I had the wonderful opportunity to speak at Boston Code Camp 28! My goal was to showcase the awesome work done over at the Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices initiative. This project provides real value to developers aiming to expand into the Office 365 space. We covered PowerShell and JavaScript libraries, reducing our development... Continue Reading →
Embedding your JavaScript into a SharePoint page
A very typical approach for client side development in SharePoint is to throw the code onto the page where you need it. You can alternatively put into the master page, but generally speaking, most code doesn't need to run on each and every page. The following describes my preferred, tried and true, method of handling this.... Continue Reading →
SharePoint: Hiding Ribbon and More with IsDlg
SharePoint has this neat little feature on every page that allows you to hide the header and nav on the page by simply appending isdlg=1 to the end (careful, it's case sensitive). It comes in handy when you're using a page viewer web part, you can show another page on your page and hide the... Continue Reading →
SharePoint Script: Hide or Disable your fields
This one has been on my list for a while. I've used a collection of JavaScript methods to help streamline customizing forms in lists. I have created and compiled this little collection starting probably 5-6 years ago, and over time I'm constantly updating, tweaking, enhancing it, especially more so as of late working with Office... Continue Reading →
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 →
A Non-Developer’s Intro to the Developer Toolbar: Scripting
Last week, we started in on a basic into to accessing your site's elements via the Developer Toolbar. This week, we will cover scripting with the Developer Toolbar, and all of its wonders. :) Don't worry, we're not going to actually write code, well, maybe one or two really simple lines of code. Trust me,... Continue Reading →