My 600th Blog Post
I promised myself that I’d do something really special for my 600th post. Here it is.
SharePointy Observations from Vacation
Yeah, I’m hanging out on a beach in Mexico (Morgan Freeman isn’t here; someone told me he stopped by many years ago), but I never really stop SharePointing; I’m a SharePointilist. A few observations from the lounge chair, each of which will probably turn into a full post itself: If you are publishing ANYTHING about…
SharePoint 2010 Datasheet View Bugaboo
I ran into this today and thought it might be something worth jotting down to save others the same pain. When you’re editing a list in Datasheet view in SharePoint 2010 and you’re working with a Calculated column, you can see the formula at the bottom of the view for the cell in which you…
jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (SPServices) v0.6.1 Released
Today (April 13), I released SPServices v0.6.1. This release doesn’t have a long list of changes from v0.6.0, but there is a new function which many people have asked for plus two other enhancements. For posterity, here are the changes: New Functionality Alpha Issue Tracker Item Function Description ALPHA1-2 5647 $().SPServices.SPFilterDropdown New Function Idea: Filter…
Windows 7 Explorer Sluggish? There’s a Fix!
Yet another thing that I’ve been suffering with and finally decided to tackle and straighten out! On my monster laptop, which is running Windows 7 64bit and does almost everything faster than believable, Windows Explorer has been driving me batty. It was slow to display the contents of folders and when I tried to go to…
Applause for Sadie Van Buren’s SharePoint Maturity Model
When I go into a new client, I immediately start watching for the subtle cues which will tell me how the project will go. I don’t have a formal checklist, but I pay attention to some things which might seem a little odd: the noise level in the office, the number of private offices vs….
"Please Upgrade Your Browser to IE8 or Above": But I’m Already Running IE8!
This one is from way off in left field, but it explains many oddities that I’ve seen over the last 6 or more months, I think. Stick with me as I explain it. There are some goodies along the way, as well as the solution to this problem. At the very least, I get to…
Real World SPServices Example: Checking Dates Against a Blackout List
I got an email from my blog this morning that asked an interesting question, and I thought that the answer might be generally of interest. Here’s the email, cleaned up a little: I feel glad to found your website which I can learn a lot from you. I would like to ask your opinion since…
SPServices v0.6.1ALPHA1 Released with New SPFilterDropdown Function
I wanted to do a quick post about SPServices v0.6.1ALPHA1. The one change in this ALPHA is to add a new function called SPFilterDropdown. I’ve had a lot of requests for this functionality lately, though it has come up on and off in the past as well. Note that this is an ALPHA release, and…
Book Review: “Enterprise Application Development in SharePoint 2010” by Ira Fuchs
I had the pleasure of meeting Ira Fuchs for the first time at SharePoint Fest Dallas a few weeks ago. Ira is a SharePoint Technical Specialist at Microsoft, so I’m guessing he has access to some of the brightest SharePoint minds in the world. As Ira and I were talking, he saw fit to gift…