I was not always a big fan of Javascript. To me it was always just a “side” language that took care of the intricate details that server side languages couldn’t handle. Mostly DOM manipulations, browser events and such. Sending data back and forth client and server was always a GET and a POST – nothing […]

Working with SharePoint’s REST API is pretty cool. Lately, I’ve been writing plenty of applications where the entire CRUD is involved; all using SharePoint lists behind the scenes. Meaning, the entire front end is entirely up to me to build. This way, I can use different JavaScript libraries and frameworks when building these interfaces. Note […]

From time to time, I just look at my blogs and see what I can add to it to make it more appealing to the user. I’ve always admired those sites that tell you what number of posts a certain category has, and what number of posts it is currently showing. So I set out […]

So I had a recent task of designing an infowindow for a Google map. Just in case you do not know, Google maps API has the ability of overlaying some HTML on top of a marker, also known as an “infowindow“. The problem is, the default infowindow has limited options for HTML styling. View Demo […]

SharePoint 2013 has a REST API that exposes plenty of information about users, lists and document libraries. For front end developers, this is a gold mine. A gold mine because of two things: 1) SharePoint’s out of the box UI is pretty bad, and 2) SharePoint’s out of the box UI is pretty bad. Update […]

So I had another challenge at my work. You see, we use plenty of SharePoint based sites, and a lot of the markup that it outputs is table based – especially the contents of a list. Now this is fine for tabular data and such – but in mobile view, it renders horribly. The rows […]