I have a few gripes after going through this process. These are things I have long been sick of but now that they've become the cause of much sleep deprivation, I therefore declare war on....
- Crap software companies that over-charge non-profits with promises of technology like you haven't seen since the mid-90s. I'm looking at you, Convio Luminate! This I think is worth a post in and of itself.
- Crap IT support who don't have any clue what they're doing. Some of my difficulties ended up being the result of having to reverse engineer what turned out to be a completely asinine domain configuration by this organization's IT support consultant. They've already expressed dissatisfaction with this guy, and I'm going to recommend that they drop him altogether.
- Visualforce reRenders. I used to think it was me, that there were just nuances to reRendering in Visualforce that I was missing. And while I'm sure that is the case at times, I'm now also quite sure that the way reRender works in Visualforce can be just plain inconsistent. I discovered in this project that pages that I wrote months ago that were working perfectly fine, now had to re-written because reRenders which previously worked no longer did. My fellow developer and contractor has found the same thing and has taken to using a third-party Javascript to do the reRenders in many scenarious. I'm with her (yup, another female developer!)
