There’s a great article in the Boston Sunday Globe today entitled The Leased Life. It talks about what is termed the “product service system”. The basic idea is that many of the things we buy we don’t buy because we want the thing itself, but what the thing can do for us. We buy tomatoes…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:template> Think of a template as a subroutine. It’s a unit of XSL to which you pass control. A template in a Data View Web Part’s (DVWP’s) XSL is a really important “unit of measure”. When you first drop a DVWP on the page and configure it, SharePoint Designer will automagically create…
I’ve been meaning to revisit my post from November 1 last year entitled jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services: Interim Update on What’s Coming Up in v0.5.0. I wanted to see how I was doing, if I’d forgotten about anything, etc. Reading through the post, I’m happy to say that I’m still having the fun…
I’m going to capture the things I find that are problems as I upgrade my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services from jQuery 1.3.2 to the just released jQuery 1.4. In theory everything ought to work as is, but we all know that life doesn’t always work that way. As I find things, I’ll add them to this…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) are, to me, the most powerful feature in SharePoint. You’ve probably heard them called the Swiss Army Knife of SharePoint and there’s really very little that you can’t display with them if you understand how they work. But understanding the inner working of DVWPs requires knowledge of…
I released v0.4.8 of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services yesterday. As always, I recommend an upgrade, as I continue to make efficiency boosts in each version. Significant in 0.4.8, I made the $().SPServices.SPGetCurrentSite function smarter, so that it only calls the Webs Web Service’s WebUrlFromPageUrl operation once per page to cut down on…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Please forgive me; it’s been over one month since my last confession article in this series. When last we spoke, I left you with the details of how one of the Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) – sections A and B below – on…
Whoa, I’m really falling down on my blogging lately. It’s not that I don’t have as much to say, it’s that Twitter and other things end up taking more of my time these days. ("Microblogging" is the word we use to make tweets legitimate.) So here’s something. I think I may have outlined this a…
On the occasion of my blogs’ first birthday here at WordPress (it’s longer in the tooth than that, but I migrated over from Windows Live Spaces on 2009-01-06), I wanted to have a party, but that seemed excessive. Instead, in an a propos coincidence, I saw a post over at my friend Christophe’s fantastic Path…
There’s a new, revived Stump the Panel over at EndUserSharePoint.com as of today. Those of you who follow EndUserSharePoint (@EUSP) know about the difficulties they had last month when their hosting provider shut them down due to high trafiic. (Sort of a good *and* bad problem to have!) Well, Stump the Panel is back with a…