A Thoughts on a real-world application

May 24, 2009 by Kornelije Sajler    No Comments    Posted under: Empty words

There’s now two weeks since I wrote my last blog. I had some “emotional problems” and of course I get the late invitation for CASE21. It won’t be a seminar but only lecture and I had to do overnight work to accomplish the lecture.

Last Saturday, I was also “conducting” electronic processing of a Championship of swimming with fin for Croatian Diving Federation (CDF) and they have “some kind of” software made with Microsoft Access and VBA (Visual Basic for Application) which is poorly designed and very unpredictable in using (you can expect everything to go wrong, anytime and in each championship there’s some kind of problem with this application). And while no one knows how to use it (lack of computer knowledge and work in some real-world application),  I am condemned to struggle with this poorly designed and not extensible application.

So now, as I have some kind of understanding how this application called “FinSwim” works and more of it I have regulations book of CDF with all rules. I decide to use at as a model for my real-world application. So when I don’t understand or how it works, from current application, I can read and made it clear from regulations book of CDF.

Application is not so complex in model sense but has quite some validations, rules, statistics, scoring and great deal of reporting. The final result of championship is bulletin of all happenings at championship.

More of it in next posts!

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