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<DIV>Every job I have had has been maintaining and extending other peoples
code. No particular problem, so every situation has its own flavour of
coding standards and practices.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have also written my own software from scratch too, and its not so much
different – when I reopen it some years later its the same job figuring out what
the programmer was doing – only that programmer was me. Sometimes I
have almost no recollection of the particular code so it might as well be
written by someone else, or I look at it and know I would never do it that way
again...</DIV>
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<DIV>Gary’s idea of code buddy is good, and as solo programmers we already do
that for each other – although its mainly for reassurance for clients as I would
never want to have to configure his rats nest of servers, and he wouldn’t want
to learn the intricacies of legal trust accounting (including mortgage compound
interest calculations all done with integer arithmetic). So far us
old bastards just keep on going and churning out working code, and no intention
to stop (so far anyway). 20000+ lines of code in the first part of this
year I am proud of.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=leigh.wanstead@gmail.com
href="mailto:leigh.wanstead@gmail.com">Leigh Wanstead</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 4, 2014 3:16 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=delphi@listserver.123.net.nz
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DUG] Risk Management Plan</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>To be honest, it is not easy to maintain someone else's code.
Rewrite the source code will be easier than read someone else's code.
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<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV>Leigh</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On 4 December 2014 at 10:35, Cameron Hart <SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">Hi
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">You have had a lot of good
answers but no one has yet mentioned that the risk you are trying to manage is
your clients risk, not your own. It is their responsibility therefore
and it would be usual for them to “cover the cost of covering the
risk”.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">If you attempt to cover all of
your clients risks you will be using your capital (or risking your assets) to
support their business, and you will struggle to grow your own
business.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">Instead I suggest you put the
responsibility back on the client and ask them to sign up to a support plan
with regular monthly payments which can give you the confidence to employ
another developer so their risk is reduced. This is an investment by the
client in you for their own benefit.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
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</B>John C<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 3 December 2014 11:59 a.m.<BR><B>To:</B>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #17365d">Hi
all.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #17365d">One of my clients is expanding
their business (thanks to my software;-) and asked me about a Risk Management
Plan in case I would disappear, fair enough. <U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #17365d">Me, myself and I are only a
small company (as many of you might be too), so no in-house backup developers
available. <U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #17365d">Has any of you any experience
or ideas regarding a Risk Management Plan for a one man
band?<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #17365d">John
Sunshine<U></U><U></U></SPAN></P>
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