Murphy’s Law and Demos
September 25th, 2008I was giving a demo to a company today. The following sequence of events happened:
- Webex froze my computer, not once, not twice, but three times – requiring full reboots. (It seems it doesn’t work well with dual monitors)
- Construction knocked out my cable – which I use for phone and Internet
- I called back in on my cell phone and my call dropped
Sometimes it is just not your day.
September 25th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Rough! Then again, you’re not a real programmer until you’ve had a disastrous demo
September 25th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
haha, bad luck.
September 25th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Damn! Always at the worst point in time .. reminds me of when I was demoing an information-management plugin for Lotus Notes that allowed us to do “mashups”. The entire management committee of the organisation watched as an unavailable web site reduced my machine to a crawl and Lotus Notes died a horrible death.
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September 26th, 2008 at 2:29 am
Well
I think I am the client that experienced the intermittent demo. If I was not convinced of the quality fo the product, the result will have been desastrous.
You should always have a backup when making a demo to a user. Can be a set of powerpoint slides, or another virtual meeting provider connection, etc.
If I was not used of working with USA companies, it could have frightened me …
Anyway, thank you for fighting against the e-elements.
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