RE: Thrashing (was: info center search. III.)

["Shields, Ken" <kenshields@xxxxxxx>]

Jeff
        I believe you're correct.
        I posted a comment a few weeks ago, about programmer productity issues, 
which, for the most part
        was getting better and better until the advent of Windoze and event 
programming.
        Today, it's not incommon for a programmer , with say VB6, to spend tons 
of time just cranking out a simple
        program.
        One step forward, two back.....
Ken
>>
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and the incompatibilities.  Look at how much time and effort was spent
by 1 guy (as a user, mind you, not as a programmer) trying to find a way
to use this single web site.  And _none_ of it was not on solving the
business problem he had, it was trying to find info so he could solve a
business problem.

Back in college, when talking about memory management, when the OS spent
more time swapping programs in and out of memory than it did on actually
executing user program code, it was called "thrashing".

How many of you think we're "thrashing"?  And I don't mean in regards to
info center, I mean IT in general.  How many new things are we asked to
learn because they're the Next Big Thing and then are discarded 6 mos
later?  How many business issues don't get handled because we just
discovered a better way to do it, so we're going to wait until we take
that training course next month and then do it?  Where is the happy
medium?

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Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily
the opinion of my company.  Unless I say so.

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