Irony
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After a year of development, and coincidentally the first work day after posting my 5-part article series about it, my "new and improved" ED board application was killed today. It seems that everyone wants a web-based system. Ahhh, the whims of the customer...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
After a year of development, and coincidentally the first work day after posting my 5-part article series about it, my "new and improved" ED board application was killed today. It seems that everyone wants a web-based system. Ahhh, the whims of the customer...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001At least it helped you get platinum!!!:-D
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After a year of development, and coincidentally the first work day after posting my 5-part article series about it, my "new and improved" ED board application was killed today. It seems that everyone wants a web-based system. Ahhh, the whims of the customer...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001Yeah, this is exactly what I've been talking about in my posts about C# being used more for desktop or web, and how much work there is out there for each. I think the Internet is a very nice thing. That said, I can't stand the capricious and trendy thinking which dictates that everything must run in a web browser, just because it's the current cool thing to do. I worked for one of the major cell phone companies in 96, and we developed a Windows / MFC app that was an in depth, multi-city system for non billing info. On time, under budget. As soon as it was done, and I mean like two weeks later, they decided to completely rewrite the system as a web based app on a UNIX back end. No changes in features, functionality or accessibility (it was an internal app). Just rewritten for the web because that's what was new and groovy. Lemmings.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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Yeah, this is exactly what I've been talking about in my posts about C# being used more for desktop or web, and how much work there is out there for each. I think the Internet is a very nice thing. That said, I can't stand the capricious and trendy thinking which dictates that everything must run in a web browser, just because it's the current cool thing to do. I worked for one of the major cell phone companies in 96, and we developed a Windows / MFC app that was an in depth, multi-city system for non billing info. On time, under budget. As soon as it was done, and I mean like two weeks later, they decided to completely rewrite the system as a web based app on a UNIX back end. No changes in features, functionality or accessibility (it was an internal app). Just rewritten for the web because that's what was new and groovy. Lemmings.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
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Yeah, this is exactly what I've been talking about in my posts about C# being used more for desktop or web, and how much work there is out there for each. I think the Internet is a very nice thing. That said, I can't stand the capricious and trendy thinking which dictates that everything must run in a web browser, just because it's the current cool thing to do. I worked for one of the major cell phone companies in 96, and we developed a Windows / MFC app that was an in depth, multi-city system for non billing info. On time, under budget. As soon as it was done, and I mean like two weeks later, they decided to completely rewrite the system as a web based app on a UNIX back end. No changes in features, functionality or accessibility (it was an internal app). Just rewritten for the web because that's what was new and groovy. Lemmings.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
The really ironic part of my tale of woe is that I offered to change it to a web app about two months into the project, and they told me "no". :)
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 -
Yeah, this is exactly what I've been talking about in my posts about C# being used more for desktop or web, and how much work there is out there for each. I think the Internet is a very nice thing. That said, I can't stand the capricious and trendy thinking which dictates that everything must run in a web browser, just because it's the current cool thing to do. I worked for one of the major cell phone companies in 96, and we developed a Windows / MFC app that was an in depth, multi-city system for non billing info. On time, under budget. As soon as it was done, and I mean like two weeks later, they decided to completely rewrite the system as a web based app on a UNIX back end. No changes in features, functionality or accessibility (it was an internal app). Just rewritten for the web because that's what was new and groovy. Lemmings.
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalStrategyConsulting.com
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Just rewritten for the web because that's what was new and groovy.
... and because it had less support, maintenance and deployment costs! :cool:
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After a year of development, and coincidentally the first work day after posting my 5-part article series about it, my "new and improved" ED board application was killed today. It seems that everyone wants a web-based system. Ahhh, the whims of the customer...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001I have noticed this trend for a while now. Seems a lot of desktop applications are moving to web based systems. As I posted in another thread, I think WPF/E will greatly help blur the line between desktop and web applications. In the future, something like this may only cause you minutes up to a few days work and your are ready to go again.
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