Rarely in my career have I been as jazzed about something which I have been involved with as I am about the USPJ Academy. We held our inauguration event on 31 May, and now we’ve got classes up and running and students walking the virtual halls. Founded by my friends Bjørn Furuknap and Anil Sharma,…
Today I released the next version of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (aka SPServices) to Codeplex: v0.5.5. It’s been far too long since the last release, but I’ve been very busy working on client projects and helping to get the USPJ Academy up and running. Given that there have been 1668 downloads of…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… About a month ago, at the suggestion of @iwkid, I created a new Codeplex project called SPXSLT. My goal was to start providing a library of useful XSL templates for people to use in Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) or Content Query Web Parts (CQWPs) in SharePoint. It’s a bit different from most…
Here’s proof that you should never stop learning (or at least trying to learn). I ran across a post on the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum just now that showed me a trick I’d never run into before. I don’t know that I’ve ever had the need to show file attachments for items in…
This is one of those “How could I have been so stupid?” things. I like to tell all of you about these in the hopes that if you read the post, it’ll lodge somewhere in the back of your mind and the next time you find yourself cursing and unable to figure some silly thing…
When I release a new version of my SPServices library, I always release two versions: the regular JavaScript/jQuery file and the minified version of the same. Minification “squishes” the scripts down, removing comments, white space, etc. so that you can send as few bytes down the wire as possible to keep page load times snappy….
I was just vainly searching myself on Google (in the context of playing with https://vizibility.com, so it’s not that bad), and I ran across two articles by Marc Solomon at KMWorld.com that had quotes from me. I had talked to Marc back in January, and pretty much had forgotten about it. Marc is very active…
This is a total "Why the heck didn’t I know this???" thing. Since I upgraded to Windows 7, I’ve been manually minimizing all my windows to get to the desktop and each time cursing those Windows devils for removing the Show Desktop icon from the Windows Quick Launch. The one that I’ve been used to…
I think I’ve typed bits and pieces of this post to people a few hundred times. Why I have never thought to make it a post is beyond me! SharePoint renders dropdowns in forms two different ways, depending on how many options there are in the column. If there are fewer than 20 options, then…
It’s always interesting to me what people decide to write to me about directly versus in forums or as comments here on my blog. Here’s one that I think is definitely of general interest that I got today. I’ve edited a little and scrubbed a few things out of it, as it’s clear that the…