http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2007/10/20/from-rails-to-sharepoint en-us 40 "Nothing in life is worth doing if you have no life while doing it" <p> 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). </p> <br /> <p> 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. </p> <br /> <p> <h3>So lets get started with my first SharePoint Tip:</h3> <br /> <strong>Development is a bitch! (sometimes)</strong> <br /><br /> 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. <br /><br /> <img src="/images/wrappedtextfield.png" border="0" /> Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:14:00 -0700 urn:uuid:fb717cfc-f675-45db-b028-f4745ec8a23a Bob Silva http://i.nfectio.us/articles/2007/10/20/from-rails-to-sharepoint SharePoint SharePoint