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What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | johndoe77: If you've ever used MediaWiki or TWiki and have been asked to switch to SharePoint you'll want to hurt someone/thing. |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | netsp: There are a lot of comments on this thread by now and I don't think that anyone who doesn't already know the answer to this question can read this page and get it. Words like collaboration and sharing don't seem to be adding up to anything. There are a lot of very different things that could be described in this... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | nullrend: After reading through all of the comments left here about what it does, how it does it and the pros/cons of it, I was left wondering what would be a capable alternative to it. Sure, I can implement a chat system, a wiki and a blogging plaform separately, but each platform will stand apart from the others. Hav... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | Lendal: In a word, it is a CMS. But being from Microsoft, you know it has to be excessively complicated. So take Drupal, but build it with IIS, ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL Server, XSLT and Search. Make sure you throw in plugins that make it manage Microsoft Office documents very well, with hooks into things like Outlook, an... |
Things to know before Startup School | larrykubin: As far as cheap places to stay, I stayed at this hostel for a little over a week last year:http://www.sanfranciscohostel.org/Only cost around 200 bucks for 10 nights. Met a lot of cool folks from out of the country and had a blast. Went to Startup School one weekend, and went to the free portion of the Web ... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | nl: It is usually sold as a way to make Office collaborative. It also has a set of badly implemented other features which allow it to check boxes on product comparison feature lists.It also sucks.It sucks like Microsoft products used to suck, back when Microsoft was evil, not just irrelevant.Did you ever use Windows 3.... |
Things to know before Startup School | fizx: "Ici" (at College and Ashby) is the best ice cream I've ever had. |
Things to know before Startup School | aristus: I host an Open Hacker House in San Francisco each Friday, 3-7pm at Epicenter Cafe, 764 Harrison. Come on by -- there's usually a few HNers and YC applicants, if not YC-funded folk. |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | renkeyes: Based on the implementation at my workplace, SP seems to have value as a hybrid intranet site and file share. Each department has their own section in which non-IT folks can create simple HTML content and can attach documents. It is also relatively simple to share this content with other groups as needed, bas... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | nintendo1889: I don't really know what sharepoint is, so my viewpoint is that of an outsider, but what I can gather from what I've read about it, it seems to be the inspiration (or one of the inspirations) for Google Wave. Also pretty much any job listing in I.T. seems to mention it.It's like describing .NET before it ... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | taitems: We're running Intranet DASHBOARD. It's an incredibly cost effective Australian-made product. When you're quoted upwards of $1 mil for Sharepoint licenses you'll understand. |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | jasonlbaptiste: I didn't expect this thread to grow to 56 comments. Here's what astounds me: Sharepoint is Microsoft's fasting growing business ever. Faster than windows or office. It's also a source of 1 bil+ revenue a year. YET, comments from 40+ educated people who know technology very well cannot explain its pur... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | reedlaw: We use Sharepoint in our university as a place for teachers to store documents for students to download. It also serves as a portal for accessing lots of information for different departments in the school. I work in a Chinese university and Sharepoint is one of the few MS products the school actually pays for... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | chanux: Box.net was calling a war with it.http://sites.box.net/simple |
Things to know before Startup School | magus_pwnsen: If you take a cab from SFO to Palo Alto, get a quoted price before getting in. Cab rates are bad as it is, but there's also a +50% penalty if you go outside of SF. It's ridiculous. |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | javery: Ironically the first time I was forced to use Sharepoint was when I was writing a book for O'Reilly. They used it as a rudimentary source control system for documents.The best definition is that it's "an intranet in a box" |
Your biggest non-technical hack/discovery | xenoterracide: College / Certification Hack. I took A+, Network+, and Linux+ and got transfer credits for 3 linux classes, 1 networking and 1 hardware class, spending only a few hundred dollars and saving several thousand, shaving time off my time to graduate and having several certs to show for it. |
Things to know before Startup School | dwynings: Palo Alto Hacker House is having a BBQ Friday night... feel free to stop by!http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=185108368975&ref=m... |
Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine? | melvinram: The real answer to this question depends on your needs. The more complex your website is, the more requirements you'll have. I don't have experience with Joomla or ExpressionEngine so I won't comment on them.If your website is simple, Wordpress is probably the route to go. In fact, it's the most popular CMS ... |
Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine? | yannis: Wordpress - for a simple blogJoomla - for a run-of-the-mill CMSDrupal - for a more complex CMSExpression Engine - for extensive PHP hacking
it is based on CodeIgniter and
designed using MVCIt really depends on what you want to do with it. |
Things to know before Startup School | lulzcat: If you take a cab, get a price quoted for you beforehand, because drivers tend to omit the nasty +50% surcharge for taking you out of SF. |
How do you convince someone that you are the creator of an app? | nostrademons: If they're skeptical (and you haven't given them reason to be skeptical), you probably don't want to work for them anyway. There needs to be an atmosphere of trust-by-default; if you don't have that at the interview stage, what's the job going to be like? |
How do you convince someone that you are the creator of an app? | melvinram: During the interview, simply talk about the real challenges you had with making it, the decisions you made as you went along and why you built it in the first place. These could probably be faked but I'm sure most people would be able to pick out a fake and they'll probably be able to tell that you're credib... |
Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine? | shortformblog: I'm not super-experienced with the others, but you can do a lot in WordPress if you know how to hack it. And uptake is so high that even if you don't, there's probably a plugin that can get you there.But I would say it depends on your needs, either way. |
Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine? | officemedium: Drupal, especially if you have any development experiences or real customization needs. It can be modeled to do anything - yes, I mean anything at all. I've developed some amazing applications using Drupal - not just the typical 'blog' like site that the others generally create. So it depends on your need... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | dhughes: the file exists! |
Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine? | byoung2: That's a difficult question to answer without knowing what content you're going to put on the site.For a simple 5 page site + blog with frequent updates, I'd say Wordpress. There are lots of plugins and templates are very easy. It's the only blogging software I'd recommend for a basic blog.For a site with a ... |
Does anyone know when winter's (march 2010) demo day will be? | pg: We haven't decided for sure. It's usually a thurs and fri
about 60% of the way through March. We may expand to 3 days this winter, because it was getting a bit crowded. |
Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine? | foulmouthboy: I can play too!SiteCore, TeamSite, TypePad, Blogspot? |
Things to know before Startup School | derwiki: If you're in town for longer and don't know what to do, try to check out the Computer History museum in Mountain View or the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Both are worth every penny! |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | foogaamoo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12Jb5Z2xaE |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | egodeath: the "enterprise wiki" is horrible, so that one's a mystery to me |
Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine? | ryanwaggoner: Never, ever use Joomla. It is a steaming pile of shit, and no good can come of touching it.The rest are decent, depending on your exact needs. I find Drupal a bit heavy for non-techies unless you spend some time removing stuff from the admin side that they don't need. I try to use Wordpress over Drupal wh... |
Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine? | nick-dap: I had a terrible experience trying to extend Joomla. The code is a freaking mess. I would not consider Joomla to be a viable solution for anything.Lately, I've been using Drupal and it is monumentally better. The API (really the hook system) is small and flexible. There is a module for almost anything you can... |
Best graduate schools out west. | jacobb: UC Berkeley, Stanford, Caltech. |
Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine? | pavs: Wordpress. I don't know of anything you can't do with wordpress that you can do with other mentioned CMS here. Wordpress is extremely flexible with the largest user base and community support (among the CMS mentioned here). Depending on your speed of learning you can take it apart and put it back in a matter of d... |
Does HN need a dupe link detector? A better one? | jacquesm: yes please: http://[www.]somedomain[:80]/somepath[/][index.html][#someanchor]Otoh the ever shorter 'history' of links that you can see through the 'more' links makes it very easy to miss stuff.On the new page it is 13 hours long, on the 'main' page it is only about a day. |
Does HN need a dupe link detector? A better one? | makecheck: Yes, I think a better one is needed. HN only seems to detect duplicates when a new submission has a URL that is identical to a previous submission.The idea of pattern-matching URLs could help, but a lot of times the problems are due to links through blogs, etc. that have completely different URLs. So in ad... |
