On 11/1/07, Mike Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All that aside... I was a bit taken aback by Brian's earlier comment to > the effect of "use whatever the client wants."
My personal experience has been, that even if the client has their own in house expertise, they still manage to choose the worst IDE. Due diligence consists of a check list of features from which a decision is made. To me that's rubbish, you need to actually evaluate the product. But the fact they are shelving out hideous amounts of money for useless products gives the corporate jelly fish management types the belief they are buying quality for their project. Which it doesn't, quality is what your developers produce. The reality is that the well worn path of failure is being trod once again. So let me get my plug in @ WAS and RAD now. In my mind the build process and project structure should be tool > agnostic. HERE HERE!!! The voice of reason. As it has doth be been stated in the sacred texts of lore from McConnell, Hunt & Thomas, et al 'You must be able to checkout your project from the repo, build and test in a reliable and consistent fashion'. Its such a fundamental concept I am still astonished some development teams completely forgo it. How many development shops take this to heart, though? Some espouse to such ideal's, yet in reality neglect this or have a process that is flimsy and error prone. [1] Of course only programmers are capable of, with malice aforethought, > writing English sentence with nested parens... > -- > mike morris :: mikro2nd (at) gmail (dot) com > > http://mikro2nd.net/ > http://mikro2nd.net/blog/planb/ > http://mikro2nd.net/blog/mike/ > > -- A day without chillies is a day wasted -- > > > > > -- If you have something tough, give it to the Americans. If you have something difficult, give it to the Indians. If you have something impossible, give it to the Russians --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum For the ctjug home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
