Sharepoint Sucks

Microsoft SharePoint straight up sucks. There...I feel better. I just changed jobs at my company and the new group I am in recently "converted" to SharePoint. So what did that buy them that a mapped network drive did not already provide? Good question. Nothing.

Ever been told..."The documents are up on SharePoint, take a look". LOL. I love that one. Has anyone ever found a document on SharePoint? Using SharePoint is like closing your eyes and spinning in a circle 20 times. When you open your eyes you are all disoriented and typically fall to the ground unable to deal with your surroundings. That is how i feel when i use SharePoint. Where am I? How did i get here? And how do i get back here tomorrow morning?

Hey, just bookmark it or send someone the link...you know the nice SharePoint links...http://rgweuhguw.ergergr.com/%20dfkjnsdf%20/rfgeferf%20fjrehf%20/ejfhwlkfhw%20eff%20/dfsdfsdf%20/efwefwef%20/ewfefwfwef%20dfds/fe%20dfsfe%20 (that is the new requirements document by the way)

I have been using a Personal License for the Confluence Wiki. Wow. This is so nice and easy to use. No bloated Word or Excel documents, just use your web browser. Collaboration could not be easier. Hyperlinks are used to link together documents and directly to the web. Ever try using Hyperlinks to link together Word Documents? ROFL! Have fun with that. If you really need Office documents, you can link to them from the Wiki with one of those nice Sharepoint links.

Netbeans 6.5

So i am using Netbeans 6.5 for a small Swing based tool. The Swing GUI editor is really nice...the best i have ever seen. Very simple to use and the code it generates is not the usual nasty spaghetti code GUI designers usually spit out. However i hit a major problem.

I create a JFrame and drag and drop some components and begin to frame out the way i want things to look. Rather than have all my code in one monolithic Class, i decide to separate out one of my JPanels into a separate Class. Okay, i now have my first Component only to find there is no way to add it to the Component palette. Huh?

After some research i find out i need to make it into a separate Jar file to have it show up on my palette. Huh? How am i supposed to get it onto my JFrame? The only way to add my Class which extends JPanel to the JFrame is to manually code it. What the hell is the point of a GUI designer if I have to manually add my GUI components?

I have no idea how this is not part of the product? Are Java Swing programmers really that bad and want all their application code in a single Class? What a let down. I thought Netbeans was going to simplify my life. Back to Eclipse and manually hacking Swing code i go....