download star trek movie online I had previously ranted about google code from the perspective of a user. Turns out, users have it easy compared to project owners/administrators. Google code is, without a shadow of a doubt, the worst online application I have ever seen from Google. It isn’t just bad by Google standards, it’s bad by any standard. In any sane company, the people responsible for delivering such an abysmal product would be taken out back and shot in the face, just to save humanity from the risk of them ever doing anything again.
Where does one start? Lets look at the cool new downloads feature they added once they realised how useless their shitty little python jizz is. So hosted projects can now offer downloads to users, all is good and well. These downloads however come with some interesting restrictions.
For example, if you want to update a download, you can’t. Fair enough, you’d delete it and then upload a new version, we can live with that. Oh wait, except you can’t do that either. You know why? Because there’s no delete functionality. That’s right, no delete functionality. So if you accidentally uploaded ‘Sistas Fucking ApacheCocksuckersUpTheAss With BigBlackDildos-DivX-preview.avi’ (and it has to be preview I’m afraid, given the 20mb uploade size limit and the 100mb cap on your file space), you’re basically, well, fucked.
You’re not just fucked in the lost storage space wtf do I do now you cunts, but you’re actually fucked in the oh shit now everyone knows that I like seeing pot bellied hairy apache fucks taking it up the ass from muscled black women sense. See. not only is it not possible to delete uploads, it’s also not possible to archive them from end users. Anyone could just choose to see ‘deprecated’ downloads, which is about as ‘hidden’ as you can make things.
This dovetails nicely into the clusterfuck that is download tagging. The administrative menu is, to put it as kindly as possible, whimsical. Menu items and options are scattered about like goat pebbleturds on a mountain. The only option under ‘Advanced’ is ‘Delete this project’. How is that advanced functionality? If you go to administer (as an aside, what English language guru decided to choose a verb for a menu item when all the others are nouns?) then downloads, you’re presented with what amounts to gibberish.
I kid you not, you are shown a list of tags, and at the bottom, it says ‘Each download may have at most one label with each of these prefixes:’. What prefixes? What downloads? What the fuck are these labels for and what do I do with them? Maybe I’m particularly retarded, but I honestly have tried very hard to decipher this page, and still have no idea what the purpose of it is, or what I can achieve by using it. The wiki and other admin pages also have this cryptic tagging mechanism, which clearly requires someone far more qualified than mere project admins to decipher.
Google code’s project hosting can be a poster child for anyone who ever wanted to justify assigning a project manager to a project. It’s a clear example of the inmates running the asylum, where the developers spent all their time on useless shit that happened to sexually gratify their sick sick fetishes, which happened to basically shit all over real users from a great great height. Who gives a flying fuck about your clever svn backend? Your UI still looks like ass, and I still have no extra features over any other shithead who gives me svn access. The webapp behaves in a way that one would expect 1998 era webapps to behave. The validation is childish and immature, and is easy to con into allowing you to enter invalid project values. Google is lucky that it’s such a useless and trivial app that it hasn’t been noticed by more malicious people, but I can honestly say that I dont know of any company where any application, internal or external, can be so shit and remain so shit for so long without anyone trying to fix it. Delivering a rushed project with many bugs and missing features is one thing, remaining that state a year on is a level of incompetence and idiocy that’s usually unacceptable in the real world. Those poor fuckers wouldn’t last a day if they had a real job in a real company.
