[AccessD] Names or numbers?

Hi Gustav:

I will look around and see if I have a copy of the standards document,
remove any direct references to the government and it can then be uploaded.
It is actually only a few pages long.

It was not that the lack of a signature lost the contract, because the
contractor was well known to the contract review group...it was just a silly
over-sight, that could have been easily rectified. It was that virtually
anything could have lost a contractor's application bid, or any contractor,
even though the contractor in question was a very competent applicant. My
main issue was that competence and capability was not being used as the
primary decision guide.

Jim

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 2:06 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Names or numbers?


Hi Jim

> I had the pleasure of writing a document on how a reference document could
> be written. It was later accepted as a standard. From that day on, all
> fonts, weight, indentation of any application manuals had to adhere the
> standard. All submissions were marked up or down by compliance.

> That process goes doubly for coding. Every table, view, stored procedure
> field, key and foreign key name must comply. So many lines of explanation
> for every piece of code and so on.

Sounds like a decent piece of work! Could it be (revised and) brought
to the dba site as a guide? I mean, not (necessarily) a guide to
follow, but to how such a guide could look and what you need to
specify?

> There are many good companies, with good developers out there. If one does
> not what to comply there is no point in bidding on a contract. I have
> witnessed a perspective contractor, with an otherwise, perfect bid loss a
> contract on just a missed signature.

What are you telling here? No signature, no contract - but why did the
signature miss?

/gustav

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