Lazy designers
Saw the following on http://www.kuvalehdet.fi/lahjalehti:
Kirjoita 8-numeroinen asiakasnumerosi ilman kirjaintunnusta. Jos asiakasnumerossasi on yhdeksän merkkiä, jätä ensimmäinen nolla pois. Jos asiakasnumerosi on lyhyempi kuin 8-numeroa., lisää tarvittava määrä nollia numeron eteen.
Roughly translated as: "Type in your 8-digit customer code. If your customer code has nine digits, leave the first zero out. If it has less than 8 digits, add a suitable number of zeros in front of it."
Excuse me? Writing a piece of code which does that automatically - even in Javascript, in the browser - is the kind of an exercise you give to a first-year programming student right after the first "Hello World" -program.
Why burden the user with the complexities and rules of the underlying database?
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That's exactly why there's so much business for companies like us to do in this industry. Lot's of simple mistakes where companies are tech oriented instead of being customer oriented.--Antti, 26-Jan-2008
It was probably more expensive to pay the copywriter to come up with clear enough instructions than it would have been for the first-year programmer to fix the code...
--Niko, 09-Feb-2008