Spel Chekc is gud

In my current job, I inherited some seriously bad apps...I mean these are the apps that inspire users to espouse the evils of Lotus Notes. Honestly, if you aren't familiar with Notes and you come into a company and get stuck using one of these apps, it will make you biased. Which is sad, because Notes is very powerful and can do some really great stuff, but in the hands of a rogue developer....{shudder}

I try to make my apps as user friendly as possible - one of my "heros" in the Notes Dev world is Chris Blatnick over at Interface Matters. He's done some really cool stuff.

So back to these applications..... as I go through having to fix them (not only are they ugly to look at but the code has some scary stuff going on) I started to notice the typos.

Now at first I thought well, English wasn't the first language of the previous developer ...but I noticed it wasn't phonetic spelling, (as if trying to sound out the word) and the same word would be spelled correctly else where in the app - often in the same area...now, we're all prone to typos, I mean I get typing and the brain goes faster than the fingers...but I'm inclined to ..oh I don't know.....PROOF READ or USE SPELL CHECK !?.... so I could only conclude one thing.... this guy was lazy! So now I was inspired... time to write a quick app to track the typos!
(Yes, I like to write apps to track things....)

Here are some gems (first two with screen captures to give you an idea of what I mean):

Comemnts

ReprotSelection


Commanly Purcahsed Items (this is the title to a form)
Descriptin
Erro Message
Inforamton
LocastionCode
LocationByPaygrpup
NOTES UAER INFORMATION
ReuqestDate
Temination Record
ThyApproval (I guess this means divine approval)
Tremination List
Select Exiting Company
Spetember
Serach
Plase (please)
Approval Profile Change Tacker
IT Purchse
Person Reuqesting
Please make required changed to the letter and save it (this was in a field text description)

...and there are many more......these were found in field names, form names, and user facing text... bah.... who needs spell checkers!!!!