I just finished reading a write up of a SharePoint Designer Good Bad Ugly as “SharePoint Designer a definite Maybe” by Mark Rackley. I think he makes some good points early in the document, but many of the conclusions which come across biased to structured deployments I don’t agree with as they relate to composite commodity and collaboration environments. Some of the statements especially his conclusions are just too wide sweeping and come across as scare tactics. Don’t let this come across as higher ground… I make the same mistake some times in my attempts to keep people from deploying custom site definitions due to their impact at upgrade, but that’s a different discussion. Often it takes a good post to get the community stirred up to flush out the details… I applaud Mark on making a stand Read More...

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Posted Tue, Mar 31 2009 10:24 AM by SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land