How to find the right developer for the job? | dryicerx: Doing it Javascript, I am not sure if that's even possible. Java applets are... lets face it, not cool.Since you already know php, doing it server-side using ImageMagick would definitely be a possibility. |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | solutionyogi: What's up with all the MS hate? This thread reads like a Slashdot thread and not an HN thread. Pardon me, I feel that the OP is not sincere. He already has a preconceived notion (OP quote, 'it seems to be pretty crappy and hard to explain') about the product and wants to reinforce it.Sharepoint is first ... |
Does HN need a dupe link detector? A better one? | japherwocky: I tackled this for a YC-funded company in the recent past, and it's fundamentally trickier than you might think.If filtering out duplicate urls isn't good enough, matching copied content is the next easiest way to solve this, but it requires analyzing/storing/indexing relatively massive amounts of data. A... |
Does HN need a dupe link detector? A better one? | ars: HN doesn't need a dup detector - it has that, humans.It needs a better policy/idea of what to do about dups.My suggestion:Merge the comments, have a mod pick a title and url for the main view. Show the other/alternate titles and urls on the comments view.The mod ranking is whichever is higher, and any future mods ... |
Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine? | lux: http://www.sitellite.org/ ?(self-promotion, but hey, it's open source! :) |
Does HN need a dupe link detector? A better one? | akamaka: No, it doesn't, in my opinion.I almost never see dupe links here, and I don't think it's a problem at all. |
Does HN need a dupe link detector? A better one? | ghotli: I'd say if the dupe hasn't been submitted in a long while then it should be accepted. A link should be added to the story pointing to the old discussion thread for that link.This way if the community finds an old topic/link interesting again for some reason there can be a lively discussion with participants tha... |
Does HN need a dupe link detector? A better one? | manish: May be a flag duplicate will help. Its easier for us to tell some duplicate post which comes as blog, different url, different site etc, compared to filters. |
How do you convince someone that you are the creator of an app? | raquo: Tell them the app's most obscure bugs |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | TwoSheds: MindTouch (http://www.mindtouch.com/) competes directly with SharePoint and the base system is open source. Aaron R. Fulkerson from the company creating it was interviewed in FLOSS weekly recently (http://twit.tv/floss89) Sounded pretty cool, and certainly worth a look if you have any doubts about introducing... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | snagage: Sharepoint does a reasonable job at being a MS-centric document management system, providing team collaboration spaces and being a traditional intranet.But for everything else that it claims to be is just a huge tease.- It can be a CMS, but it's the worst, most inflexible, non-standard compliant one you can im... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | dankjaergaard: I've been an SP user and was also involved in a few projects.From a users perspective I see SP as no more than the "My Documents" folder moved to a browser. Sure, documents are now accessible to others, but SP does not solve the problem of explaining what the status of the document is. So you find someon... |
Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, or ExpressionEngine? | gexla: I agree with what most people have said here.Joomla has been horrible for me. I get mad every time I touch it. That has kept me from overcoming the learning curve to get it working.Drupal seems to be a nicer hacker platform, but the interface has been a huge problem for making it a decent solution for clients.... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | mstevens: From the user side, two things that particularly annoyed me were:* The search was unusuably bad. One of the worst searches I've ever used.* The document versioning may, if you're a programmer, lead you to believe it works like source control. Then you delete a document and find there's no way to retrieve it s... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | bensummers: The signup process is rather effective -- gets you to running your first test nice and quickly. |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | jmtame: what a bittersweet solution ;) "oh cool! look at all these bugs--hey wait..." |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | pplante: I love the service. Its a great idea, and the scriptability of it makes integration into an existing pipeline extremely easy.All praise aside I cannot say I personally would use it much beyond experimenting with it. My project uses google maps too extensively and ends up failing out too much. Thats more my ... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | agmiklas: A pay-as-you-go pricing option might be useful. The monthly pricing model works well if you plan to run the tests every day/week, but I'm guessing that a lot of people will want to run the cross-browser tests on every new deployment, but perhaps not between deploys. |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | adamt: I like it.Sign-up nice and concept good.Couple of comments/bugs:
1) When you first record something and click 'run' it brings up a confusing dialog box with a textbox. I figured out eventually this is a save dialog box, but it isn't obvious2) Appreciate the need to queue things up, but I didn't find the queue st... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | hwijaya: Clickable link: http://go-test.it/hackernews |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | avk: How does this differ from Selenium or what the guys at Sauce Labs are doing? |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | gommm: Very good idea, I could see myself using this... |
