup – June 29 2014
I read a ton of stuff over the course of the week (one of the happy side effects of commuting into New York). Some of the bits and pieces I pick up strike me as particularly interesting and I thought...
View ArticleView CAML Queries in Real Time With ULS Viewer
Collega, Ashsih Patel, wrote up a nice walk-through describing how to see the CAML behind various SP queries that happen in the course of business in real-time using the ULS viewer. Hic in intro: Did...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup – July 13, 2014
I for to xpost this here over the past weekend. Here’s the 3rd article in a series where I write about blog posts and online articles that were especially interesting to me in the last week or so....
View ArticleDistracting Design and Drunk on the Feature Coolaid
Collega, Lauren Jones (https://twitter.com/laurenjones02) wrote up an short article talking about how overly complex SP rollouts are very hard on end users. It’s sort of obvious, in a way, but it’s...
View ArticleCreating Custom SharePoint Forms Without a Master Page
Collega, Lauren Jones, wrote up a nice walk-through on how to create a custom data entry form using SharePoint Designer. That’s not exactly “new under the sun” but there’s a bit of twist. In her...
View ArticleAngular Fails to Bootstrap in IE9
I’ve been playing around with Angular.js for the last long while and for the life of me, I could NOT get my Angular apps to launch in IE9. They all work fine in IE11 but IE9 would just show the curly...
View ArticleThe New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Takes Another Victim
Ita, my son is a bit overdue obtaining his driving permit. Yesterday, in mid morning, he trucks up to Oakland NJ to get it. He gets there, fills out his paperwork is issued an unstamped permit and...
View ArticleHow-to: Enable Multiple Angular SharePoint Parts in Web Page Same
This blog posts describes how you can have multiple Angular.js based SharePoint web parts (referenced via a content editor web part) on the same page. I’m calling a content editor web part (CEWP) that...
View ArticleHTTP 406 Error When Using Angular $http.get Against SharePoint REST End Points
Update: Marc AD ndersson pointed out this great piece of info:http://blogs.office.com/2014/08/13/json-light-support-rest-sharepoint-api-released/. That explains a lot . That may be the worst title of...
View ArticleIE9 Really Doesn’t Like It When You Take A Shortcut With Your Tags
I’ve fallen into a bad habit of using Chrome all the time. It’s “bad” because the stuff I develop really needs to run on a lot of other web browsers, possidet, sadly IE8. My work laptop has IE9...
View ArticleTrouble-shooting Tip For Angular Directives (Aut, Learning To Love Hyphens...
I have a couple of apps that make $http.get() calls and I wanted to be able to show a nicely formatted error message with ugly error details hidden, but accessible. Basically, hoc: And then if the...
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