The
importance of wireframing an application to allow free and frank
discussions with a potential client, cannot I think, be overstated. To
this end we use WireframeSketcher.
Potential clients generally dont care about the technology behind an
application, indeed they dont really care about the controls you use.
They just want to know how they will interact with it.
Read full blog here.
Written by Conrad Rowlands, Senior Systems Architect and Developer, DSCallards
Software matters, this much we have ascertained from an earlier blog
on ‘that car!’. I think it may be fair to draw a comparison in some
ways between something else that really does matter, relationships.
Like any relationship we should be in it for the long haul, ultimately
everybody gets much more out of the software if its not a quick ‘get it
done and boot it out of the door’ thing. There’s no feelings of guilt
about having done a half job nor the shame of being in it for the one
thing, money. In addition there is no awkward history to catch up with
you when you least expect it and no sense of the whole relationship
being just another logo on your ‘customers’ page .
Read full blog here.
Written by Conrad Rowlands, Senior Systems Architect and Developer, DSCallards
So,
You probably had it before… A client asks you to plot their addressing
data on a map of some sort. Its not an issue you tell them, make sure
that within the the data you have the appropriate latitude/longitude
data for the address and we will do the rest.. And thats where the
awkward silence starts, they haven’t got this data, they NEVER have and
data costs!
There are of course ways around this with Google maps of course being
top of the list of possible non paying solutions. I thought I’d share
my experiences of this with you…. We needed to implement an address look
up on an initial import of data using our ETL tool (SSIS). Whilst not
being major surgery this is slightly more than ten minutes work …..
Read full blog here.
Written by Conrad Rowlands, Senior Systems Architect and Developer, DSCallards
The
importance of wireframing an application to allow free and frank
discussions with a potential client, cannot I think, be overstated. To
this end we use WireframeSketcher.
Potential clients generally dont care about the technology behind an
application, indeed they dont really care about the controls you use.
They just want to know how they will interact with it.
