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 –…