Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Jan 3 14:58:10 CST 2011
When doing a new .Net, in my case, all have been ASP.Net application, I quickly boiler-plate the site together, go in a cleanup all the junk the coder leaves behind and lastly I do not give fixed estimates...not on a fully programmed sites. MS makes web code that is not always compatible with other browsers and tends to send code that should be running at the client end off to the server. All this fixing can take time. Some sites that have thousands of lines of code and may only take weeks to do but then some strange anomoly can hold me up for about a week on 50 lines of code. The big plus in all this is that I now have a hundred or so routines built in JQuery/Javascript. One day I may tackle a real .Net desktop application but not until I have enough snippets and samples of fully tested code. Right now very few of my clients are upgrading to desktop apps as the costs are little over the top and web apps are so much more versitile. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Dan Waters Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 11:22 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ded Moroz sends you links on sample projects... :) I used to always believe that I could do something in much less time that it actually took me. Then I started to really drill down to see how much time a project would take. Lately I've adding 30% to my best estimate, which helps me get closer to actual time. If a change is needed, I estimate that too, no matter how small. So what I've been doing is over-estimating, to compensate for my over-optimisim! Dan -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 8:00 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Ded Moroz sends you links on sample projects... :) LOL, all projects are predominantly over time and budget. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 1/3/2011 8:43 AM, Mark Simms wrote: >> 10000% :) > Shamil - Why then are the predominance of dot-net projects over-time and > over-budget ? > You must the exception !! > > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com