I got an email today from someone I didn’t know through my blog. Here’s the gist of it, edited a bit to remove a few details: I work in sales and marketing for a company that develops software for government agencies. A lot of our potential customers are moving to SharePoint 2010 in the future….
Heather Waterman and I were talking about some stuff today (Name dropper, you say? Absolutely!) and she pointed out an interesting little trick with an SharePoint:AspMenu control. SharePoint:AspMenu controls are used in SharePoint to dynamically create navigational elements like the top navigation tabs. In SharePoint 2007, those tabs were rendered as pretty complicated TABLE constructs,…
There’s a long thread over at EndUserSharePoint.com‘s Stump the Panel where I’m trying to help someone to set up some jQuery to do some calculations in the form to check if the values are valid. The person (handles don’t always give away gender!) is struggling (IMHO) with the difference between server-side and client-side code. There’s…
<UPDATE date=”2011-02-14″>: As of jQuery 1.5, single quotes are *required* around z:row or any other similar node selector. This was actually “required” in previous versions of jQuery, but not enforced. </UPDATE> Kevin Carbonaro posted a neat little gadget example to the SPServices Discussions today, and I thought it was slick enough that it deserved a…
I got an interesting email today. I work with a company called Portal Front Hosting, a dedicated SharePoint hosting provider, and we have a new WordPress theme that is free to download and is inspired by SharePoint 2010. The link to a preview and download the theme can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sharepointforwordpress. Since you discuss…