Fracking fick septics

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darmstadt replied

15 March 2010, 21:36
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...
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minestrone replied

15 March 2010, 20:31
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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darmstadt replied

15 March 2010, 20:11
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
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Drewster replied

15 March 2010, 19:28
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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HairyArsedBloke started a topic Fracking fick septics

15 March 2010, 19:01
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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