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Re: [PHP] Supporting "Cancel"

Posted by Richard Lynch on 03/02/05 22:09

Dan Tappin wrote:
> To be honest the real answer will be unpopular but since the old system
> is unusable, not maintainable it should be replaced. I think if you
> estimated the time / cost to rebuild the system from scratch it would
> still be the better than trying to continue with this PITA system.
>
> Why don't you at least start on a new UI from this point and show the
> company the benefits and then work on replacing the old UI?
>
> I think holding on to the old way of doing things just because so much
> time was put into it is perhaps a short term solution.

I agree with you 100% in principle.

I failed to mention this, however:

I now work for the "Institute of Design" a graduate school for product
Design of the "Illinois Institute of Technology"

The front-end of the site was "Designed" by a committee of faculty.

The back-end was designed by my boss the IT/faculty guy, and by a
first-year graduate student who means well, and is really nice and all
that, but...

I've only been here a couple months. They still believe the code-base of
my predecessor is GREAT.

Let's just say it would be work-political suicide to suggest starting over
at this point. And I *do* need a job right now.

On the "plus" side, minimalism is "in" now, so the front-end is actually
not so bad, for the most part.

And my boss is anti-JavaScript, anti-Flash, and even anti-Cookie (well,
he's not, but he knows too many users are) so a lot of Good Things are
involved here.

Even the back end isn't *BAD* except for trying to make it too much like a
desktop application, which didn't seem to bother my predecessor and his
zillion temp tables.

PS Y'all take this CEO thang way too seriously :-) It's a JOKE!

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