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I remember my olden days (I dint forget the 'G'  ), i was in a product dev company not doing so well. A person comes up to me and says "2 months from now we will have our demo. Start preparing".
We had to port a winform based application on a WinCe device. We developed an application in multi threading and stuff like that. After doing all of that, on the final day of the demo, we gave a presentation to an other official.
He comes up to me and says "This was not what we wanted. I cant proceed ahead with the demo".
This is when i realized, putting in so much effort in the wrong direction is of no use.
This is one of the scariest part i feel can be.
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Been there, done that. I had that happen in front of senior management because a previous boss threw me under the bus. He promised a bunch of stuff, told me to do something else. Then I give my demo.
Naturally, he was no where to be found and I was left holding the bag. 
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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I have spent much of my career developing software to meet state pr Federal government requirements. Usually, I am working at a smaller subcontractor. What scares me is doing a demo of the finished product for the customer and finding out that the specification document did not contain some crucial requirement.
In the "good ol' days," you could make the changes required, charge the government and usually get away with the "cost overrun." In today's political climate, attempting that will get you a few column inches in the local newspaper and, if you are really unlucky, an interview with an aggressive TV reporter. The legal nicety of saying that we delivered what you contracted for gets lost in the political finger-pointing. Either way, don't expect to submit a successful bid for a year or two.
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© 2009, Rex Hammock
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we had this a time ago, because of a blackout and another time water in the server room.
It aint funny 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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+1
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Microsoft ! 
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If my boss would told: me your app on Windows Phone next week.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Ha ha ... sounds scary indeed ...
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And here I was expecting YADOBF(*).
(*) Yet Another Derivative of Brainf*ck[^]
Software Zen: delete this;
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Releasing applications/updates without fully testing them
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This was the perfect reason of my downfall
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Users - having their say without question.
Code - having to maintain code written by overseas contractor: SMP !
* Sh*t My Pants
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Yep  that's correct and i would like to add one more thing:-
Developer : To take over an other module at the end to resolve bugs, having very little or no knowledge, hence increasing the number of bugs.
In this case, how do you convey this message to the management?
And, the most important thing. Your profile is wonderful, must have taken a lot of efforts. Even i want to experiment the same.
Please advice.
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I don't quite get what you mean by "experiment the same". As for the profile? It's just how my head works. By no means did I, nor would I, spend a lot of time on it.
Taking a leap at what you want - it's really just nature. Various people on and off CodeProject have their own nature and that leads them to how the do 'things' that can be done many ways. Coding does reflect quite a bit of the coder's nature.
Mine - I don't seem to have any boundaries in how my mind stores information. The cost of my last purchase of Jamaican Curry powder could be mentally adjacent to how a foreach loop is written in php. It doesn't matter - all things are part of all problem solving. There's a Latin quote for that: "If I cannot find a way I'll make one" - it's Hannible or Alexander the Great, or someone like that. That kind of view along with embracing insanity with gusto.
Look below, if you wish, to the link "Ravings en mass"
Me? - I'm heading home within the next few seconds.
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Thanks for your suggestion.
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The way they keep raising the retirement age!
If PeejayAdams ever spoke about himself in the third person, I would not vote for PeejayAdams.
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"Throw it together over the weekend quickly for a demo on Monday." they said.
"We won't release it, it's just a technology demo to show what could be done."
Yeah.
Right.
Last time, I had to maintain that POS for three damn years... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm with you on that one. I have an app that was supposed to demonstrate to the user that we could gather their data from multiple sources, ingest it and spit it back out on a webpage. New items kept getting added to it for "demonstration" purposes. It has now been in prod for 3+ years and they just keep adding to it. It's a horrible POS I have to maintain.
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Dont believe that. It will get released. 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I was young.
And stupid.
I believed my manager, and the sales department. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And especially on the day of the demo when the customer says
"This is not we wanted" 
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Oh, god. I have something similar. I'm withholding names and won't go into specifics to protect the innocent.
At a previous job, I'd been telling the boss for years something he wanted automated couldn't be automated, unless he hired somebody to maintain the automation code, pretty much as a full-time job. Basically, the process being automated was a moving target.
So one day he decided to go ahead anyway and wrote the code over a weekend. It only worked for a week. And yes, somebody had to maintain his code all the time from that point forward.
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Being told your little side project you had been working on, because you were never really sold on the current design would work.
Well they hit the wall and now your baby is it, only you aren't really sure about it either 
In vino veritas
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