Apr 04 2008
"Guru of governance?"
My old mate from employers yonder, Mike Stringfellow is one of those developers who always liked to take a step back and think through the bigger picture implications of various design/coding decisions. It’s just a pity that at that particular company we worked at, he was in the minority. (Not helped by some unbelievably poor executive level management wacky views of reality).
So I became one of those bitter and twisted anal infrastructure guys who always seemed to default to "No", when asked a question. (Usually "no" was the right answer nonetheless). I was told by another colleague that some of the (web) developers were scared of me… but Mike at least understood why 
He recently blogged the idea of using features to modify web.config file of a web application. After all, the SharePoint SDK offers the WebConfigModifications property (of the SPWebApplication) class. He suggested that as a governance nazi I might have issues with this idea. As it turns out I do, but only for you developers that have been slack-arsed and not done your homework!
