This is part four of my mini-series, part one covered element inspection, part two covers scripting and part three covered performance. In this, my final post, I will cover some of the other neat things the developer toolbar does for us. I may get a little deeper than a non-developers point of view. All of the items below... Continue Reading →
There’s more than meets the eye: Differences between SharePoint’s Oslo and Seattle master pages
If you've been looking at the neat new masterpages with SharePoint 2013, and playing around with changing them, you can quite easily see a difference between the two options: Oslo and Seattle. Seattle is what we're used to with SharePoint 2010: left nav and a top nav. Oslo moves the left nav to the top,... Continue Reading →
Look ma, I’m one of the Top 50 SharePoint Sites!
I have had the honor to be named part of the Top 50 SharePoint Sites by Dynamics101.com. Seeing the other stars on this list, I think they may have me confused with someone else. :) Thanks!!
A Non-Developer’s Intro to the Developer Toolbar: Performance
Sorry for the delay in getting this last post in, it completely skipped my mind. This is part three of my mini-series, part one covered element inspection and part two covers scripting. In this post, we will look into some of the performance tools available to the developer toolbar in Internet Explorer. This will allow... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2013 Sandbox Solutions: Declarative or User Code, what’s dead really?
UPDATED! Microsoft has finally come out of their hole and shared! From the SharePoint dev blog posted 1/14/2014: While developing sandboxed solutions that contain only declarative markup and JavaScript -- which we call no-code sandboxed solutions (NCSS) -- is still viable, we have deprecated the use of custom managed code within the sandboxed solution. We have... Continue Reading →
My kids cleaned up at #SPTechCon Boston!
My kids LOVE when I go to conferences, they always make out really well. I do my best to collect as much swag as possible for them. Thanks for all you vendors who let me be a hero. I know who I'll be calling :-) I made out at SPTechCon Boston as well. I attended... Continue Reading →
Slide Deck: Don’t Upgrade to SharePoint 2013! #BASPUG
Last night I had to great privilege to share why I think you shouldn't upgrade to SharePoint 2013 at the Boston SharePoint User Group. No, I'm not an anti-Microsoft guy, I love SharePoint, especially 2013. I wanted to walk through what it's going to take to upgrade, all of the costs (infrastructure, customizations, training, etc)... Continue Reading →
Highlighting your late events in your SharePoint Timeline
You give a guy an inch, and he wants a mile. Fortunately I love SharePoint and don't mind figuring out this fun stuff. Last week I posted on how to color code your timeline. That same colleague was grateful for the coloring, then asked if I can highlight late items in red. Obviously I said... Continue Reading →
Coloring your SharePoint Timeline in one line of code
I just had a colleague ask me "Can we color code a timeline?". I, of course, answered "Sure!". I had a little wiggle room in my day so I busted this out. Let's go from the all blue timeline: To something that indicates where your are, a little more visually: One line of code, BOOM:... Continue Reading →
I’m presenting: Don’t Upgrade to SharePoint 2013 – BASPUG July 17th
I am quite excited about my first presentation in a few years. I'm presenting at the Boston Area SharePoint User Group on July 17th. Session Abstract Thinking of upgrading to SharePoint 2013? Should you? You have seen and heard the amazing new features and advancements SharePoint 2013 brings, from social to apps. But should you upgrade?... Continue Reading →
