Check out the growing set of video and text interviews with leading VB developers at the I’m A VB site. You can find my interview at Jackie VB.
I came cross this video on Antonio Chagoury.
It is one of those “Very funny, but painfully true” videos that depicts how ridiculous it would be if the same negotiating tactics used with software vendors were used in other scenarios.
How many of you deal with these tactics on a regular basis?
How do you respond to them?
While we try to be flexible and “creative”, we normally do expect to get paid not only for our time, but also our expertise. I also know how much (actually, how little) I can rely on promises of future deals and/or compensation. If potential clients can’t appreciate what we bring to the table, and how much they need to pay for it, then I don’t want them as a client…
We have just posted a very cool video showing off some of the work we have been doing with Voice Recognition.
At Renaissance, we try to allocate time for our developers to explore new tools and technologies that are not necessarily related to their current projects. This speech application is the result of one such project developed by Kim Major (http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/kim).
The video (http://www.renaissance.co.il/VSSpeech.aspx) offers a glimpse of our thinking and early implementation of extending Microsoft Visual Studio to allow programmers to write code in C# or VB.NET using mostly speech recognition. We believe that this unique approach could be a real boon for handicapped programmers, temporary suffers of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury), or programmers who just want to program while lying on the beach.
This is a work in progress and we would very much like to hear your comments and feedback either over here or at speech@renaissance.co.il.