Re: touchscreen kiosk updating and billing

Perhaps it sounds strange, but:

The higher hour rate of a programmer, the cheaper he is.

Meaning:
A good coder works way faster than a bad one.
He also has a huge toolbox with code to re-use.
He makes his projects in a way they are easy to alter.
(eg standard behaviours that do not have to be modified to perform another action)
And if he's a nice guy, he gives you the open code with good documentation so you could make these changes yourself.

From what you describe, your coder is not a good one. It's of course impossible for me to judge this, there are always two sides of a story. But doing the entire project from scratch sounds like a 4 hour job to me. (That is, 1.5 hour coding/testing, 2.5 hour talking with the client, make changes and other stuff).

Do you have the open .dir files? If so, i would like to see them.



Bouke

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