Taking Aware for granted...

BenHayat

As we get too involved in day to day Aware development, we tend to take Aware's power for granted, until you come across tools that you may have to work on (for some client), and you realize how much power is built into Aware for us and are not available outside of Aware.

For example a case I ran into yesterday, when it comes to using READ PROTECT in a multi tenant app and how much power this function offers us, where as if you had to built the underlying structure in another system to do what it does for you. That's just ONE example of that.

Just wanted to share my story and say thank you to "Aware Team".

customaware

I'm with you Ben and could never take it for granted.

Every time I do something in Aware and then think, what would it take for me to do this for the web in Magic....
.... my head voice goes... yeah, right! that was never gunna happen.

My 4 year Aware Anniversary comes on the 2nd July and I wish it had been 10 years.

BenHayat

eagles9999 wrote
I'm with you Ben and could never take it for granted.

Every time I do something in Aware and then think, what would it take for me to do this for the web in Magic....
.... my head voice goes... yeah, right! that was never gunna happen.

My 4 year Aware Anniversary comes on the 2nd July and I wish it had been 10 years.

Yesterday, I was asked to outline a multi tenant app architecture in front of several Software Engineers and one of the most important part was, how to isolate each organization cleanly and safely, when they all live in the same DB. Then I had to explain to them the concept of READ PROTECT (not by name, but what it does) that they need to build in ASP.Net. I'm then laughing inside and trying to tell them, let me do it in Aware, it will take 1/10th of the cost and time.

Today, I found out, I was declined of the job, because "Ben is over qualified and we're not sure we can keep him challenged". 🙁

mrbdrm

BenHayat wrote
Today, I found out, I was declined of the job, because "Ben is over qualified and we're not sure we can keep him challenged". 🙁

Are they for real? :?

BenHayat

mrbdrm wrote
BenHayat wrote
Today, I found out, I was declined of the job, because "Ben is over qualified and we're not sure we can keep him challenged". 🙁

Are they for real? :?

My resume shows how many different projects and jobs I've done in the past 30 years. Then they ask me, "Tell us, what you bring to the table". I listed, what I can do to add value to their company.

They then asked how I'd go about designing a SaaS app, and I showed briefly, how to get started.

Then, any questions I asked, about how they do their current software development, I got no answer.

At the end (an hour and half later) the VP, gets up and shakes my hand and thanks me for coming, but never says anything, what the next step would be. So I asked... "What's the next step?", he says, he will have a meeting with his team and makes a decision the next day and will inform the recruiting company. I said, fair enough and thanked him and left.
Next day (Friday) comes, and by noon I didn't hear nothing. Sent an email to my agent and he calls me back, that the client thinks "You're over qualified and they're not sure if you stay there long enough".

So you asked, "Are they real?", and that is the exact question and confusion I've had since yesterday.

There was a job that they wanted me to work on setting up an Azure and I told them I didn't have experience in Azure and I was declined of the job, and I understood it perfectly and moved on.

But as my parents always told me "Everything happens for a good reason". 😃

kklosson

I never take AwareIM for granted...

aware_support

Thank you very much for your support! We never take our customers for granted either.

hpl123

Yeah, Aware is really a RAD platform and it´s amazing how productive one can be in Aware and I agree, it´s easy to take that for granted and it becomes VERY apparent when working on other projects using other platforms, libraries, frameworks 🙂. BIG Thanks Awaresoft for the great product and continued awesomeness we see as new versions are released.