• Brenton (unregistered) in reply to snoofle

    Why kill the spider when you can cut off one of its legs and sell it for $10000?

  • (cs) in reply to Kuba
    Kuba:
    But hey, DigiKey recently moved from a screen-scraped system seemingly designed by a COBOL-speaking retiree with lots of big iron experience, to... the same effing thing, this time done in ASP.NET. While I do praise them that they take it step by step towards the state of the art, their ASP.NET skills still leave something to be desired... mostly in usability department ;)

    Cheers, Kuba

    oh man, Digikey. I fully agree with your assessment... I suggested two years ago that they add some options for "only give me results for products with a minimum order quantity up to X" and "allow me to sort by price". TWO YEARS ago. One of those adds one more column to the list of db queries they allow you to throw "order by <col> asc/desc", the other is similarly trivial... they replied happily stating they would look into it and instead rebuilt the whole thing as a steaming pile of ASP without adding anything. Mouser often has better prices and more varied stock in most of the categories I use, so I've slowly been switching over to them.

  • (cs)

    This type of thing happens all the time. Since the consultants that initially consulted with the client were from the crystal citadel, the client agreed to crystal citadel hourly rates, and (reasonably) expected a deliverable worthy of a crystal citadel. What has always happened, and will always happen, is that the CotCCs turn around and give the work to consultants of, say, the mud huts. This way, the CotCCs keep their hefty margin between their crystal receivables and their mud hut expenses. Unfortunately, the client also gets a mud hut deliverable, but by then it's too late. Sure, the client could sue, but that crystal citadel also houses a lot of lawyers...

  • john (unregistered)

    This seems reasonable. Copy entire catalog is failure but I can fix that. Just make sure each item in the catalog has an id (primary key), create an Orders table with FK and PK, yeah. I can build a proper database around this no problem, and fix their poor implementation. I'd scrap that "Copy entire catalog" thing in favor of creating a session and storing the necessary information on the client, or perhaps even as an order and have the order's "state" i.e. incomplete stored as well, so you could go somewhere else and log in and "hey you still have this cart."

    What's the problem here? It needs some tweaks.

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