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I think about taking up bus driving in situations like that!
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How about a Web UI that control the original app? No need to worry about those buttons logic
Note: I've seen that before...
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You're over thinking this!
The video shows the user clicking a button and a new form pops up. All the button needs to do is to show the form with the exact data that the video showed. AFAIK you have the business rules right there. If you push button A, form B shows up. Take screen shots from the video and paste it on the form. They got exactly what they asked for.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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Just had a similar situation - I got a spec which was full of 'to be decided later' type comments and just brief ideas of what was wanted, so I put my quote in based on my best estimation, however once the job was in progress there was so much added, changed and not considered by the customer that it has taken a long time to unravel the spaghetti and get to the meat - I was happy to work alongside the client to give them what they want even though its taking a while (but I wont do it for nothing), but a tad of bad feeling has arisen because of what he has called my 'weak quotation' and because I didn't bring it in on budget even though I did say at the start that usually specs such as his change and I cant quote on the unknown lol. the positive is that he is happy with the quality of my work, and now we both have no real choice but to see it through on an uneasy truce, but now wants me to give more estimations on unknowns (really !!) but ive said that once this project is finished that's it for me. sorry to waffle but the moral of the story is TRUST YOUR GUT, IF YOU THINK IT WILL BE A TROUBLE JOB IT PROBABLY WILL, SO SAVE YOURSELF THE PAIN AND RUN AWAY NOW
GL
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This sucks, and this is why software projects fail!
My suggestion is simple. Create the project outline for
the screens shown, and add for each button on the screen:
For each task you have:
- Create Screen/GUI
- Backend Business Logic
- DB Design/Interface
- Testing
- Validation
- User Feedback Processing
+ Button1
- All of these items
+ Button2
- All of these items
And just keep clacking away at it. For EVERYTHING you saw in the video.
Don't forget to add time to review Printing Components, Frameworks, have
graphics built. Every CONCEIVABLE thing that could happen.
Give yourself PLENTY of time at every point.
Whatever number you come up with, use that as the low end of the estimate.
Then Double or Triple that as the high end.
Now, for every 2 weeks of time, add 25% to the project for meetings,
and another 25% for lost time in meetings, and misinformation!
When you are done, you should have a VERY LARGE range, in which you should
have plenty of time to create what they asked for.
When the customer or the PM suggests this number is too big, ask them to PROVE IT.
Even better, ask them HOW they would prove it. When they suggest "We would go through
EVERY SCREEN, and review the logic", then say "Yes, given BETTER information, I could
produce a BETTER estimate. But that is not what I was given!"
Almost all of our projects start as a PAID "Define Phase". Where we Record the meeting,
and make the user walk through all of the screens, and explain what is and is not important,
who is and is not knowledgeable about each feature, etc. etc. etc.
I have 2 new projects. One has a 40hr Define phase. Another has a 90-120 day Define phase.
Train your PM to do a better job!
BTW, if your PM complains that your number is too big, explain that if you get it done sooner,
the company makes more money! LOL
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Sounds like every project I've ever worked on.. Is this not what people have to deal with all the time?
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Movie Quote Of The Day
A web would indicate an arachnoid presence.
Which movie?
tip[^]
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Cought in Paris web : Ontop edition
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Bear Grylls Man Vs Spiderman
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FTFY
Cought in Paris web : Ontop Onatopp[^] edition
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if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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The movie "No Sh1t Sherlock"?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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If you're serving in a pub, and a lady came in and asked for a double entendre, would you give her one?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Upvoted, bookmarked and reused!
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Anyone seen this twitter account? I find it funny, annoying and for some reason still check it out once in a while. Here[^] is the link to his profile.
I like these ones: "Why doesn't my fat leave me just like everyone else?" and "Getting cremated is my last hope to get smoking hot body."
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Not even that funny...
He has a huge amount of followers and retweeters though.
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d@nish wrote: "Getting cremated is my last hope to get smoking hot body."
I prefer the fact of getting warm feet for the last time
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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...then maybe you are weird!
Yesterday evening I was just putting doing some minor edits in VS 2013, and as I was about to quit for the day, I had turned the a/c off. Suddenly, the system froze. As I have had this happen occasionally in the past, I run a CPU temperature meter on one screen, and the CPU was over 70°C at the last refresh. Power down, restart, launch VS 2013, finish my edits, save and exit.
This morning boot up, start the project, nearly all my urgentz codz had disappeared. All I had was the last part of the sub I was working on. OK, keep calm, don't panic, Aaaaaaarrrrrgggggghhh!
Run a debug - it works. Go to the designer and select a control used at the start of the class - it shows me the code. Scroll down, and the first part of the sub I was working on shows up.
Comment out a variable declaration, lots of errors showing up. Select the first error - shows me the missing code. Finally figure it out.
When the system crashed, VS managed to insert thousands and thousands of blank lines into the code. It took over five minutes to scroll down to delete the blank lines, on an i7 with 16GB ram.
I think I'll take up flipping burgers for a living.
Do you want fries with that?
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Can I get a cappuccino with mine, please?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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How do you like it, Sir? <- service with a smile!
Out of curiosity, I pulled the broken version into Notepad++, and looked at the line numbers.
Last line of code in the top part = 271
First line of code in the bottom part = 10,337
Blank lines = 10,064
Ketchup on your burger, Sir?
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My sympathies, Chris C-B, but ... doesn't it make you feel better when your scars are unique ?
cheers, Bill
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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I had a similar line issue where VS decided a 50-something line file was over 300,000 lines.
Actually, I had that happen at least a hundred times.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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That IS indeed weird. I could understand it if the system froze with the A/C ON!
With the A/C off, it shouldn't be that cold...
But if you want to be a nice guy, you could always wrap it in a blanket and boil it some hot tea...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy. Me, all the time
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