I frequently have people ask me whether they should store jQuery libraries in house or reference external Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) instead. I see plusses and minuses for using the various CDNs out there. (There are several big ones: Google, Microsoft, etc.) Reducing the ‘hits on the server’ thing is potentially one plus, but unless…
When I saw that iOS4 was out, I did what I always do with my iPhone: I upgraded. I blindly grab Apple’s upgrades every time. Sure, I should know better given what I do for a living, but when it comes to my iPhone, I’m just a plain old consumer. This time, it wasn’t so…
I just found out that my two sessions at SPTechCon in October right at home in Boston will be one right after the other on Thursday. Session 202 Data View Web Part Basics Thursday, October 21, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Session 306 Enhancing the User Experience With jQuery Thursday, October 21, 1:15 PM –…
My pal Christophe Humbert at PathToSharePoint.com forwarded me a question from one of his readers earlier today. I didn’t know the answer, but it intrigued me enough to track down the answer. Something that a lot of people don’t realize is that every List View Web Part (LVWP) you use in your SharePoint pages contains…
One of the great things about being on the faculty at the USPJ Academy is getting to engage in the type of discussions that I recall as being so rewarding in my academic career. There’s no immediate business crisis at hand, just a bunch of motivated, interested people kicking around ideas to see what makes…
Tonight I’m releasing SPServices v0.5.6. The changes in this release aren’t major, but they are still important. Jaap Vossers (that’s a link to Jaap’s SharePointOverflow profile because his blog seems to have gone missing as I write this) spotted a bug in the core SPServices function that I hadn’t ever caught. If he supplied a…
If you’re in the Boston, MA, USA area tonight, come to the second meeting of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group at the Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD) Center, located in Cambridge. The first meeting was a great gathering, with almost 100 attendees. Even if the topic for each meeting isn’t of prime…
Rarely in my career have I been as jazzed about something which I have been involved with as I am about the USPJ Academy. We held our inauguration event on 31 May, and now we’ve got classes up and running and students walking the virtual halls. Founded by my friends Bjørn Furuknap and Anil Sharma,…
Today I released the next version of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (aka SPServices) to Codeplex: v0.5.5. It’s been far too long since the last release, but I’ve been very busy working on client projects and helping to get the USPJ Academy up and running. Given that there have been 1668 downloads of…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… About a month ago, at the suggestion of @iwkid, I created a new Codeplex project called SPXSLT. My goal was to start providing a library of useful XSL templates for people to use in Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) or Content Query Web Parts (CQWPs) in SharePoint. It’s a bit different from most…