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Re: [LUG] Cornwall County Council website



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Aaron Trevena wrote:
>
> Today I spent an hour sompleting an online form applying for a job at CCC
> using Mozilla on Linux. Of course CCC website is designed and implemented
> by inexperienced and unqualified amateurs

Amateurs - no I'm sure they got paid for doing it badly!

"Professional" has nearly as many meaning as "free".

Curiously I had an English teacher who never tired of telling us the
origins of the phrase amateur, but then he was a bit strange. I have a
suspicion he hated me, mainly for being a school kid, but partly for
being more into maths and physics than English, I think his only
positive comment in 2 years was "I like your poem".

I think the negative connotations of amateurish are unfortunate,
precisely because a lot of things in life are done much better by those
who do things mail for the love of it (even if many do get paid for
their efforts).

> Now the obvious thing to do is to downhload the page and remove the
> validation by hand - because 99% of asp developers won't do any serverside
> validation.

Not obvious to most people! Heck even I probably wouldn't bother looking
at the source these days.

> Anyway I plan to contact the council more formally complaining about this
> gross oversight - I mean in all the time I have been using and working on
> the internet - never have I found a page so poorly thought out to use
> vbscript validation. There is only one place to use vbscript and that is
> to detect plugins in internet explorer because it is so lame and doesn't
> support javascript properly.
>
> yours disgruntledly,

Since most councils are implementing eGovernment schemes at the moment,
you could try turning it to your advantage, explain clearly and in words
councillors and pointy haired bosses can understand how you would do it
better if they gave you the job of webmaster.

It might not work, but in todays competitive job market it is always
worth a shot at being different, if you can find the right person to
send it to, and demonstrate some awareness of eGovernment plans and how
the current effort falls short.

> Aaron - still wondering why a cornish boy should bother getting a degree
> when all cornwall has to offer is waiting tables for minimum wage in a
> hotel or cleaning hospitals. What point in having a university in cornwall
> if there are no jibs for graduates within 100 miles ?

Part of going to University is to discover the world is bigger than
Cornwall I'm sure. Cleaning hospitals is worthwhile work, we could
probably do with more of it, but I don't think that is where your
talents would be best used.
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