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It's just a non-coding colleague an myself here, but she keeps on buying these dashboard/reporting tools...you know the ones...you just give it a database connection and you can produce pretty charts and graphs in 10 minutes.  One of them was a total dead end as they decided to abandon the promise of export to html5, instead only supporting flash.  After a few dead ends now, I think I'm finally getting respect for what can be done with jQuery or even native .Net charting components.
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As often as Stackoverflow armies of moderators veto to close threads!
So that's freq or not freq?
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Our owners's are too cheap to buy any software
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If the technical team needs a tool, we ask our manager about it. If he approves it, we buy it. He's never proposed a tool to us.
The only tool we have 'passed down from the top' is our bug tracker, a hoary old home-grown data base app.
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Isn't that part of Never - I/we choose our own tools and products
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The original question "How often do you shoot down product to tool choices your manager / team lead presents to your team?" presupposes that your manager suggests tools. In my case, that doesn't happen.
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Got it.... Null Management Suggestions error.
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I can not be the last programmer out there working that is not part of a "Team". 
I don't know anymore, I just don't. I keep getting older, and they (pretty girls, programmers, etc.) just stay the same age ....
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Nope, I am all so. Very lonely being the only programmer in a small city government.
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I feel the opposite. Less distractions, fewer breaks in my concentration. Also I have "control issues" and I am not very good at compromise....
The older I get the less I understand...
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Sometimes I miss being the programming department. When you are the designer/architect, implementer and QA, the odds of bug getting through drop considerably. If, heaven forbid, one does show up, you probably know were it is before they finish explaining it. The reason I left the job was because I wrote most of the code they used and was literally going nuts due to boredom.
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I am with you. I own my company and have multiple clients through the Southeast. So, there is never enough time to get bored, between new Modification requests, new Bug reports and many clients with a slightly different version. 
Also, converting from VB6 to C#, only to discover that string handling is abysmal, and dates are truly ridiculous. 
Any proponent of C# who argues that VB6 is "much more verbose" is someone that has never used VB6.
Take responsibility for your actions and failure to act when you should. that is what everybody else has to live with. It's OK to make a mistake. It's not OK to try to cover it up.
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Our tech lead has informal discussions with team members before formally asking about tools, so there's no issue there. Management rarely suggests tools, leaving that to the tech lead and dev team.
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We can choose, as long as it's already on the "approved software list".
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I was really expecting an answer from you that keyed off of "shooting down"...
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Does management ever asked what tool / product might be helpful?
Not to mention upgrading your current tools/products to the latest version?
Or if you're using the tools you have correctly? "We" (only 1 week left of "we" ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) ) don't even use source control branching because it's "too complicated." 
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I'm likely to leave my current place soon because there are idiots "up top" constantly telling us what's best and making us switch to it.
It's ridiculous, they have no clue what we actually need and that one tool does not fit all situations.
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Marc Clifton wrote: "We" (only 1 week left of "we" [Dance] ) don't even use source control branching because it's "too complicated."
Been there, done that...
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...does the question and the smaller text below it make ANY sense?
What kind of grammar is this? Sorry, I do not understand what you want to ask here...
Especially this confuses me totally...
Quote: We you would ever buy a tool for a person using a tool without asking them about the tool is beyond me.
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The spell-checker thinks "We" is a perfictlee gud wurd.
At least they didn't use cell-phone texting syntax (LOL).
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I thought I had forgotten English after reading the question. It is something about picking a technology for a project, right?
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