dustinmoorenet
Joined 12 years ago
Joined 12 years ago
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Ordoro is an all-in-one ecommerce logistics platform. We holistically solve common back-office issues online sellers encounter — shipping label printing, multichannel inventory management, automated dropshipping, returns processing, and reordering — through an intuitive web app.
I guess the point of view is leftist because it takes into account the worker's welfare. That doesn't seem like a bad side to be on...
* It was over 20 years old by the time I started
* It was written in Fortran
* Variable names were single and double digits
* Each fortran program would run in isolation but had a shared memory process
* It was formally a terminal program but a weird Java frontend was created so everything looked like Windows GUI
* All program names were four letter acronyms
* All data was stored in fixed width binary "flat" files
* It previously was under CVS version control, but each install slowly drifted apart, so each site had it own unique features and bugs.
* I once had to move a significant feature from one install to another using only patch files generated from the work done on the original install.