Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Tue Mar 16 21:15:47 CST 2004
On 16 Mar 2004 at 17:35, John W. Colby wrote: > And now, WE (you and I) have an application where our respective clients > say "I hate that format". I don't know what You do but I go into my sysvar > table and change a SysVar. The next time the app opens all date fields are > formatted however the client wants. > > What exactly DO you do? > I determine with my clients what format they want the date in before I give them the UI . I call my methodology "Design and Development", not "Development and Design" > To a man with a search and replace program.... > > Shall I just abandon my attempts to educate this list about what frameworks > can do? Seems a shame, but it sure appears I've wasted about 30 hours so > far. > Not at all. I can see that your framework is very useful for many things. At the same time, spending a lot of time developing automated ways to do things that you only need to do rarely and which can be done simply when they *are* needed - strikes me as overkill. -- Lexacorp Ltd http://www.lexacorp.com.pg Information Technology Consultancy, Software Development,System Support.