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  • P Pete OHanlon

    keencomputer wrote:

    Where Do I start?

    By talking to your users. Whenever you are required to develop a software system, you really should start off by listening to your users and gathering requirements from them. If you ignore your users, you might as well stuff live porcupines down your trousers - it will feel roughly the same.

    I have CDO, it's OCD with the letters in the right order; just as they ruddy well should be

    Forgive your enemies - it messes with their heads

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    Paul Conrad
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    Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

    If you ignore your users, you might as well stuff live porcupines down your trousers

    :laugh:

    Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

    listening to your users and gathering requirements from them

    I second listening/communicating with the client to get the client requirements and build what they need, and not what one thinks they need.

    "The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham

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    • T Tom Delany

      Actually, banks credit money to your account because your deposits end up on the Liability side of their ledgers (i.e. it's not their asset). He has it right.

      WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.

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      Roger Wright
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      I know that - but most users (and companies) will be sitting on the other side of the teller's window.

      Will Rogers never met me.

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      • C Corporal Agarn

        PogoboyKramer wrote:

        since March

        Dang I cannot remember what happened this morning!

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        fjdiewornncalwe
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        It sounded familiar, so I looked through his message history and "There it was"

        I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.

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        • T Tom Delany

          Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

          Sometimes, when dealing with those who don't listen, porcupines are the only sane solution.

          Maybe just a wee hedgehog instead? :)

          WE ARE DYSLEXIC OF BORG. Refutance is systile. Your a$$ will be laminated. There are 10 kinds of people in the world: People who know binary and people who don't.

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          fjdiewornncalwe
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          After watching a National Geo special on flesh eating fish of the amazon yesterday, maybe a little catfish will do.

          I wasn't, now I am, then I won't be anymore.

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          • K keencomputer

            I have to design double entry accounting systems as part of the package, Where Do I start?

            Tapas Shome System Software Engineer Keen Computer Solutions 1408 Erin Street Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3E 2S8 http://www.keencomputer.com www.ias-research.com/blog

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            Mark_Wallace
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            keencomputer wrote:

            I have to design double entry accounting systems as part of the package, Where Do I start?

            With the first one. Then you copy and paste to make the second.

            I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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            • S Single Step Debugger

              Listen to what John C told you, if you have a choice never ever start this, you will need to support this application forever. Make an export to existing account system. I have quite a lot of experience with creating enterprise software and I know that even the big software companies avoid doing this. And what is your background in the accounting? Because if you don’t have any, even if you/your company hire a professional accountant to consult you the project probably will be a disaster anyway. Edit: Oh, I forgot; a new-baked homemade accounting system is very likely to put your client into legal problems.

              The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.

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              Mark_Wallace
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              Deyan Georgiev wrote:

              you will need to support this application forever

              um... How is that a bad thing?

              Think annual revenue.

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