CodeStore.net comments on "Yesterday Deadlines" Replies to blog "Yesterday Deadlines" on codestore.net. http://www.codestore.net/ Mon, 18 May 2009 19:35:42 -0500 Reply from Jake Ochs Mon, 18 May 2009 19:35:42 -0500 Jake Ochs If you are an independent or quasi-independent contractor, then the need to keep the customer happy at all costs above and beyond your strict profitability/pride metrics is well understood. It's an unfortunate side-effect of the (mode of) business we are in. Glad you came out of it with your humor and sanity intact. All I can say is been there ,done that and ouch!

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20090508?OpenDocument#DOC_0C2E1602 Reply from Steven Rieger Fri, 15 May 2009 16:08:40 -0500 Steven Rieger Hi Jake,

I sure would be interested in hearing what / how you did the integration of flex, php and mysql. I'm about to convert a large quickplace site to a flex front end with a mysql backend and php in the middle.

I'd love to hear the good the bad and the ugly so to speak. . .

thanks for all that you do !!!!

STeveR

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20090508?OpenDocument#DOC_FAA5E184 Reply from Stephan H. Wissel Mon, 11 May 2009 05:01:02 -0500 Stephan H. Wissel Keeping customers happy at all cost is a very slippery slope. Sometimes you have to insist on keeping agreements. There seems to be the "Enterprise idea*" floating around that empowers customers to expand scope or cut deadlines. If you give in there you *will* be taken for a ride.

Recommended reading: Getting to YES.

* Enterprise idea: "Kirk asks: how long does it take to fix. Scotty says: 6h, Kirk replies: you got 1. Scotty delivers." - works in a TV show, but kills you (you are Scotty) in real live.

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20090508?OpenDocument#DOC_D608EE2C Reply from Alejandro M Fri, 08 May 2009 15:51:14 -0500 Alejandro M Hi Jake,

Don' worry !

You make us all too much for a long time.

The time that things will accommodate, ok ?

Greetings ;)

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20090508?OpenDocument#DOC_F54527A7 Reply from harkpabst_meliantrop Fri, 08 May 2009 13:49:00 -0500 harkpabst_meliantrop Don't worry, Jake. We still love you for sure. At least I do. No, that's a bad comment. Everybody does!

Thank you for still providing us with so much valuable and entertaining info after all these years. You are a top class hero, not just because I'm a little drunk right now.

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]]> http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20090508?OpenDocument#DOC_B237EFBF Reply from Jerry Carter Fri, 08 May 2009 13:27:33 -0500 Jerry Carter I feel your pain... currently we're pressing to meet a schedule of our own - and the last few bits are proving more time consuming than I expected. Sanity still hangs by a thread though, so as long as I've got that.... *snap!*

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