The SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) has always been one of my favorite SharePoint conferences. It was the first big conference I ever spoke at, and the folks at BZMedia(where’s Katie’s photo???) who put it on are all aces, every single one of them. I only did one session at the latest iteration in Boston because I…
I’m a huge fan of Lookup columns in SharePoint. Choice columns just don’t give me enough oomph, and Managed Metadata Columns give me plenty of oomph, but not all that I need. With Lookup columns, I can lookup into the Title of a reference list, but also store additional information in that list which is…
A few months ago, I read a newspaper article – which unfortunately I can’t find – about the idea that software development literacy may someday seem as normal as reading literacy is today. I didn’t think it was far-fetched at all. In today’s world *everyone* touches a computer in some way, even if it’s only…
I’ve been working on several projects with good old SharePoint 2007 (MOSS). jQuery and jQueryUI sure can spice it up nicely. Recently, I decided I wanted to refresh the contents of a Data View Web Part (DVWP) based on a user selection – a simple click on one of a big set of links –…
Today, July 6 at about 4pm EDT, SPServices v0.7.1 received its 10,000th download Because I’m amused by this sort of thing, I was watching on my iPhone from my friend’s beach house. The animated GIF below shows it as I saw it happen. Notice that Toby Mai (@GrumpyTech) tweeted me right after he did the…