The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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Not really a trade secretMore a way of making things easier!
We provide an electronic product reference tool for our biggest client: basically an ActionScript Flash app compiled to an EXE. We used to farm this project out to a freelancer who knew nothing about OOP and created a big, fat, bloated application that was frankly shite. Any minor update would literally take the freelancer hours to implement.
Until I was asked to redo it. Now the data is held inside the app as a multi-dimensional array and, as such, is very easy to update. One minor change is as simple as changing a bit of code. And, the way I've written it, updates to the app take very little time at all. So the turnaround is quicker and the client is deliriously happier and I got a loverly new Mac Pro as a thank you.
We still charge the client the same amount of moolah for it though, as much as we used to when it would take over a week for any updates! But they can afford it...
(, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 15:15, Reply)
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