{"id":6,"date":"2006-02-22T11:31:15","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smilingdogapps.com\/wordpress\/?p=6"},"modified":"2006-02-22T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T16:31:15","slug":"adding-features-for-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/22\/adding-features-for-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding features for customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">I started writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/\">a personal information manager<\/a> written in Java back in 1999.\u00a0 Over the years, I\u2019ve gotten lots of suggestions about cool features to add in; features that one person thought would be the cat\u2019s pajamas.\u00a0 For instance, my best man thought it would be really hot to add the ability to pop off an email to anyone in the list.\u00a0 So, I added <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/html\/help.html#sendingEmailWizard\">a wizard to send email<\/a> to any group within the contacts using any field in the contact list.\u00a0 Then a customer told me that it would be a state of the art personal database if you could change the field names dynamically.\u00a0 He wanted to use it for his business and had some special fields that identified clients.\u00a0 Then another customer groused that \u201cnot everyone lives in the states\u201d meaning that the address fields weren\u2019t right for his international contact list.\u00a0 So, I added the ability to change the field names, which also makes it easy to turn the PIM into another language, well except that the help page is still in English. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\">What I found interesting is that after finishing these new features, some of which are pretty time-consuming, the customers are not always so enthusiastic.\u00a0 Sure, they use the new features but then they come up with other new features right away or imply that the feature isn\u2019t exactly the same as they envisioned.\u00a0 So you bust your ass and get a mediocre thanks in return if you\u2019re lucky.\u00a0 Excellent!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started writing a personal information manager written in Java back in 1999.\u00a0 Over the years, I\u2019ve gotten lots of suggestions about cool features to add in; features that one person thought would be the cat\u2019s pajamas.\u00a0 For instance, my best man thought it would be really hot to add the ability to pop off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shareware-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sdapps.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}