Not only is it ugly, it also costs upwards $500+ for a corporate license which doesn’t even include real AJAX capabilities. Thats not my true grip though - I’m forced to use SharePoint as the presentation layer for my application at work. I want to display a simple RSS feed via a web-part, only to find out the feeds don’t update for HOURS. Agile business out of the box my ass. News feeds are meant to keep you up to date, what is Microsoft thinking? Disabling caching, and setting timeout intervals don’t do any good because SharePoint STILL manages to cache old data - this is useless. If you want a real content/information management system look at some open source alternatives like Drupal or Joomla. Not only will you get your money’s worth (FREE) you’ll also get your sanity back. In the meantime, I’ll be whipping out some custom web-parts a-la ASP.NET since corporate America is locked into the Microsoft Office ecosystem.
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Oh man, don’t even get me started. When I was still working at Intel, they wanted me to make a team webpage. I got right on that, because I like webdev stuff. So I made a sweet-looking page. I was all happy about it until they said I had to convert it to Sharepoint. I took a look at Sharepoint and I threw up in my mouth a little. It’s the worst piece of crap there is. Like you said, it doesn’t even do ajax right. It quite simply, sucks. There are way better alternatives. But like you said, too bad corporate america is stuck on that.
Aside from the “it’s a pain to work with factor”, it doesn’t even live up to it’s intended purpose, imo… social productvitity. Check out my post on that here:
http://www.jimgoings.com/2008/03/sharepoint-not-the-social-answer/
Who are these developers at Microsoft? looking at their products; crap like sharepoint they don’t even seem half intelligent. They are the crappiest coders I can imagine.
I get paid doing this sharepoint crap and what a waste of corporate time and money, I personally don’t care, f*ck my company and their like, but if it were my corporation I would be upset to see my developers building sharepoint based CMS. WTF, this thing is really useless crap.
Just look at the time it gets to install the server, what a fuck, I sometimes think Microsoft adds crap to their application because with their crap comes new technological terms, which developers have to learn in order to find work in this circle of corporations supporting eachothers ass.
Did you manage to make RSS-feed update itself? I got that issue atm :/
I have been pushing SharePoint until this point. In wss2 Microsoft did nothing short of encourage the customization of SharePoint, when v3 came out, what was their solution to migrate custom site definitions….they had none. Every bit of crap i read and try ends up in the same output. A site with semi 3.0 technology that looks like someone threw up on the page. I have been through 3 different engineers (re-ghosting, mapping, everything), i dont even know how much they have charged us for support and the same damn thing in the end….crap. As far as they are concerned if a document library has 3.0 technology then their agreement to migrate has been completed. I can’t hand this sh*t off to my customers. Thanks Microsoft, you have once again sh*t on one of your supporters. F you and your sh*tty engineers
We can write one? Then kill MS with Innovation and Productivity
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