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I'm not proud of it, but I worked on SharePoint at CERN IT. Some examples of how dysfunctional it was: - When asking about version control I was told that if I
by l0b0 7y ago
I'm not proud of it, but I worked on SharePoint at CERN IT. Some examples of how dysfunctional it was:
- When asking about version control I was told that if I really wanted to use it I could have Visual SourceSafe 6.0 or something from way back in the nineties. It was basically CVS 0.1 alpha with a GUI, and I ended up learning Git instead.
- I made sure all my changes worked on Firefox, because that's what I knew the physicists were using. My boss wanted me to support IE only, and after a heated discussion the quote which always haunted me was "We don't care about the physicists!"
- A colleague lamented about having spent about a year developing some uber-flexible interface in SharePoint which would've been an order of magnitude simpler in other content management systems.
The rest of CERN is completely different, as indicated by cernguy.
I left a year into a two-year contract, and I'm happy to say I've not worked on a Microsoft platform ever since!
- cernguy 7y ago> The rest of CERN is completely different, as indicated by cernguy Yes, that is also a thing at CERN. Many other teams re-develop things internally (Linux based) because they could not trust or rely on IT management to do the right things. That had a very perveted effect of internal duplication across teams and experiments.
- wilsonpie 7y agoWell, now they are conCERNed