How do you convince someone that you are the creator of an app? | fookyong: is this something you own or something you built for a client?I'm just wondering why you can't upload a secret "bio" page on the app somewhere that only you know the url to... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | etherealG: really awesome service. very very impressive. price point seems a bit high for another small company to be using, but corporates would jump all over it. hope it takes off, well done. |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | spokey: Nice. And that's coming from someone who has been thinking about an app like this for quite some time.One minor thing: On the "Welcome to Go Test It!" page (/welcome), you have "I have existing Selenium scripts that I want to upload." and "I do not yet have any test scripts." I bristled at that slightly. I _d... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | prabodh: Does Go TestIt solves any problems which selenium doesnot solve...? |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | swombat: Can you make it work with Flex apps? If so, you've got a client. If not, I'll have to pass, unfortunately. |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | charlesmarshall: Now that is a really useful application! well done guys, if the price is right (bit high at the moment for the individual / small business) |
How do you convince someone that you are the creator of an app? | cd34: Years ago I interviewed an employee that wrote "Expert MySQL and PHP Coder" on his resume. He submitted code that was very well written, commented, no unit tests, but, the code was relatively clean. He showed me his web site where it was running and had substantial evidence in his favor that he was the author.D... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | jeroen: Looks nice and useful, but scheduling is a bit unclear to me:I have 1 testscript, 7 browsers, which makes 7 tests. If I schedule to run every "day", will those 7 tests run every day, or 1 a day? I expect the first, but "Our scheduler will try to start one of the tests above with the start times separated by the... |
if not SQL then what? | yummyfajitas: Anyone who is meeting up against SQL is a moron. SQL is a great solution 90% of the time and only a fool says otherwise. You should use SQL until you have a good reason not to.10% of the time it doesn't work. It will fail due either to performance (compare memcached to any SQL server) or expressiveness (e... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | oneplusone: This seems really really expensive.Say it takes me 10 actions to fully test one feature and all its cases. Spread that across FireFox 3 + 3.5, Safari, and IE 6 + 7 + 8, that would take a total of 60 actions for one feature. With a web app that has 20 features testing it once a week I would have to pay $326.... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | seajosh: I did something similar a couple of years ago called Blue Violin. It was a web app that recorded web events, saved them, then ran the test script. The source code is available at http://code.google.com/p/blueviolin/ - you might find some code of use to you. If you have any questions, you can find me at @JoshWa... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | BlueSkies: I like the concept and the sign-up was easy.I noted that you can't run a test until you first save it, even though there is a Run button. You may wish to make this piece a little smoother.I got a little confused by the queueing though. Was I supposed to wait when it said queueing? I did, but nothing happe... |
What source code is worth studying? | frosty: i will say unless you plan to make small changes, you wont get much out of studying the source code. fixing small bugs in an open source project will expose you to lot of portions of source code and also give you some rep in case you want to become a contributor later |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | elroySF: As someone who's overseeing a rather huge implementation of SharePoint 2007 - and as a former user of Confluence - I have to say that SharePoint does pretty much what Confluence does (wiki, document sharing and versioning, calendaring) except that SharePoint has far more overhead. SP setup and deployment is hi... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | aik: Very cool. As other people have have said, a pay as you go payment plan would be pretty cool. I'd use it. |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | ynniv: How does this compare to BrowserCam? [ http://browsercam.com ](disclosure: I work next to the BrowserCam team) |
Review our startup - EventGel | kirubakaran: Paul (icey) and I have been working on a tool that helps people coordinate plans while attending an event. We've put together a sample "Startup School" event for you to play with.We're still early in the process of starting up, so any and all feedback will be really helpful to us.The idea for this came out... |
What The Hell Does Sharepoint Do? | awa: Sharepoint in clear english: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12Jb5Z2xaE |
Review our startup - EventGel | icey: I should mention that since this is in an early stage that you guys are welcome to enter data or say you're going to attend events that you don't intend to actually go to. I promise you won't hurt anyone's feelings. |
