Why is engineering software so allergic to any kind of non-shit UI/UX?
Today, it was DFMPro requiring it’s config app to be run as an admin to save settings in an xml file that lives in? The user home directory.
It lets you enter the name of a SQL server, the port and database, but no authentication info. Funny, the verification step always fails.
It has an app server setting, but it rejects anything that isn’t <port@server> and can’t connect even when that’s correct.
If you hand-edit the XML file to include the auth info, DFM overwrites it. It overwrites on launch, quit, and every time you do anything with DFM.
Fuck
Me
Running
Note that to get this fuckin’ thing to talk to SQL server on any port other than 1433 took the devs
SIX
FUCKING
MONTHS
to get us a version that could do that.
I spend so much time managing UI/UX clown shows and every goddamned second is unnecessary and a waste.
This will take so much time to get the devs to fix.
It will take time from other, better things I could be doing.
Like putting in white pants and viciously sharting myself.
This is why I am such an ass about UI/UX, because it’s all unneeded fuckery that causes stupid problems.
At this point, I’ll trade features for UI/UX, because if that’s tight, the fewer features will work better.
Bynkii