From Rails to SharePoint
If anyone still has my blog in their RSS readers, they haven't seen anything for quite a long time now. So what gives? My initial foray into Ruby and Rails was a great ride but now I've moved on to something else which is occupying my time much more than RoR ever did. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Yea, yea, I know what most of you are thinking but SharePoint is truly an awesome product, especially for the environment that I work in. I've spent the last 10 years writing apps similar to SharePoint to support our business processes. Each one got a little closer to what SharePoint is, but all fell way short (obviously, I'm only one guy).
I'm not dropping Ruby/Rails though, I developed a few in house apps with it that I will continue to support, and I am even looking at a Ruby library to support SharePoints extensive Web Service architecture. The main point of this post (since I doubt anyone really cares what I do with my time) is that this blog will provide a mixture of RoR and SharePoint content.
So lets get started with my first SharePoint Tip:
Development is a bitch! (sometimes)
Thats it for now, stay tuned as I prepare a write-up on a CFT that wraps text around a text field in New/Edit pages.
