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Frankly it’s a bit like HyperCard.
One of the things we learned early on in trying to integrate a D365 system into our UI integration test automation, was that when you changed pages, the previous page was actually still in the DOM and so if you didn’t update your locators to the new “context” or screen, you’d be trying to interact with things from two screens ago. I dunno honestly what they would have done without someone like me who could actually RE that. The guy that had seniority over me was completely lost.
Imagine JS and C# had a baby, and it was mentally challenged.
We used it for ERP, including sales, CSR, and inventory. But we still had a separate WMS, and we had to build glue to sync the WMS inventory data with the D365 data, bidirectionally.
Yeppers. When I worked on a D365 transition we were upgrading from a 1980s era DOS based thing (D3 aka Pick). We literally had like one of the last Pick developers left on earth. He ended up training his two kids on the system so they could take over for him. They all ended up having to learn X++ instead. I wonder which was worse to deal with.
I spent the better part of a year and a half writing automation for an integrated stack that included D365. (RSAT wasn’t an option since we had to also interact with other systems and sql databases and what not to perform end-to-end flows across multiple systems.) It was literally the biggest resource and time suck of all the stuff we had to interact with – and we had to interact with some really hoky stuff. But D365 took the cake. At least two people quit over it.
HomerOS here we come
10·9 days agoWould actively fuck apps up because it would register as a file touch and break things that expected unchanged file content
I swore I read that mysql dbs will store multiple bools in a row as bit maps in one byte. I can’t prove it though
Which part?
cries in left_pad
It’s kind of astonishing how many people leaned on that library just to add fucking spaces to strings
Me: I need spec – not just trust code Manager: You always make unnecessary demands, I’m replacing you AI: I would be happy to help you, if you could provide spec? Manager: god fuckin dammit
I honestly sometimes think to go into business myself just so I can write contracts that say “you will give us a fucking spec” and just keep billing while they fuck around not providing a spec
That’s the weird endgame here, the result will be stronger international China influence and less international US influence.
It’s like the Generals willfully losing against the Globetrotters.
Cali tariff exemptions
Um, how?
The only way out of this at this point is … to get out.
Big number get bigger, if you not good, big man make big number more bigger
When we finally onboarded the D365 ERP replacement, management wanted to run perf testing on it told them we could do it in JMeter, and we already had JMeter code that we’d used for the older systems, and we’d learned more than enough from including it in integration automation, that I was sure we could do it.
Instead they hired two chodes from an agency and told them to use some odd tool. Literally a month into that project one of the contractors asked me straight up why we weren’t just using JMeter.
They eventually cut those guys because they weren’t able to produce, and then went with some kookball Akamai solution (Cloudtest?) They didn’t even seem to realize that by going with that solution, they were going to be beholden to paying Akamai every time they wanted to run it. They somehow managed to cajole Akamai into giving us a standalone version of the tool, but they didn’t seem to comprehend that when you run it that way you don’t get the cloud.
It’s funny, someone asked me the other day why I quit that job, and I’m now suddenly starting to remember why.
It was actually a pretty good company, it just wasn’t a software company, so its tech decisions were often really bonkers. But that aside, it was actually a good company, and part of me kicks myself for leaving it – I’d probably still be working there four years later.
I might have needed a lot of therapy in the meantime, though