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Least successful dev project?
Week 177 Group Rant
saucyatom
5y

wk177 (least successful project)

A maps behemoth created by a single dev (↑). It took "only" 2 years to get a halfway proper version out. Said dev could have saved half of the time if he (well, his employer) bought the control from a company that has all their devs working on just that (.NET controls) and thus the dev wouldn't have had to reinvent the wheel with the very basic control of the map service provider.

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  • 1
    5y
    This is what I like about the wpf ecosystem.

    So many commercially supported controls.

    Yeah it means I'm paying more but it also means it's not some broken half-arsed anemically-supported opensource project floating unknown in the void somewhere out in gitspace.
  • 0
    5y
    @Wisecrack Just a pity that I overlooked this particular one / didn't tell my boss to buy it. But I guess I learned a lot anyway, just a bit too much specialized knowledge (i.e. the quirks of the control I used) that I won't really need outside of this project.
  • 0
    5y
    What vendor is it? (just curious)

    I hear good things about syncfusion..but I'm biased because all the fantastic ebooks they put out for free to entice developers.
  • 0
    5y
    @Wisecrack I took the Microsoft Bing Maps control instead of Telerik's map control. The funny thing is that we bought Telerik's controls a year later.
    (now this is very specific, but I highly doubt that there is anyone else from my company here)
  • 0
    5y
    If you don't mind me asking, which was a better development experience, wpf bing map or telerik?
  • 1
    5y
    @Wisecrack well the Bing control is very basic. It can show the map, draw objects and has basic navigation (move, zoom). The Telerik control on the other hand can do all of that plus lots of neat things like grouping objects close to each other and much more (check their website). https://telerik.com/products/wpf/...

    I had to implement quite a few features by myself and I am not a maps engineer. Well maybe now I am..
  • 1
    4y
    @saucyatom

    "did it once ten years ago? throw it on the resume!"
  • 1
    4y
    @Wisecrack "designed and implemented an interoperable, embedded cartographical depiction SaaS solution with geolocation analysis, user-defined variables and a customized cloud-based authentication scheme with an offline fallback solution, based on [...]"

    Alright it's getting too much, I have better things to do.
  • 0
    4y
    @saucyatom

    lol.
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