Yesterday, I saw a tweet from Joel Ward which immediately got my attention: Joel and I went back and forth on Twitter for a while. The gist of the conversation was: What is the best game in town for tools and tricks for end users (Obvious answer: EndUserSharePoint.com) and would a repository of the…
I was looking through the incoming links here on my blog tonight, and I noticed this one: Middle Tier (un método alternativo para desarrollar en SharePoint). Well, that was interesting enough to click on, for sure! What it led me to was a Spanish post which is basically a brief paraphrasing of The Middle Tier…
My white paper, The Middle Tier Manifesto: An Alternative Approach to Development with Microsoft SharePoint (see my prior post) has been garnering a decent amount of attention over the last few days, as I hoped it would. I’m enjoying the discussions it is provoking, as the discussions were the whole point in the first place. I felt…
For some time now, I’ve felt the need to set down my thoughts on the power of development in the Middle Tier for SharePoint. Today, I’m publishing the first edition of my white paper The Middle Tier Manifesto: An Alternative Approach to Development with Microsoft SharePoint. I say ‘first edition’ because the days of spending…
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…
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. …
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,…
UPDATE 2009-08-26: I’ve translated this logic into my 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! UPDATE 2009-07-19: I’ve added a second post on this with a simpler example. It also contains a link to a demo page which…
I’ve been watching so many folks out there doing cool things with jQuery, and it’s time to bite the bullet and get up to speed. I wanted to take a look at something I’d recently posted about and see how I could do it with jQuery rather than pure JavaScript to see what the differences…
Many so-called Web 2.0 sites show a little icon for any links which send you out of their purview to another site. This is a nice thing to do within SharePoint as well. You can easily make this happen without users needing to take any action by adding some JavaScript into your master page. I…