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Nightwork · 12-19-2003, 11:07 AM

AcidMax,

At the moment we're making an inventory of the functionality wishes and planning our future infrastructure. We probably will develop it part in-house, part outsourced, but if there's a decent system on the market which meets my programming standards I surely will consider the option.

But it's a fact that the quality of the work of a lot so called "professionals" out there sucks. No OOP, lousy software architecture (html mixed with code, no database layer: most software is written for a specific dbase, I believe that the choice of dbase is up to the customer, not the programmer and this can easily be tackled by using the adodb class for instance which gives support for most common dbases and can be used by simply changing one config var. etc, etc, crappy or no documentation).

About the typo. Of course such a mistake is human and can always happen. But I'm serious that I take such things into consideration when I have to choose a partner. Besides the fact that the mistype itself is pretty harmless, it can be an indication of the workprocess a company uses. It ain't an explicit indicication of programming skillz, but to me it is an indication of how a company works, which is actually more important to me.

In the past I've worked with a party that had a bunch of the best programmers I've ever worked with. The code they delivered was close to perfection, but the thing was that it was ready 1,5 year after the initial deadline, half of the described functionality was missing, technical support wasn't available when needed, etc, etc.

I think that content publishing should be: writing -> checking by a second person -> publishing and a third person that checks the site content every now and than to see if the content isn't outdated / still correct. A company which has a site (a site is pretty often the first impression you get from a company) that is up-to-date and bugfree makes a much, much better impression on me than I company that has mistakes on their site. It makes me wonder how good their skillz are, if they can't even manage to have their own site bugfree.

And ofcourse you may think this is bs. But I've met more people who use such small details as selection criteria while picking partners/products/whatever.

12-19-2003, 11:07 AM
Nightwork Registered User Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 61	AcidMax, At the moment we're making an inventory of the functionality wishes and planning our future infrastructure. We probably will develop it part in-house, part outsourced, but if there's a decent system on the market which meets my programming standards I surely will consider the option. But it's a fact that the quality of the work of a lot so called "professionals" out there sucks. No OOP, lousy software architecture (html mixed with code, no database layer: most software is written for a specific dbase, I believe that the choice of dbase is up to the customer, not the programmer and this can easily be tackled by using the adodb class for instance which gives support for most common dbases and can be used by simply changing one config var. etc, etc, crappy or no documentation). About the typo. Of course such a mistake is human and can always happen. But I'm serious that I take such things into consideration when I have to choose a partner. Besides the fact that the mistype itself is pretty harmless, it can be an indication of the workprocess a company uses. It ain't an explicit indicication of programming skillz, but to me it is an indication of how a company works, which is actually more important to me. In the past I've worked with a party that had a bunch of the best programmers I've ever worked with. The code they delivered was close to perfection, but the thing was that it was ready 1,5 year after the initial deadline, half of the described functionality was missing, technical support wasn't available when needed, etc, etc. I think that content publishing should be: writing -> checking by a second person -> publishing and a third person that checks the site content every now and than to see if the content isn't outdated / still correct. A company which has a site (a site is pretty often the first impression you get from a company) that is up-to-date and bugfree makes a much, much better impression on me than I company that has mistakes on their site. It makes me wonder how good their skillz are, if they can't even manage to have their own site bugfree. And ofcourse you may think this is bs. But I've met more people who use such small details as selection criteria while picking partners/products/whatever. __________________ God may have created the world in 6 days, but you can bet your ass that while he rested on the 7th, a programmer coded it all.<br>ICQ:48322442