There’s an interesting article in today’s Sunday Boston Globe entitled Please do not change your password The basic premise is that the security folks are wasting their time and ours in trying to get us to use strong passwords which we change frequently. The harder they try to make us do it, the less likely…
Christophe Humbert, of Path to SharePoint fame, pinged me yesterday and asked me if I had an autocomplete function in my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services. Unfortunately, “no” was the answer, so I decided to build one. Et voila! There are lots of functions like this one out there available on the Web. I…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Whoa, Bessie! I forgot about one of the most useful XSL tags for Data View Web Parts (DVWPs)! <xsl:import> allows you to be highly modular in storing your XSL templates for reuse. I mentioned this back in Part 13 briefly, but I should go into it in some more detail. This post…
In my post What About Anonymous Writes to SharePoint Lists with Web Services? the other day, I wondered why the SharePoint Web Services don’t allow anonymous updates to SharePoint lists through the Web Services, even when anonymous write access is enabled on those lists. Since then, I’ve gotten two independent answers that tell me that it just…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… In the last article, I covered some of the XPath Math / Number functions; in this one, I’ll cover the rest. The first set included the ones that I considered somewhat tricky, and the ones in this article ought to be more straightforward. One thing that I forgot to mention in the…
Here’s the nut of the question. SharePoint’s Web Services fall into two main classes: those that read (generally Get* methods) and those that write. Others don’t really make sense unless you are authorized, like the Users and Groups Web Service. In situations where you are allowing Anonymous Access, it makes perfect sense to be able…
In a post about a week and a half ago entitled Judging a Company in the Age of Social Media, I talked about a product called LastPass that I had been trying out. I had been having problems with it, and I tweeted about it. Not a minute had gone by (literally) when I got a…
If you are visiting for the first time in a while, yes, you are in the right place. WordPress came out with the new Neutra theme yesterday, and I decided that it was time for a facelift. I tried changing the theme once before, and ended up backing off on the change. This time, I think I’ll…
I’ve seen several people over the last few weeks tweet about getting the wrong version of Windows 7 on a new laptop. They then say that they will be formatting and reinstalling Windows. Don’t do it! With Anytime Upgrade, you can just enter the appropriate key for the version you have licensed and you’ll be…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… I’m going to go back to the XPath Math / Number functions for this article to cover a few of them. Most of these functions are fairly intuitive, but I’m a math guy. (Yup, I even majored in it in college back during the Renaissance.) However, I find that the “documentation” in…