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Fracking fick septics

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    Fracking fick septics

    One of the low-life plebs of one of the client co's has been on the dog complaining that he can't find things he want's.

    Pleb: "Have you heard of something called Bloomberg?"

    HAB: "Aye."

    Pleb: "Why can't you make it look and work just like Bloomberg?"

    HAB: "For a start I don't want to be sued for copyright. That interface is legacy. I'm not really doing the same thing."

    Pleb: "But I know how to get what I want there"

    HAB: "What do you want to do?"

    Pleb: "I want ......"

    HAB: "To do what?

    Pleb: "To produce ...."

    HAB: "You mean, just like <facility>?"

    Pleb: "Hang on. Oh yeah. Oh that's good. I see. I can......"



    I might be crap at doing all this really fancy UI stuff, but there is no way am I going back to a MS/DOS or VDU screen system.
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    #2
    Its not just the septics.....
    I've lost count of the number of Clients who want that latest whizz-bang toy/system (because it is the latest whizz-bang toy/system) and then proceed to neuter it and try to make it work "just like <insert legacy system>"
    cos its "always worked like that".........

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      #3
      All day long people have been walking in and out of the office I share drinking Sekt and beer and eating snacks, making a noise and sitting either on my desk or in my chair when I go to the bog. Did I get any work done, did I get offered any booze? Like buggery
      Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Drewster View Post
        Its not just the septics.....
        I've lost count of the number of Clients who want that latest whizz-bang toy/system (because it is the latest whizz-bang toy/system) and then proceed to neuter it and try to make it work "just like <insert legacy system>"
        cos its "always worked like that".........
        I worked on a project where the client (the police) insisted on remaking a mainframe app to run inside a browser but it has to work exactly like the legacy app. Look and feel, keystrokes, even the bugs had to be copied.

        I have never seen so much javascript. the real fun started when they wrote it all for IE and then some of the forces said they would be running on firefox.

        I just ended up leaving after 6 months. It never worked unsurprisingly.

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          #5
          Originally posted by minestrone View Post
          I worked on a project where the client (the police) insisted on remaking a mainframe app to run inside a browser but it has to work exactly like the legacy app. Look and feel, keystrokes, even the bugs had to be copied.

          I have never seen so much javascript. the real fun started when they wrote it all for IE and then some of the forces said they would be running on firefox.

          I just ended up leaving after 6 months. It never worked unsurprisingly.
          I did one exactly the same in Holland, I left after 6 weeks after telling them that the software company had been telling them a few porkies about how long it would take. There were over 60 applications with a few hundred COBOL programs I had to 'web-enable' and they were told it would be a matter of weeks to do. My estimate of me doing it alone was about a year...
          Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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