The Detention Wizard

The Detention Wizard - In this story I blame the school for clearly not choosing a competent software developer.  This app has so many problems it's frigging unbelievable.  

And regretfully it's an Access based app so it perpetuates the stereotype of Access being a useless product.  Although it's not at all clear that the front end is in Access.  The first few comments think it was a VB app.

How many flaws?  I feel rather ill just starting to itemizing them.  "retina-burningly bright colors applied as a gradient background.", "blink", "unlabeled buttons", "support only eight food items"

One amusing comment - "I've always referred to these kinds of apps as "garage apps"".   Other comments were very denigrating to VB or Access.  <sigh>

Published Mon, Jun 30 2008 20:59 by Tony
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