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 got a ping yesterday from someone who had come across one of my old posts about Displaying the First N Words of a Long Rich Text Column with XSL. While the bits and pieces are there in the post, without a decent knowledge of XSL, it wasn’t obvious to them how you’d actually using the XSL templates. …
Back in May, I posted about a couple of articles on “SharePoint: The Reality Series” that Marc Solomon had written which included some quotes from a discussion I had with him back in January. Marc was kind enough to ping me today about a new installment in the series. This installment is entitled SharePoint The…
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 –…
Tonight I’m releasing SPServices v0.5.6. The changes in this release aren’t major, but they are still important. Jaap Vossers (that’s a link to Jaap’s SharePointOverflow profile because his blog seems to have gone missing as I write this) spotted a bug in the core SPServices function that I hadn’t ever caught. If he supplied a…