Determining the Current Site URL with jQuery and SharePoint’s Web Services

I’m not sure that I’m enamored with this as a solution, but I thought that I’d post this function to see what folks think and whether there are any better ideas out there.  (I’ve looked, and I certainly can’t find any!)  I’m building this function to sit in our SharePoint jQuery library, so I can’t…

Show Numbers with a Different Locale in a SharePoint DVWP

Here’s a great little trick from an MSDN Forum thread I was trying to help out in.  Thanks to Playerkiller for this one. Suppose you’d like just a single DVWP to display numbers (either currency or regular numbers) in a different locale than the host site.  This trick lets you do just that. Prerequisites: Numbers…

Experts Exchange Hack

If you, like me, find yourself clicking on links in Bing results which take you to http://www.experts-exchange.com just to be frustrated that you can’t see the answers, I recently stumbled across a hack to see them. I’m sure they will plug this once more people realize it, but in the search results, click on the…

Blog with Integrity

Gil Yehuda tweeted about Blog with Integrity today, and at first I was skeptical. But when I read the pledge, I was on board. By displaying the Blog with Integrity badge or signing the pledge, I assert that the trust of my readers and the blogging community is important to me. I treat others respectfully,…