>Hello
>I would appreciate your opinion about the following questions
>thank you in advance
>my best regards
>Luis Martin
>
>1.when a person develop a custom software application , is usual that they ask for your
>resume?

No. If it is a vertical market application it does not matter.

>is it different in thea case of a software company?
>

If it is for a company then it helps to have a list of customers that you have had. See below how I did that.


>2. when The customer are beginning from scratch to have application in their company ,
>they are interested in what language a professional or software company person will
>developer de the software, havinf in mind that tehy only will have the .exe files?
>


Some companies have IT departments and may have requirements as to what software development languages they will allow. This can make it difficult for the programmer if the tools you use are not the same as the company standards require. If the company does not have a standard then they may have to purchase a copy of the tools you use or have consultants assist them when required or you will be the person that they will go to when needed.

If you are a consultant working for a company you should have a requirements document to define what the customer wants and have them sign it. State that any changes to this document will have to be negotiated and what your hourly rate is. You may start with a simple application that suddenly becomes all things to all people. This is common and is called “Scope Creep”! You can also negotiate if the company will own the source code or just the exe.


I was an electronics engineer in Silicon Valley until early 1990 (age 47), when electronics manufacturing left our area and we had 60,000 unemployed electronics engineers. Being married with two children in grammar school required me to find employment in a field that would allow me to pay the bills.

I have been programming since 1981 so I began to learn more about the field. Now for some of my experiences:

To find a job working for a company I had to have a resume. So I began by writing software for the Diocese of San Jose as my children attended Catholic School. I then wrote software for a professional group of unemployed engineers through the state of California, to help them find work. I started my first full time programming job and worked for several months and then went into consulting. Consulting was great but the market changed and I went to work for a large company.

Computer User Groups help you to network. You will find job leads and support. If you do not have such a group perhaps you could start one? At any rate you should try to associate with other programmers.



>3.When a person is almost 40 nas have only a bit of experience , less than 2 years. they
>can expect having a future in the software industry ,as a professional or having a
>software company ?

With hard work and study you can do it. Learn all that you can. Create a list of what you want to do such as create a simple project to:

1. Add
2. Edit
3. Delete
4. Print

You can create your own class library to do these things or use a professional application framework.

Good luck

Tom