And far into the 2000s a MARS NWE did run in the print shop. Speaking of Novell, the software became multi-user capable a few years later. Luckily, the time last was limited – other companies were not so lucky, like Lotus or Novell. There were also failures: the attempt to „rewrite the whole project in a clean way“ failed spectacular. A few years later Martin Fowler’s Refactoring gave the anwer to „Why did it fail?“. But with a little bit of creativity, I could solve that: one example was the „ Order – Resurrection“, which allowed to create a new order from an old one…something that happens quite often in a printer’s shop for writing paper. As little probleme were collisions with the letters. This allowed for a quick start of new users as well as fast handling for seasoned operators. You could enter the letter as well as select the menu item from the list: Instead I’ve built a menu hierarchy and used letters instead of numbers. The usual programs back then were built on numbers: „enter 57 for incoming payments“. Accordingly her knowledge how to use that box was low. We had a secretary for whom my programm was the first contact with a computer. Back then I’ve learned my first lessen of what later was called „User Experience“: The first versions were written in dBase III which soon changed to Clipper „Summer 87“. My parents own a print shop which is why my first programs have been written for the management of it.
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