An ad hoc sorting system for a grid of tiles on an enterprise app
Instead of sorting across row wise, it sorted columnar. So it was
<span style="color:#323232;">A E I M
</span><span style="color:#323232;">B F J N
</span><span style="color:#323232;">C G K O
</span><span style="color:#323232;">D H L P
</span>
Instead of
<span style="color:#323232;">A B C D
</span><span style="color:#323232;">E F G H
</span><span style="color:#323232;">I J K L
</span><span style="color:#323232;">M N O P
</span>
This was a requirement from the CEO. Since we used this project (dogfooding) we stuck a secret search box/command palette in, which you could hit . and then type the name of the thing you wanted and click it
Had a client that couldn’t understand a small dataset of data. They needed “something interactive to filter and sort the data for a human to review.” We suggested putting it into an excel spreadsheet, and did it for them. Customer didn’t know how to use excel so we had to create a knock-off excel table GUI that had buttons labeled “filter and sort”.
some people seem to have money they don’t know what to do with smh
Since I despise Excel (mostly for the auto converting feature) I appreciate that alternative.
OTOH I am all but a typical user, and while I occasionally use LibreOffice Calc I prefer basic statistics and charts for SQL-tables and CSV-like data in LINQPad (since it’s the tool I use every day, i.e. to spike out ideas before using a real IDE).
hey I’m right there with you. I didn’t want to type out all the details but the customer didn’t want to use any tools they had to “learn”. All they wanted to do was be able to do is view a file structured similarly to CVS. View, filter, and sort alphabetically. This was like a subtask of a bigger project.
Bottom line is we were like “hey don’t waste your money on this request, there are tons of tools that can do this”
Their response was essentially “we contracted you, you guys figure it out.” LOL okay, pay us for 1 additional month and you can have a program to load your csv and sort it
Anything where my dumb ass leadership announced far too early and users got excited and pushed for release. They gave unrealistic estimates so people were pissed when it didn’t fully release when they wanted it. It shipped unfinished and it died unfinished.
Waste of goddamn time and lots of stress. Don’t worry tho we got a new CEO and are going down the exact same fucking road.
Surely it can’t happen twice? Idk whether to laugh or cry most work days
Had a team of 10 working nights and weekends for a month because someone in sales sold a contract for an integration with a 3rd party that didn’t exist yet. In the years I was there after that project shipped, only 1 person even looked at the feature, one time. It never actually got used
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