Over the last few days, I’ve been doing some more work with jQuery. It’s really a very cool abstraction on JavaScript, but it does take some getting used to. My latest challenge is to understand .animate. It’s pretty straightforward, but cross-browser issues can make it tricky. I’m having “special” trouble with opacity in Internet Explorer. …
While I think about my next pithy post on this topic, I thought I’d share some interesting perspectives from some of the folks I know in the blogosphere. Seems that a lot of us are thinking about this in a meta way these days. This is to be expected, as early adoption often resembles a…
I posted last September about Date Calculations in a DVWP. In that post, I pointed out Andy Lewis’ great post about how to do Filtering and Formatting with Date Values over at the Microsoft SharePoint Designer Team Blog. I’ve been answering quite a few questions about date arithmetic over at the MSDN forums lately, so…
Facebook, MySpace, WordPress, del.icio.us, Twitter, Live Spaces — Web Pages, Web Sites — HTML, Java, jQuery, Perl — SQL, Oracle, MySQL Oh, my. What on earth are you to do?!?!? These are just a few of the literally thousands (if not tens of thousands) of services, applications, technologies, databases, etc. that you could run into…
UPDATE 2009-08-26: We’ve translated this logic into our jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. I *strongly* suggest that you look at that as an option, as it is far more robust. And free! In my post last week entitled Cascading Dropdown Columns in a SharePoint Form – Part 1, I showed how to create cascading dropdowns,…