I got one of those “red alert”, “all hands on deck” emails this morning. Someone was trying to find all of the Document Libraries in a Site Collection with a certain name that had at least one item. They were trying to solve some specific client problem (I know not what!) and it was a…
Every once in a while, I write a fairly long response to a question in one of my USPJ Academy courses that just feels like a blog post. Here’s another one of those. We’ve been discussing why you would choose to use DOM manipulation over custom .NET programming. Here’s one of my replies in the…
This is a cool trick devised by one of my colleagues at my current client. (Confidentiality reigns supreme in client situations. Suffice it to say that this wasn’t my bright idea, but I give credit to the real thinker.) We were having trouble with caching of .js and .css files which we were deploying to the…
The other day I got a question about what I mean when I say that working with the Data View Web Part (DVWP) and jQuery can allow you to rapidly prototype solutions. In my experience, both the DVWP and jQuery allow you to rapidly iterate on a potential solution for a business use outside the normal…
You’ve gotta love Twitter. Yesterday, Greg Schaefer asked in the forums for my Enhancing the User Experience with jQuery course at USPJ Academy why jQuery is spelled the way it is. I had no idea, so off to the InterWebs. I didn’t see an obvious answer after a little Binging, so I figured I’d tweet…
Every once in a while, I’m sort of OK with blowing my own horn. One year into the life of my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services, now usually known as SPServices, I’m feeling pretty good about it. I first started writing the bits and pieces back in July, 2009 after reading a great blog…
I got this question in one of my courses over at the USPJ Academy, and I though the answer might be more widely useful. JavaScript files (and CSS files) can be minified for production use) – ref. your post on the JavaScript CompressorRator. I was wondering – by pure curiosity – if compressing xsl templates…
I’ve been going back and forth with my pals @jbhoward (Jim Bob Howard), @iOnline247(Matt Bramer), and @webdes03(Michael Greene) today about how best to dynamically load jQuery libraries. We were all interested in the possibility of determining on the fly whether to load the jQuery library itself conditionally from an external CDN (like the Google Ajax…
I frequently have people ask me whether they should store jQuery libraries in house or reference external Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) instead. I see plusses and minuses for using the various CDNs out there. (There are several big ones: Google, Microsoft, etc.) Reducing the ‘hits on the server’ thing is potentially one plus, but unless…
I just found out that my two sessions at SPTechCon in October right at home in Boston will be one right after the other on Thursday. Session 202 Data View Web Part Basics Thursday, October 21, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Session 306 Enhancing the User Experience With jQuery Thursday, October 21, 1:15 PM –…