There’s a great article in the Boston Sunday Globe today entitled The Leased Life. It talks about what is termed the “product service system”. The basic idea is that many of the things we buy we don’t buy because we want the thing itself, but what the thing can do for us. We buy tomatoes…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:template> Think of a template as a subroutine. It’s a unit of XSL to which you pass control. A template in a Data View Web Part’s (DVWP’s) XSL is a really important “unit of measure”. When you first drop a DVWP on the page and configure it, SharePoint Designer will automagically create…
I’ve been meaning to revisit my post from November 1 last year entitled jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services: Interim Update on What’s Coming Up in v0.5.0. I wanted to see how I was doing, if I’d forgotten about anything, etc. Reading through the post, I’m happy to say that I’m still having the fun…
I’m going to capture the things I find that are problems as I upgrade my jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services from jQuery 1.3.2 to the just released jQuery 1.4. In theory everything ought to work as is, but we all know that life doesn’t always work that way. As I find things, I’ll add them to this…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) are, to me, the most powerful feature in SharePoint. You’ve probably heard them called the Swiss Army Knife of SharePoint and there’s really very little that you can’t display with them if you understand how they work. But understanding the inner working of DVWPs requires knowledge of…