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…
Anyone who follows my blog or knows me professionally knows that I love working with the Data View Web Part (DVWP) in SharePoint. It’s the Swiss Army knife of Web Parts, it’s a dessert topping, it’s a floor wax. Yes, it even can help you graph your data. I’ve posted before about this technique for…
I added a new demo page to the Sympraxis Consulting site yesterday. It’s such a simple thing that it’s almost not worth mentioning. However, when you can do something today that means you don’t have to do work tomorrow, why not make the effort? I’ve posted on this idea before, but just to reiterate, the demo…
I usually test my formulas in Excel. The syntax is the same; if it works in Excel, it’s going to work in SharePoint. (There may be exceptions to this, but I haven’t run into them.) Simply set up some cells with the values you need and then work out your formula. Once you’ve got it…
I’ve been using the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar for years with Internet Explorer 7 and below. When Internet Explorer 8 came out, it had these tools baked right in and called the Developer Tools. (You can activate the Developer tools by hitting F12 in IE8.) But what if you need to peek into the DOM…
Yup. Decided to switch themes. Sort of like trying on a new summer wardrobe. I thought that this theme might be a little easier on the eyes and also give a bit more room for code. Let me know what you think! UPDATE 2009-07-26 — Turns out the new wardrobe just didn’t feel right, so I’m…
As long as I’ve been working with Data View Web Parts (DVWPs), I’ve pretty much always done my “joins” manually by diving into the XSL. When I started working with DVWPs, there wasn’t much available to tell me how to do things, so I just made it up based on what worked. Today I saw…