Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Tue May 25 08:29:48 CDT 2004
Hi Stuart well, you and several contributors to this thread - with Arthur and Scott as the bright exceptions - should join a club of weeping school girls. Now come on and get professional as is the general attitude of our fellow listers. If you design an app wrongly, you'll of course have to fix it; if some standard is changed, say postal codes for a country goes from x to y format and you couldn't know, the client has to pay. If your app is out in big numbers, you would offer an update. Since when has distributing an update been a problem? /gustav > On 25 May 2004 at 7:45, Scott Marcus wrote: >> >> Someone else mentioned not limiting fields to 2 letters for state >> abbreviations. Why not? When the abbreviations jump to 3 letters, I'll >> make the field bigger. That's just part of my job. >> > And who pays for that work to be done? > Do you stick the client with a bill for a modification that > shouldn't have been needed or do you wear the cost of the time > yourself. > What if you've got the same app rolled out in lot's of different > places. It can get quite expensive to provide updates to all the > sites.