Secrets of successful SharePoint Intranets from Michal Pisarek

Today i’m going to show you how to script Sharepoint through the GUI. Whilst in this example we’ll be running the code on server the same concepts and approach can be used to Script it from any machine that can hit the relevant website.

Dirty, but quite handy if you don’t have access to server-side scripting or deployment.

Then compare it with the source material:

Ataque de Pánico! (Panic Attack!) 2009 – YouTube

Covers several approaches for user interface customization in SP2013 – using JSLink to customize a list and/or view, creating custom Display Templates for the Content Search web part, and different approaches for customizing the search hover panel.

Improve the quality of SharePoint code by detecting violations, creating inventory reports of all content in custom SharePoint solutions and analyzing dependencies between SharePoint elements.

Transmedia Storytelling from Ginaluca Fiorelli.

The client’s use case was as follows: they needed a way to be able to plot office locations on a map with contractually agreed to boundaries around them. These boundaries may be a specific radius around an office location or an irregularly shaped polygon. Once these are plotted on the map they required the ability to plot an address on the map to determine whether the address fell within any of the predefined boundaries.

Micro-frameworks are definitely the pocketknives of the JavaScript library world: short, sweet, to the point. And at 5k and under, micro-frameworks are very very portable. A micro-framework does one thing and one thing only — and does it well. No cruft, no featuritis, no feature creep, no excess anywhere.

This article explains how to change the Master Page through the Client-Side Object Model (JavaScript Object Model).

SharePoint in the Cloud from Jeff Jones.

There are many ways to make an intranet homepage completely useless to the people using it, and many reasons why this happens. Even with some great insights into what staff need, it can be a slow process to evolve an intranet and its homepage from useless to useful.

This article looks at a range of homepage examples through the lens of ‘usefulness’…

A brief history of transmedia world building from Jeff Watson

Outlines history of transmedia “world-building” in a variety of contexts, from religion to contemporary art practice. Prepared for a student seminar at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Power has been an underdeveloped concept in the rhetoric surrounding the use of social intranets. Expressions like “liberation” and “enhanced collaboration” and “empowerment” are common in marketing, but is this really the case? How does power really work in the social intranet? Who is in control? What are the opportunities of this new model? What are the risks?

Using ideas developed by communications scholar Manuel Castells and his work Communication Power, this post introduces how we can understand network power inside of organizations and contemplate its effects.

Why would you use Search Driven? Good question. Let’s ask “why not”? The answer is the index latency. Search Driven Solutions are based on the search index and that means that the data freshness depends on the index freshness.

Tessie Girl: The Stephen King Universe Flow Chart.

In the era of convergence, television producers are developing transmedia narratives to cater to consumers who are willing to follow their favorite shows across multiple media channels. At the same time, there still remains a need to preserve an internally coherent television show for more traditional viewers. This thesis offers a model for how transmedia storytelling can coexist with and enhance a television narrative, using Lost as a case study. By building a world to be discovered, creating a hierarchy of strategic gaps, focusing on the unique capabilities of each extension, and using the “validation effect” to reward fans for their cross-media traversals, television/transmedia producers can provide a satisfying experience for hard-core and casual fans alike.

Transmedia Storytelling in Television 2.0 by Aaron Smith, 2009

CAVE2™ Hybrid Reality Environment Documentary – YouTube
CAVE2 – Hybrid Reality Environment, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago

Create a SharePoint-hosted app that uses the REST service to publish a post and get the personal feed for the current user.

A simple example of how you can utilize the REST Search API’s in SharePoint 2013 to perform a search.

Learn how to retrieve user properties and user profile properties programmatically by using the SharePoint 2013 JavaScript object model.

In this topic, you learn how you can use the Excel ServicesECMAScript (JavaScript, JScript) (JavaScript) API to programmatically work with an embedded Excel workbook that is stored on SkyDrive.

When you use Design Manager to create a page layout, two files are created: an .aspx file that SharePoint uses, and an HTML version of that page layout that you can edit in your HTML editor. The HTML file and page layout are associated, so that whenever you edit and save the HTML file, your changes are synced to the associated page layout.

With Design Manager, you can convert an.html file into a SharePoint 2013 master page, a .master file. After the conversion, the HTML file and master page are associated, so that when you edit and save the HTML file, the changes are synced to the associated master page.

[...] in SharePoint 2013, Microsoft have extended the SPField with a new proprety called JSLink which is a JavaScript Link property. There’s a JSLink property on the SPField class as well as a “JS Link” property on for example List View Web Parts. If we specify this property and point to a custom JavaScript file we can have SharePoint render our fields in a certain way. We can also tell for example our List View Web Parts to point to a specific JavaScript file, so they’re also extended with the JS Link property.

SharePoint 2013 REST API, endpoints, and samples

Learn how to write code to perform basic operations using the JavaScript client object model in SharePoint 2013.

How Motion Pictures Became the Movies 1908-1920 on Vimeo on Vimeo

IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept Microsoft Research project designed to push the boundary of living room immersive entertainment by blending our virtual and physical worlds with projected visualizations. The effects in the video are rendered in real time and are captured live — not special effects added in post processing.

IllumiRoom Projects Images Beyond Your TV for an Immersive Gaming Experience – YouTube.

Explore the BBC sound of the 1960s with our 4 demos of Radiophonic equipment, built with the new Web Audio API standard. Each demo comes with commented code, so you can learn how to build your own audio applications.

OrgOrgChart – Autodesk Research.

The OrgOrgChart (Organic Organization Chart) project looks at the evolution of a company’s structure over time. A snapshot of the Autodesk organizational hierarchy was taken each day between May 2007 and June 2011, a span of 1498 days.

Each day the entire hierarchy of the company is constructed as a tree with each employee represented by a circle, and a line connecting each employee with his or her manager. Larger circles represent managers with more employees working under them. The tree is then laid out using a force-directed layout algorithm.

Find out how to use server-side rendering with Content Search Web Part in SharePoint 2013.