[ale] Documents and VCS (was Re: Anyone looking for a new gig?)

[Jeff Lightner]

Sharepoint actually has version control built into.  You can check out,
save and check in things like Word documents and Excel spreadsheets.

 

Alas that feature like much of Sharepoint only works in IE.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Charles Shapiro
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 10:33 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Documents and VCS (was Re: Anyone looking for a new
gig?)

 

Heh. I've been updating documentation this week. I do all my work on the
local wiki.  My boss has promised me he'll put it on sharepoint when I'm
finished.

Best of both worlds, I reckon.

-- CHS



On 10/5/08, George L. Allen <glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I don't know, I pretty much agree with you for the most part, then
> again, I've pretty much treated documents as simply another piece of
> source code and managed it much the same way.


Exactly!

That's why LaTeX, vi, sed/awk, etc. are such beautiful things...

I just wish the masses could be taught the same, not the tools, but at
least the mindset. Want more from your candidates for office (software).

I think wikis are great, and the Army (where I work) has a few different
projects in that vein (changing mindsets is an understatement), but...
it
just doesn't work out.

I got into a discussion about several systems (including sharepoint)
compared to wikis - arguing that the limitation in content types (only
articles and supporting graphics, content contained by the page) was a
strength of wikis as opposed to a weakness - because it forced users to
worry about the darn content, and not to get caught up in the nuances of
'Document Workspaces' and hierarchies upon hierarchies of lost cruft.

Plus with all content in a indexed searchable namespace rather than
buried
in the cruft, the management of the pages themselves, as opposed to the
content within the pages, looks logarithmic instead of linear (at best).

I dunno - maybe we just get the tools we ask for, hence the *nix
CNC-mill
with welding and smelting options for those who seek it, and one hammer
fits all for everyone else.


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