Counterintuitive or counterproductive?
Do you ever get that feeling where a piece of software seems to make your life as a developer harder instead of easier? Well, I do but I'm not sure whether it's the software or me.
I've worked with an open source content management system written in PHP for close to 6 years. In that timeframe, I got to know the little beast inside out. I knew the strong points of the product but more importantly I also knew the weak points and how to avoid/circumvent them. Anything I do with it just works and if it doesn't I soon enough find out it was caused by a mistake on my part.
The new content management system is some commercial software written in .NET. I haven't figured out why, but I seem to be in a constant fight with the software. I can't have it working perfectly for 2 days straight. I do something, it fails... I finally get it working again and less than a day later it breaks again. Perhaps it's the software, perhaps it's me but I'm certainly not used to working with such flaky software. All I know is that it's pretty frustrating at the moment.