There’s a long thread over at EndUserSharePoint.com‘s Stump the Panel where I’m trying to help someone to set up some jQuery to do some calculations in the form to check if the values are valid. The person (handles don’t always give away gender!) is struggling (IMHO) with the difference between server-side and client-side code. There’s…
<UPDATE date=”2011-02-14″>: As of jQuery 1.5, single quotes are *required* around z:row or any other similar node selector. This was actually “required” in previous versions of jQuery, but not enforced. </UPDATE> Kevin Carbonaro posted a neat little gadget example to the SPServices Discussions today, and I thought it was slick enough that it deserved a…
I got an interesting email today. I work with a company called Portal Front Hosting, a dedicated SharePoint hosting provider, and we have a new WordPress theme that is free to download and is inspired by SharePoint 2010. The link to a preview and download the theme can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/sharepointforwordpress. Since you discuss…
This weekend, I had the privilege of speaking at SharePoint Saturday Boston #3. Talbott Crowell, Pradeepa Siva, and Geoff Varosky put together another great event at the Microsoft offices in Waltham. Thanks to them and all of the sponsors! Photo tweeted by @ghurlman: http://yfrog.com/n8rt1zj My talk was about Enhancing the User Experience Using jQuery: In…
I was going to try to leave a comment in the teeny little box at the bottom of Mark’s post entitled I get by with a little help from jQuery and SPServices…, but I realized that I wouldn’t be able to post my code suggestions there so that they were readable, so I opted for…
I rarely remember this, and virtually no one else knows, either. If you’re editing the contents of a SharePoint list in Datasheet view, entering the wrong data can be disastrous. Never use Datasheet view unless you really know what you are doing, as the changes are destructive, meaning that there’s rarely a way to undo…
I got one of those “red alert”, “all hands on deck” emails this morning. Someone was trying to find all of the Document Libraries in a Site Collection with a certain name that had at least one item. They were trying to solve some specific client problem (I know not what!) and it was a…
C’mon, we’ve all done it. We get that invitation to connect on LinkedIn, and in a moment of weakness, we say “Sure!”. Then later we wonder who the heck Bert is, anyway. Or you realize that the guy you thought was wonderful and wouldn’t it be great to show everyone you knew actually turned out…
At one of my clients, there’s a debate going on about whether to control which development tools people use or not. In my mind, that’s a no-brainer; absolutely! I say "Never let the inmates run the asylum." What I mean by this is that if you ask N developers what tools you should use, you’ll…
In one of my client projects, we kept seeing this error, and basically ignored it for a long time. In our case, we saw the errors specifically on pages that included NewsGator Web Parts and we thought they might be the problem, but it was actually a problem with the SharePoint AJAX settings which NewsGator would…