Brooks is one of my revered writers on the subject of software engineering. The basic lessons in The Mythical Man Month are so obvious and fundamental yet often obscured or forgotten in many of the projects that I’ve worked on....
This has probably been done to death, but here’s my version of how to “HTML-ify” HTML text in SharePoint calculated fields into rendered HTML using jQuery:
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Console,monospace;"><span style="color: #4d70ea;">var </span><span style="color: #e87400;">htmlPattern = /[^<]*<([^ ]+)[^<]+<\/\1>.*/;</span> <span style="color: #4d70ea;">var </span><span style="color: #e87400;">ltPattern = /&lt;/g;</span> <span style="color: #4d70ea;">var </span><span style="color: #e87400;">gtPattern = /&gt;/g;</span></span> <span style="font-family: Lucida Console,monospace;"><span style="color: #e87400;">$(selectors).each(</span><span style="color: #4d70ea;">function</span><span style="color: #e87400;">(index, item){</span> <span style="color: #4d70ea;">var </span><span style="color: #e87400;">html = $(item).html().replace(ltPattern, </span><span style="color: #a56dbc;">"<"</span><span style="color: #e87400;">).replace(gtPattern, </span><span style="color: #a56dbc;">">"</span><span style="color: #e87400;">);</span></span> <span style="font-family: Lucida Console,monospace;"> <span style="color: #4d70ea;">if</span><span style="color: #e87400;">(!htmlPattern.test(html)) { </span><span style="color: #4d70ea;">return</span><span style="color: #e87400;">; }</span></span> <span style="font-family: Lucida Console,monospace;"> <span style="color: #e87400;">$(item).html(html);</span> <span style="color: #e87400;">});</span></span> |
Perhaps the most interesting part of this script is the regular expression used...
For some time, I’ve had hosting with WebFaction for some personal python+django projects I was (well, am still…) working on while my main blog was hosted with ServerIntellect (a great hosting company, by the way). While WebFaction breaks one of...
From one of my favorite software engineering books, Eric Brechner’s I.M. Wright’s Hard Code: None of us is as dumb as all of us An especially evil form of interruption is the meeting. A meeting forces you to stop productive...
Professionally, almost nothing aggravates me more than the Math of Mediocrity. The only thing worse than observing failure based on the Math of Mediocrity is having to actively participate in it. Steve Jobs’ Parable of the Concept Car is a...