Bjørn Furuknap announced the faculty of the new USPJ Academy today. I’m excited about that because I’m one of the faculty members! Bjørn reached out to me back in January about joining up with the Academy, and after talking through his plans in person at the SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) in February, I signed on…
As I posted last week, I’m going to start certifying the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) functions for use with SharePoint 2010. In thinking through how best to do that, I realized that I needed a good, clear way to indicate what I’ve tested and whether there are any caveats you might need…
I just noticed that in the Tools section of the administration pages on my hosted WordPress blog (this one), I can insert the metadata tags which the big sites’ Webmaster tools require to verify a site. By doing this verification, you can improve your readership and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for your blog. If you’re…
I’m looking forward to the SharePoint Evolution Conference coming up soon in London. As usual, I was Last Minute Charlie planning this, so I missed trying to get on the agenda to speak by a long shot. I’m hoping that I’ll get to have many great impromptu conversations about things like jQuery and Data View Web Parts…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Another day, another wunnerful article about the DVWP. This time, I’m going to cover some of the most useful “built-in” Field / Node functions. These are functions that are a part of XSL itself and help you work with nodes in the result set. A node is a geekier term for a…
After posting my sort of rambling, pointless What’s Next for Me and Sympraxis Consulting?, I got a *lot* of very useful and kind responses. (If you like that rambling, here’s another fix for you.) Many of the responses were direct, so you can’t see them in the comments on the post. This is going to…
It’s a little late, but I wanted to get a blog post out about v0.5.2. I released in on Sunday, March 7. Since then there have already been almost 200 downloads! Also see my prior post for information about the library with SharePoint 2010. There was one interesting thing I dealt with in this release which…
For months now when people have asked me about whether the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services will work with SharePoint 2010, I’ve been pretty much dodging the question. I didn’t want to spend the time testing with beta software (my alphas and betas are always open to changes) and I didn’t want to mislead…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… If you’ve been following this series, you’ve seen me write about the ddwrt namespace functions multiple times. They are extremely helpful functions that really aren’t documented in any formal way. A few of them show up in the XPath Expression Builder, but most of them are a mystery unless you find Serge…
Here’s a nice little jQuery tip I found today. If you want to break out of an each loop in jQuery, you can do it by returning false. Here’s the real example from $().SPServices.SPArrangeChoices: Tip ‘o the tam ‘o shanter to crad on tumblr for this one.