At one of my clients, there’s a debate going on about whether to control which development tools people use or not. In my mind, that’s a no-brainer; absolutely! I say "Never let the inmates run the asylum." What I mean by this is that if you ask N developers what tools you should use, you’ll…
In one of my client projects, we kept seeing this error, and basically ignored it for a long time. In our case, we saw the errors specifically on pages that included NewsGator Web Parts and we thought they might be the problem, but it was actually a problem with the SharePoint AJAX settings which NewsGator would…
Every once in a while, I write a fairly long response to a question in one of my USPJ Academy courses that just feels like a blog post. Here’s another one of those. We’ve been discussing why you would choose to use DOM manipulation over custom .NET programming. Here’s one of my replies in the…
A student at USPJ Academy asked this question in a forum thread the other day: Can someone explain the advantages of using Custom Content Types in a List/Form Library as they pertain to making the rollup of data in a DVWP easier? I am not sure if this is true, but someone here at work…
This is a cool trick devised by one of my colleagues at my current client. (Confidentiality reigns supreme in client situations. Suffice it to say that this wasn’t my bright idea, but I give credit to the real thinker.) We were having trouble with caching of .js and .css files which we were deploying to the…