jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Thu Aug 30 10:19:46 CDT 2007
And that seems to be the problem. The ribbon bars are all about the user and ignore the needs and wants of developers. As a developer I know where everything is. I click menu items all day, use shortcut keys, do things automatically. Now suddenly all that stuff doesn't work and I can't get any work done. This stuff is know as "muscle memory" and it is a well documented fact. Your body just "learns" how to do things, everything from typing to playing an instrument to holding a fork to walking. Imagine handing a sax player a saxophone where all of the keys are randomly changed. Now imagine handing that to a professional musician with a concert to play that night, where he is being paid thousands of dollars to play. Now imagine handing such instruments to every member of the orchestra. It is bad enough to do that to my users, but I charge my clients hundreds of dollars an hour to hunt down where they hid everything. My clients are NOT HAPPY and they are NOT HAPPY with ME!!! John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:04 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] What problems converting A2K3 mdb to A2K7? No, but I use it everyday. I have a few small db's that I use every day for my own purpose and then of course, all the writing, which is mostly for users, not developers. I haven't had any trouble adapting and my db's have upgraded without issue, but I'm not using high-end stuff. I just track assignments and money. Susan H. But do you do development on a day to day basis, for a livelihood? That could affect your like. ;-) -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com