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

[Charles Shapiro]

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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> >
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