I have come to a conditional conclusion. Either:
A) Every time I need to do something at work, I am the ONLY. PERSON. EVER. that has wanted to do such a thing.
-OR-
B) No one on the internets wants to write about the stuff I need to do at work.
"A" comes from the fact that when I need to do something at work and I start searching online for someone else's method of doing that same thing, I rarely ever find anything relevant, let alone, exactly it. And I'm no Google slouch. This isn't "tap, tap. Welp, didn't find it!" This is hours of research.
"B" comes from the fact that when I run into these issues, and I do finally figure out how to solve the problem, I've tried writing about it in my blog in the hopes that I'll save some other poor soul the pain and frustration I experienced, but it's hard to write about technical programmy type stuff. I usually give up.
Sure, I'm a creative type. I come up with unique solutions to problems. But the problems I'm usually trying to solve aren't that unusual. No one has tried to use a "People Picker" on a SharePoint workflow initiation form? Really? No one?! And if they haven't, why the heck not? People Pickers are awesome. Who wouldn't want that kind of coolness on their initiation form? (Only slightly mocking, they're actually very handy controls.)
I'm just finishing up some SharePoint hackery, and once I'm done, I hope to write about my problem, solution, and method so that someone else can benefit from my two weeks of pain.
In the meantime, yes, SharePoint: ARGH!
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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2 comments:
"it's hard to write about technical programmy type stuff."
Yay for employment!
1. "Programmy" rules.
2. Oh gods no, don't ruin this blog with ShairPoinz.
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