Blaming the Previous Guy

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:52:58 GMT

Let me define irresponsibility. Not taken taking responsibility for something. We are all responsible for our current situation. Blaiming it on the economy is irresponsible. Blaming it on the guy that quit three months ago is irresponsible as well. You had months to fix it. Fix it!

Most often when someone blames the previous guy, you can assume that the current guy is simply irresponsible. I can't remember how many times a programmer tried this on me. It's not my fault, the previous guy's code is horrible! That's a phrase said as often as the national anthem.

Blaming the previous guy is a sign of irresponsibility. It's sometimes justified, but rarely. Even if justified, then you should have fixed it. Period.

NHL.com Mobile

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:07:37 GMT

Possibly one of the worst mobile website implementations is that of NHL.com. I've always avoided NHL.com on my mobile device because it didn't work at all. It looked like they were serving me a full HTML website with lots of graphics, CSS and Javascript that don't work on my mobile Internet Explorer.

All of a sudden today I'm being served a mobile version of NHL.com on my desktop computer (not a mobile device) and I don't know how to get back to the full website. 101 in mobile design, give the user the ability to escape back to the non-mobile version of the site. Morons!

http://www.nhl.com/

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Blaming the Previous Guy

NHL.com Mobile