Foreign Perspectives

Don’t you just hate it when there’s some daft validation check applied to what you want to enter in a form?

Despite many years of crazy assumptions being made by programmers and analysts, they still happen.

France, as always, heads the list though. It’s impossible to enter the date you got your driving license if it was before you were 18 as that’s the earliest you can get it in France. Applying for a job? Well, you’ll need a reference number to do it that you can’t get until after you’ve got a job!

In a similar category there’s the seemingly pathetic software testing that’s done these days. The reason why there haven’t been any posts from PayPerPost here lately is because they’ve updated their software and it’s not currently possible to submit entries to them! I suspect that the advertisers are having problems with them too as whilst it’s normally 200+ opportunities to select from, there’s only about 100 on at the moment.