{"id":799,"date":"2012-02-08T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T12:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/?p=799"},"modified":"2012-02-08T12:19:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T12:19:30","slug":"linux-sharepoint-perl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/2012\/02\/08\/linux-sharepoint-perl\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux, SharePoint & Perl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sharetoperl: A half-shark, half-octopus creature created for the University, creates a whole lot of terror in Southampton while a computer scientist who helped created it tries to capture\/kill it. <\/p><\/div>\n

(alternative title: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly)<\/p>\n

At the Univrsity of Southampton we’ve jumped into Sharepoint in a big way. It’s a grumpy beast, and doesn’t think like me, but it’s got some things going for it. Currently I’m working with SP2007 but I’m told SP2010 is less insanely IE\/Windows centric. Which wouldn’t be hard. There’s options in SP2007 which only<\/em> work in Internet Explorer on a Windows box – yuck!<\/p>\n

That said it’s a good way to create sets of documents with rich controls on people & groups who can read and write them.<\/p>\n

It does Calendars, but they’re a bit of a joke. Utterly Microsoft-centric so I’m just ignoring them. There’s probably ways to make them better, but I’ll worry about it another day.<\/p>\n

The other thing SharePoint does is things called “Lists”, which is a kinda catch all term for, well, lists of stuff, including the contents of a document library, calendars (I think), and dataish spreadsheetish things.<\/p>\n

Now if I could control those from a nice command line (Perl) script it would let me do lots of interesting clever things without ending up in treatment for .NET induced substance abuse.<\/p>\n

So I’ve been around the Web, and there’s a few helpful posts, but none of them worked (quite), but a combination of hacks got me to something which did work (around 5am this morning).<\/p>\n