"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! 🙂
