Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.java.programmer > #10381

Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question

Show all headers | View raw

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:00:28 +0000, Novice wrote:

> An earlier example of paid code was a Java applet that I did as a
> subcontract for a friend a while back. He had written a Lotus Notes
> application and wanted an applet to do graphing of performance
> characteristics of the customer's products. That Lotus Notes page was
> gone the last time I went to the website several years ago so the applet
> is also presumably long gone, replaced by something else. I didn't sign
> an NDA as far as I recall but the friend who gave me the contract may
> have. I can find out easily enough but the applet would be pretty crude
> by any modern standards even if the NDA wasn't an issue. I hadn't been
> coding Java long and Swing wasn't even out yet so it is in AWT. (I later
> made a Swing version but it's never been run outside of my IDE.)
>
That sounds like a reasonable starting point. Being willing and able to 
explain why you were dissatisfied enough with the AWT version to create 
the Swing version and why it is an improvement sounds like a good plot to 
me.

However, I'd strongly suggest that you don't mention the crash because 
IMO losing anything in a disk crash shows a certain carelessness. Here 
I'm assuming that you now have an adequate backup scheme that is used 
regularly and rigorously and that, preferably, you also are familiar with 
and use a source version control system for any code you care about. Can 
you explain your backup and version control strategy if asked?


> If unpaid work can constitute a reasonable example - and I personally
> think it should - I did one decent Java application and a servlet for a
> friend for an NGO he was involved in for free, strictly out of interest
> in doing it. However, he left the organization shortly after that and
> they abandoned the work I'd done when he left. I didn't sign an NDA for
> that work but I'm not sure if I should feel free to show the code to
> someone else. That's assuming I didn't lose that code in the crash.
>
Same comments as above.
 

-- 
martin@   | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org       |

Back to comp.lang.java.programmer | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Two More Very General Consulting Question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2011-11-30 21:00 +0000
  Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-11-30 21:45 +0000
    Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2011-11-30 23:00 +0000
      Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-12-01 03:06 +0000
        Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Novice <novice@example..com> - 2011-12-06 15:24 +0000
          Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-12-06 20:59 +0000
      Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-07 05:45 -0800
        Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-07 18:58 +0000
          Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-07 18:57 -0500
            Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-12-07 20:33 -0400
              Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-08 16:04 +0000
                Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-12-09 06:53 -0400
                Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-09 12:51 +0000
                Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@telia.com> - 2011-12-09 17:26 +0100
                Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-12-09 23:12 +0000
                Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-10 12:00 +0000
                Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-10 19:53 +0000
                Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-11 00:04 +0000
                Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-12-10 20:12 +0000
                Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2011-12-12 03:05 -0700
                Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-12-12 06:39 -0400
            Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-12-07 20:55 -0600
              Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-12-09 10:42 +0000
        Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-07 18:48 -0500
    Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-07 05:43 -0800
  Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-12-02 20:15 -0500
  Re: Two More Very General Consulting Question Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-12-06 16:45 -0800

csiph-web