In the world of software development, it’s a common thing that you will get some piece of packaged software, stick it into your application, and you’ll get that functionality for free. It’s almost as common a thing that you’ll get some piece of packaged software, stick it into your application, spend 2 hours trying to get it to work, then decide that it’s a piece of crap that doesn’t really work at all. So that’s what I’ve been doing this morning. There’s a rudimentary collection widget that you can currently see on a page like this:
http://extstats.drfriendless.com/collection.html?geek=tallboy
(stick your own BGG user ID in the URL). Today’s job which took a mere 6 hours was to put the data in a table which supports sorting and paging. I hope not every task on this project takes 12 times longer than it should.
