We released our jQuery library for SharePoint Web Services to Codeplex today. You can find it at http://spservices.codeplex.com; the current release is 0.2.3. We’ll keep the existing demo page up and running on the Sympraxis Consulting demo site and try to keep it current with each new release. The demo page basically mirrors our test…
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…
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…
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…
After the back and forth with Mike Oryszak about the last demo I built, my partner Pete and I decided that it would be really useful (and a fun exercise) to start building out a jQuery Library for the SharePoint Web Services. While many, many people have blogged about their point solutions for this (not…
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,…
Last week, I spotted a really nice blog post from Mike Oryszak which showed how to update an item without a form by using jQuery to post changes using the SharePoint Lists Web Service. It got me thinking about a lot of things that you might do to make SharePoint feel more “Web 2.0”. By…
There’s a great article by Nicholson Baker in the August 3rd issue of The New Yorker about his experience trying to like the Kindle entitled A New Page: Can the Kindle really improve on the book? It’s a well thought out, interesting read. One of the things that made it especially interesting to me is…
Those of us who use Windows computers are well used to the nearly constant security updates required to keep our software and hardware safe. Our Apple friends are less used to it; the smaller install base (and perception of a more magnanimous corporate attitude) keeps the hackers focused on other things. However, today Apple made…
…is other technologists. My good friend Scott Feier sent me a link to this comic at Smashing Magazine today, which ostensibly explains the future of XHTML. Do you ever want to find the bright bulbs on these standards committees and give them what-for? It’s no wonder my Mom will never really understand computers and people…