You want to demo your product asap. You will learn a lot from this. But the real trick is too listen to the feedback you get. It is natural to reject what people are telling you but record the session if you can via a screen recorder like CamStudio or even your phone. Never criticize the feedback, you'll want to encourage it as much as possible.
Give as many demos as you can. This will help you with your presentation skills.Create Videos that people can review and try to get back feedback.
Once your ready for real demos, I'd recommend scripting the entire demo and not deviate from it. This is especially true for new/under development products you're working on.
I will guarantee if you try something for the first time in a demo you'll have issues.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Securing an Excel Spreadsheet
Security is an issue if you're a software developer.
There is always a trade-off between too much security and too little. Too much and you annoy your users and too little and people have a free-for-all with your product. When it comes to securing Excel software or any software someone can always reverse engineer what you've done.
So the first thing to do is to add a password to your work. Go to the "Review" ribbon and select "Protect Workbook". Give it a nice long password to make it harder to crack. The second thing you can do is obfuscate the code. This means converting it from something that's easy to understand to something that's not. I worked on a tool to do this but never finished it.
Searching on Google brings up 192,000 entries so someone has also thought about this.
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Now you need to secure your VBA code by going to Tools - VBA Project Properties, click the Protection Tab and then click the "Lock project for viewing" and enter and confirm your password.
There is always a trade-off between too much security and too little. Too much and you annoy your users and too little and people have a free-for-all with your product. When it comes to securing Excel software or any software someone can always reverse engineer what you've done.
So the first thing to do is to add a password to your work. Go to the "Review" ribbon and select "Protect Workbook". Give it a nice long password to make it harder to crack. The second thing you can do is obfuscate the code. This means converting it from something that's easy to understand to something that's not. I worked on a tool to do this but never finished it.
Searching on Google brings up 192,000 entries so someone has also thought about this.
,
Now you need to secure your VBA code by going to Tools - VBA Project Properties, click the Protection Tab and then click the "Lock project for viewing" and enter and confirm your password.
People Needed for Time-Creator software
One thing I'll need to get Time-creator going is a person who is great at sales and believes in the product. Just like Bonnie had her Clyde; Wilbur had his Orville; Larry Page had his Sergey Brin, Lewis had his Clark; Moe had Larry and Curly; Jerry had George, Kramer and Elaine; it seems that teams do better than individuals.
If you have experience in selling software to major companies or law firms in New York. I'd like to here from you. Just to start a conversation going.
I also need people to use the product to get feedback from. If you're interest in being an alpha tester to a software product please sign up at http://Time-creator.com
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