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…