I still can't wrap my head around consultants who don't know where application programs come from.
Perhaps I described my work to those group members very opaquely or exceptionally poorly. I'd like to think not.
Or perhaps they were all looking in my previous explanation for a 10+ person team with a methodology like Scrum or Agile and the idea of one contracted developer creating an application was outside their bandwidth of experience.
I remember saying in a posting, "The client gives me his business or technical needs, we negotiate a feature set, and then I design and write a Windows application. Usually using C++ plus third party libraries."
The list participant was like this was an epiphany, that nothing I had said up to that point was making any sense.
I believe that some individuals in our midst as computer people can be so "smart" and looking so much for a subtext or an overall meaning or so caught up in high level discussions that they can't exercise common sense or deal with a concrete instance or just deal with the words in front of them. It's not a very common communication problem but it happens.
It was enjoyable reading Jerry's take on what I would post - he had no apparent qualms about understanding where someone else was coming from. But, he's Jerry, he's world class, and he has few pretenses. The rest of the list seemed prideful about being self consciously smart, so discussions didn't seem to flow that well. So a lot of this was the group, I think.
