On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:49 PM, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote:
> Convince them of what? That pencil and paper or a simple wireframe > app isn't good enough? > It may be in first world countries, but not exactly in countries that have experienced 30 years of civil war. > It's been my experience clients want to see your past work and talk to > your references. They care not for how fast you can scaffold an app > together at Starbucks. > Well, it has been my experience that in first world countries that seems to be the case. Not quite in third world countries. There are quite a lot of cases where the client does not care to know about what you have done before, but about what you are going to develop for them. I have had several cases where they were not that impressed with what we had done before, but when we showed them a quick prototype with a quick touch of graphical user interface, then they were actually all excited about it. It's funny, but it does happen. We just have to learn to adapt. > Yup. Assuming everyone uses the same thing is an obvious mistake to > anyone giving it more than a moment's thought. > > I can only imagine how many times "Works on MySQL, ship it!" has > probably been declared at 37signals. If you think about it, MySQL is a sort of de facto standard for web applications. All the best, Fidel. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