Review our startup - EventGel | mrduncan: A few things that I noticed right away:- While I personally like 24h time for start and end time, I doubt most other people will feel the same way- The map is tough to read being so short, a little bit of height there would go a long way.- Links in discussions would be a lot easier to use if they were auto-hy... |
Review our startup - EventGel | officemedium: The interface makes me feel very "uncomfortable" and a little confused. You should consider laying things out a little nice - perhaps side by side?The logo / menu / page title instantly create some confusion and clutter. The timeline doesn't look too user-friendly either.I'm just commenting on the interfa... |
Review our startup - EventGel | uptown: I'd recommend placing some focus on what it looks like when printed. The nature of many events is that people will be going somewhere they may not be familiar with. If you look at how things are printed out, you'll see that it spans multiple pages, and isn't very easily readable. The printable version probab... |
Review our startup - EventGel | prakash: Congratulations, Kirubakaran and Paul! |
Review our startup - EventGel | mcxx: Ha, I had a similar idea. Now I don't have to create it myself, I can use yours, thanks guys :) |
Review our startup - EventGel | joshfinnie: When you sign up, it automatically fills in where it thinks you live. I'd be careful about this since I signed up @ work and it is not where I actually reside. I'd like a bit more information about myself in the profile, but I understand this is just the first iteration. I'd work on the profile page if y... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | keeptrying: I just ran through bunch of tests for my application. This is very nicely done. |
Review our startup - EventGel | gruseom: It's timely, considering that this came up yesterday:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881636You should convince the HN/Chicago crowd to use it. |
Review our startup - EventGel | alex_c: One nitpick: when scrolling up and down the page (using either two-finger drag on macbook, or mouse wheel) the scrolling gets "trapped" once the cursor gets over the timeline. |
Review our startup - EventGel | marknutter: It looks like it was designed by programmers. |
Anyone used XtraDB from Percona (instead of InnoDB)? | whirlycott1: Yeah, we've used it at StyleFeeder for some stuff. Although we leaned pretty hard on it, I really didn't see a big difference either way. I was a little surprised and expected to see some real gains, but they never materialized. |
Review our startup - EventGel | vlod: your probably aware that clicking on the 'test' activity seems to cause some sort of exception?MultipleObjectsReturned at /ev/startup-school/test/
get() returned more than one Activity -- it returned 2! Lookup parameters were {'urlname': u'test', 'event__urlname': u'startup-school'}
Request Method: GET
Request UR... |
Rate my startup, Go Test It (cross-browser testing) | jusob: Support of Selenium scripts is great. I was afraid only Ruby/Python were supported from your description.How can I delete or rename existing scripts?it would be great to have more browser available: Safari on Windows & Mac, Opera 8 to 10, Chrome, etc., along wit hthe option to disable javascript, Jva, Flash, etc... |
Review our startup - EventGel | levirosol: honestly, trying to be consumer minded, i opened your link, throat vomited at the design, and closed it.You may have a valid product, but the design, and I'm going to assume the usability, is killing you. consumers like shinny and clean.Now i'll take a second look at your site and provide some feedback on th... |
How do I keep my p/t web development team motivated? | FreeRadical: Why do you keep mentioning 5pmweb? |
Review our startup - EventGel | iterationx: I don't like the tagline: "Events made interactive" from your about statement I think you want something like "Collaborative events" |
Anyone used XtraDB from Percona (instead of InnoDB)? | shankar108: I recently deployed XtraDB 1.0.4-8 with MySQL 5.1.39 -- I've seen speedups of upto 50% on some queries -- especially on 1M+ row updates.Setup is easy. Here's what I did
1. download mysql 5.1.39 source tarball
2. download percona xtradb 1.0.4-8
3. extract mysql 5.1.39 tarball
4. delete contents of 'mysql-5.1... |
Review our startup - EventGel | edw519: This is great! I'm so glad to see you guys launch something. The first step is the biggest.I don't want to repeat what the others have said, but I've been playing around a little bit and off the top of my head: - Separate dates and times into their own fields
- Only one date field for single day events
-... |
How do I keep my p/t web development team motivated? | pavel_lishin: First I advise against communicating with them via giant walls of text, not checking whether those HTML paragraph breaks actually put in line breaks or not.edit: after making my way through it, this jumped out: "Right now, the understanding is that we will discuss payment when the website is complete."Thi... |
How do I keep my p/t web development team motivated? | justinlilly: What happens when the business takes off? Will you be okay with having your friends do it whenever its convenient for you? If not, you're going to have to get a team in there anyway. Why not do it sooner rather than later? That way, they have a system they have a say in, rather than inheriting something th... |
How do I keep my p/t web development team motivated? | kristianp: Modern wisdom goes; you need to set a deadline for release, then figure out what features can be implemented in that time frame. "Release early, release often". |
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