SharePoint Shop Talk Recap (09/24/09 edition) | Paul Galvin's SharePoint Space

We finished our 8th SharePoint Shop Talk open Q&A session yesterday. During that session, we covered the following topics:

How to send out a highly formatted email from a workflow created using SharePoint Designer.
- Check out this link for a treasure trove of great SPD info and email: http://tinyurl.com/cssworkflow
Where to find information on the differences between SharePoint 2010 and especially Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (the free version of SharePoint).
We discussed jQuery maintenance and management. More specifically, “where should the jQuery go?” We had a great discussion around this topic and one interesting new ideas (to me) is the idea of a content delivery network. This bing search pulls up a lot of interesting data on the subject: http://www.bing.com/search?q=microsoft+content+delivery+network&FORM=DLSDF7&pc=MDDS&src=IE-SearchBox
- Special mention to Jan Tielens’ CodePlex project on installing jQuery to an internal network as a feature that can be managed like any other feature in a SharePoint environment. Look it up and consider using it if you’re leveraging a lot of jQuery in your environment: http://www.codeplex.com/smarttools
- While you’re at, check out Marc Anderson’s jQuery work as well: http://mdasblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/jquery-library-for-sharepoint-web-services-v0-2-10-released/. He’s very responsive to comments from the community.
Someone mentioned that parts (or maybe even all) of the up-coming mega conference in Las Vegas in October will be broadcast over the internets. Check out this site for more information: http://www.week3.org/Events/default.aspx
We talked about RSS. That discussion covered a lot of ground. There’s a CodePlex project that does better RSS than what you get out of the box and www.endusersharepoint.com has some good articles up by Laura Rogers on how to use DVWP to build really good RSS sessions.