Ya know that awesome new interface we get in Office 365 called Modern Lists? Ya know how that's not editable, or customizable, or extensible? Well, ya know it right! It's not. However... Above is a typical modern list, in all of it's glory. Pretty right? But I want to add some of my own code... Continue Reading →
Before you make SharePoint Public – 2 more times
I wanted to quickly share on two more options for you to listen in on my session Before you make SharePoint Public. SP24 is reairing all of their sessions, this Wednesday and Thursday, May 14th - 15th. My session will be run Wednesday night, at 9pm EST. I hope you can make it. Check out the wrap up... Continue Reading →
24-Hour Devathon for a Cause
I am very proud to share that our team at Slalom is taking 24 hours out of this beautiful New England weekend for a SharePoint/Office 365 dev-a-thon to benefit local non profit Junior Achievement of Northern New England. From www.janewengland.org: The mission of Junior Achievement (JA) is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in... 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 →
My Users Don’t Like SharePoint Because It’s Just Ugly!
This is Part 4 of my series on 'My Users Don't Like SharePoint...' "Can you make it not look like SharePoint?" Sorry, I can't use the Mustang metaphor on this one, it's too beautiful. SharePoint can be a little rough to stare at day after day. It's basic, and a little boring. The 2010 interface... Continue Reading →
Customize the SharePoint Calendar Colors
I shared a post a while ago on how to create a color coded calendar in SharePoint. This is a no code (for real!) solution, and I've received some great feedback from it. One area I want to focus on are the colors. Let's go from blah To, well, more colorful, not sure if I'd... Continue Reading →
Why do you hate SharePoint?
Seriously, I want to know. Take this small survey and let me know what you think. Why do you hate SharePoint? the survey My goal here is two fold: first, for the industry to understand the headaches people face daily and two (more importantly) try to provide some solutions to make these headaches go away.... Continue Reading →
Giving mobile users the same experience in SharePoint 2010
In most cases, when I design and build a custom branded solution for a SharePoint site, the customer wants the site to render the same for mobile devices. Instead, SharePoint redirects the user to a different layout. This request is quite common across the world wide web. Most sites you visit on your computer will... Continue Reading →
SharePoint 2010: Create unique login page with forms based authentication
An awesome feature with SharePoint is the ability to use another authentication store for your users. This is especially helpful when you want to extend your site to an extranet or internet zone and you don't want your external users in your company Active Directory. I walk through configuring and setting up CBA here. Once... Continue Reading →