tuntis’s blog

God I hate designing user interfaces. I'm working on myWorkTimer 1.1 (I don't know why, I'm probably the only person using it), which will feature the following (and maybe more):

• Category system. You can categorize work entries: for example, if you're working on software, you might categorize entries to "1.0" and "1.1". You can obviously see the time worked on just one category or all categories.
• Work Manager. The old work log dialog becomes the work manager, where you can manage work entries and categories. This is what's the problem. I hate designing user interfaces. I made this:

Until I realized what the hell I was doing. This is absolutely horrible. It looks awful. But then again, what should it be like? I don't want it to be a complicated DataGridView (you know, an Access- like table view). I don't know what the Work Manager should look like. And I hate working with datasets. Though I think that's just the PHP logic kicking in: in PHP you escape strings yourself and loop through stuff: with ADO.NET, you have parameters and datasets to do it for you. ▪

In other news, Niek still hasn't written a new blog post.