Re: Microsoft Cleanliness
- From: lyle fairfield <lylefair@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:12:37 GMT
Salad <oil@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I guess I've been working with A97 too long. That program seemed
cleaner than A2003.
Used to be, in A97, you'd have tabs at the top to select what you
wanted to work with; table, query, form, etc. In A2000, MS for some
unknown reason decided to move the tabs to the side. In the database
window they added a couple of wizards to clutter it up instead of .
Then they moved the Open/Design/New to the top instead of the right
side. I guess MS did this because they were bored, needed to justify
their groups existence, and decided to waste developers time by
playing with the developer's mind.
See, this required a rewrite of code for them. They couldn't fix a
couple of simple things that to make a developer's life simpler
without going overboard. For example, select Forms/New/Wizard. Up
pops a dropdown of tables and queries and then the field list. Of
course, the dropdown has only 1 column. To make it more difficult, MS
preceeds each table with the word TABLE and each query with "QUERY".
As if I care. Make Table or Query a second column. I guess MS
programmers have never heard a dropdown can have more than one column.
Now go and drop a combo box on a form. Somebody at MS had common
sense at one time and allowed you to select from Table, Query, or both
in A97.
It simply had the table/query name. No excess garbage. But the
folks
needed to muck that up in A2000+ as well by adding Query or Table in
front of the Query/Table name. Hello! MS? Ever hear of 2 or more
columns?
Or let's say you create a new database and want to import some
objects.
Make sure the import window can't be resized. And of course don't
provide the modified/created dates to the users. The dates are
usually totally useless since A2000 because everytime you recompile
the remove all history. They could fix this by adding another date
column. This indicates MS coders have never worked on an application.
It also indicates they take the easy way out and instead of adding
some functionality decide that that extra 15 minutes of coding will
cut into their nap time.
Open up 2 or more modules. Click on Window. Your current window is
clean but they have to add the database name and window name for any
other open windows. Why? Who cares? Why does more garbage make
something better, MS?
And of course leave out a FileOpen dialog box function in all
versions.
Didn't that exist in VB1? It did in FoxPro DOS. Of course, MS must
assume Access applications are designed by DFUs, not developers.
Where does MS hire their programmers? In the interview process do
they see if the person can make a mountain out of a molehill, a simple
process more complex? Does MS cry Eureka! when they find such a
coder?
I think MS likes drones and order takers for their coders. They
certainly don't have creative people that can say "Hey, if we
implemented this feature it would help out the people that use this
product." Nope. "Hey, here's the specs. Don't think. Just code."
That's the MS way.
MS used to have a "wish list" area you could send them your ideas.
That must be a big ciruclar file called BWAHAHAHAHAHA. The MVPs
either have no say on what can be simple fixes for MS or they're used
to mundanity.
The book writers of MS products probably have the most input on the
development process and feature list.
MS should hire a a person that's worked on Access application and help
direct their pie-in-the-sky, ivory tower dreams and get them focused
back into reality. Get rid of the FOC (fresh out of college morons)
and get someone that has worked outside of their world and has been
required to use some imagination.
Last week the wind blew very hard here from the West for several days. It
was cold and that wind made being outside very uncomfortable. Of course,
a few trees and branches came down, and some roofs were damaged.
It seemed that God had erred.
We have a beautiful marsh, Cootes Paradise, here at the west end of Lake
Ontario but it's been dying for decades because of the invasion of carp,
which muddy the water, and uproot the vegetation.
Our conservation authority built a carp barrier at the entrance to the
marsh from the lake proper, and this prevents carp from coming into the
marsh. For years we've been capturing and removing the carp from the
marsh area, but each year a few hundred remain, and in the spring they
breed; growing conditions are ideal ands soon there are tens of thousands
of carp in the marsh again.
The wind blew all the water from the marsh. The carp were carried along
with the water, or they weren't and died.
At last, after so much effort, the marsh is free of carp.
Please, choose the moral of the story:
1. Most changes have some good results.
or
2. We should get on with life without carping.
--
lyle fairfield
I will arise and go now,
For always night and day
I hear lake water lapping
With low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway
Or on the pavements gray,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
- Yeats
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