Thursday, March 23, 2006

100 Plastic Hammers.

Again, resorting to the truism that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. What's your toolbox look like?

Here, we've got several web applications and tools that we've written for the customer, but nothing is set up in any cohesive manner, and the tools are unrelated URLs now that don't really fit together.

100 hammers, no toolbox.

That, and we have taken minor differences in reference, and broken them out into entirely separate applications. One region will use one version of the application, another region will use another version.

Kind of like having one hammer for finishing nails, and one hammer for brads. Why?

And when we end up writing 50 apps for 50 little tasks, instead of incorporating 10 similar tasks into the same application, with option differences, what do we end up with?

10 plastic toy hammers, when you could have one good Estwing.

So, one of my goals this year will be to consolidate all the little web apps into a single cohesive site. Second, I'll be wanting to take my two separate applications that I currently have, and merge them into one good app. Built to do a few different things.

One good hammer, one good toolbox. That's the goal.

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