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- Ways to be a Crappy Code Contractor
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Here are some ways that application development contractors can piss off clients, and make all geeks look bad.
Flex File Management
One common entry on the list of "bad user experiences" is file manipulation.
Users are often expected to know where a transferred file was stored, or to navigate the ugly web 1.0 upload process, or know and understand the repetition required in posting multiple files for a single purpose...
I've made a few (Flex 2, Flex 3 - ActionScript 3) file management widgets by leveraging the Flash FileReference object, FileFilter object and/or extending the Flex UIComponent.
These are just screenshots of three different file management widgets I've written:
