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Dead end tools and technologies you wished you hadn't bothered with

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    #11
    microsoft
    "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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      #12
      Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
      I once did a project in Paradox.
      Did the requirement come afterwards?
      "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark Twain

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        #13
        Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
        Did the requirement come afterwards?
        Don't start me on Requirments

        One of my current Adgile projects requirments:

        "Not spend my time fire fighting due to system short falls"

        Give me proper requirments then
        Fiscal nomad it's legal.

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          #14
          Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
          Did the requirement come afterwards?
          I don't think I've ever worked on anything where I had the requirements at the start.
          Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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            #15
            Originally posted by alreadypacked View Post
            Don't start me on Requirments

            One of my current Adgile projects requirments:

            "Not spend my time fire fighting due to system short falls"

            Give me proper requirments then


            Don't tell me that this is an Agile environment where the users get what the developers think they should deliver rather than what the users need.



            Despite my sceptiscm of the Agile approach, it probably can work well in some scenarios and in those you need to help the stakeholders articulate and prioritise what they want delivered.

            The comment
            Not spend my time fire fighting due to system short falls
            suggests to me that some work is required in that department.

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              #16
              Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
              Here's a list of some things I put a lot of time and effort into learning and resulted in very little reward.

              Visual InterDev. Why did I bother with this croc?
              VB6 WebClasses. Dead before it even started. I knew these inside out and yet no one used them.
              LINQ to SQL. Killed by MS just as I was starting to know it well. http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/...nq-to-sql.aspx



              Any others here a specialist in learning dead-end technology?
              Array binding to data grids in .Net
              Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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                #17
                Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
                I don't think I've ever worked on anything where I had the requirements at the start.
                In this case I think I would be better off.

                "Be able to have a fully flexible multi-skilled workforce" WTF
                Fiscal nomad it's legal.

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                  #18
                  French cars.
                  And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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                    #19
                    Oracle.

                    What a waste of time.

                    I wouldn't advise any of you to learn any of it.
                    The pope is a tard.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by alreadypacked View Post
                      In this case I think I would be better off.

                      "Be able to have a fully flexible multi-skilled workforce" WTF
                      THEN SPEND A BIT OF MONEY ON TRAINING THEN!!!

                      I feel for you AP, I'D SPEND MY WHOLE CONTRACT* SHOUTING AT THEM!!!

                      (*Which would probably be quite short...)
                      "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
                      - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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