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…
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,…
When I’m working on a project, we almost always use a SharePoint Task List to manage our outstanding tasks. I’ve seen many people try to overcomplicate this process with complex workflows, roles, and permissions, but to me some simple tweaks and conventions to the basic Task List get you much further along and make life…
And I don’t think so, either. I love sitting down with the Boston Globe and finding out what’s going on in the world and locally. (I am totally at odds with the editorial slant of the Globe, but that’s part of what I enjoy!) Even better if I can read the Globe lying in the…
This is already all over the blogosphere, but I thought I’d RB (re-blog, like RT, right?) it. The official public information about SharePoint 2010 is starting to trickle out over at the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 site. The videos are worth a watch!