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> i work in a pretty convoluted SharePoint environment For some reason I intuited that you were not going to talk about how well the organization has dealt wit
by hawkice 12y ago
> i work in a pretty convoluted SharePoint environment
For some reason I intuited that you were not going to talk about how well the organization has dealt with said complexity. I'm curious if there is any way to FFI into sharepoint and start using tools that don't actively sabotage their users.
- bdamm 12y agoI'd like to know if anyone has anything nice to say about Sharepoint. As a user I find it miserable in all browsers, and have obviously avoided doing anything with it as a developer.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> I'd like to know if anyone has anything nice to say about Sharepoint. Its marginally less of a total failure for issue tracking than Excel. I'm not sure that that counts as something nice.
- hawkice 12y agoIt's better than staring into the computer as if it were a dark abyss, screaming and longing for a way to build something. It's easy to discount how useful this is for people who really have no tools or means otherwise (not that more specialized services like, without loss of generality, Wufoo, aren't way better). The general discontent has to do (mostly) with 'Sharepoint Engineers', which is a bit like having someone build a house with legos.
- xorcist 12y agoI guess a regular wiki is too much to ask for... (For the omg-cryptic-markup crowd there is always Google Docs. I seriously wonder why that hasn't crushed all trivial Sharepoint instances yet.)
- pp19dd 12y agoEdward Snowden's last job was a Sharepoint administrator, IRC.
- killertypo 12y agoSo our answer has to just been to hire more developers, more and more and more developers. As the complexity grows, so does headcount. This is why I thank the stars that I am the opensource developer, focusing on linux / Python / Django development. I cross over into SharePoint only when we begrudgingly use it as a CMS for a windows 8 app or similar. There is an effort now to write an external service bus to manage a lot of the business logic complexity that we've baked into SharePoint. With the eventual goal of having SharePoint and other resources leverage this SB and use it instead.