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On Thursday 01 Oct 2015 13:21:48 Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> Thanks to Alan and the others for the responses... |
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> The main problem is this project is being managed by a non-tech manager |
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> who apparently thinks they know a lot more than they do, and the Boss is |
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> technically challenged, so it is easy for someone to convince him of |
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> almost anything (like, he should delegate this to a non-tech person and |
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> not involve his one tech guy)... |
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This is uncanny! Do you work in the same company as I? O_o |
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> One reason he sometimes doesn't involve me until things get to this |
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> point is because I tend to be a 'wet blanket', ruining bright shiny |
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> sales pitches with injections of reality. You'd think he'd have learned |
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> by now. The last time, about 5 years ago, the person who managed the |
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> project (different person) didn't get ownership of the source code in |
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> the contract, so we didn't get all of the source files for the Flash |
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> junk they created, then when we wanted to make some changes to the text |
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> embedded in the Flash, I had to ask them for the source files, and |
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> they wanted a bunch of money. Unbelievable. |
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> We'll see how the dev(s) respond to my questions, but I may come back |
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> here with more info and more advice if I need it. |
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I bet they will ask to point the DNS record for your domain to their own (or |
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Rackspace's) nameservers instead of your current nameservers. However, as it |
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has been commented already, the sane thing to do is develop the whole new |
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website on their own subdomain with an appropriate robots.txt file, to stop |
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spiders indexing it at this stage. Once it is ready for UAT and assuming the |
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boss approves it, they can ask *you* to point the DNS record to their |
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Rackspace nameservers. |
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This way *you* can also point it back to a holding page/mirror/new site, when |
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they no longer serve your needs. |
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> Thanks again to all, it has been a big help! |
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PS. I hope someone will show them the door if they suggest designing a new |
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Flash based web interface ... |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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