I love my iPhone. I mean I *really* love my iPhone. I’ve had it for about a month and a half now, and it is truly an amazing piece of technology and extremely well done. As most of us who are fundamentally Microsoft folks say, “Microsoft take note”! However, here’s a little bugaboo with SharePoint…
I’ve always been a lazy programmer and if you can believe it, I see this as a good thing. I never want to write anything more than once. (I’ve written an assembler-based keyboard handler for DOS. Do I need to do it again? As much fun as it was: no.) I also believe that the…
Lookup columns in SharePoint can be very useful as a way to standardize input values. One of the drawbacks of Lookup columns is that they violate the Rules of Data Normalization (see my previous post entitled “SharePoint Is Not a Database”). Specifically, by storing the text value of the lookup rather than the ID, we…
This is a simple enough task with a little JavaScript. Inserting the script below into your master page will output the date and time in the simplest way possible when the page is rendered: If your language is American English, you will see the following: Fri Oct 24 18:19:06 EDT 2008. Of course, if you’d…
This is something that I’ve told people more times than they really want to hear. Sure, SharePoint sits on top of SQL Server, which is an excellent database, but SharePoint itself is not a database! So is this a dire “abandon all hope, ye who enter here” message? Absolutely not. With planning and forethought, you…