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Location: Portland, OR Languages: Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP Frameworks: Rails, Sinatra, HTML::Mason, CakePHP, jQuery, ExtJS, and more! Likes: Research, education, science, the arts Dislikes: Shopping carts, startups, real estate Availability: Projects only, no hourly commitments Contact: jason@bithive.net I work full time as an open source web application developer and system administrator in higher education. I am interested in custom application development for schools, nonprofits, and small businesses, especially those working in research, education, or the arts. I can also help you implement open source single signon for web applications and UNIX systems.
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Avenging Dentist posted:Yeah, Google sure is a site written in PHP with a MySQL backend, like basically everyone here is posting as their "experience". you're the one posting like all web apps are brochures. either you're stupid or pretending to be stupid, get the gently caress out
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Mar 15, 2010 21:06
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You don't say it, but it sounds like you need someone to write a custom module for use with Drupal's webform module? I've never worked with Drupal before but I've written a lot of PHP/LDAP glue scripts, so I could probably bang this out over the weekend. My contact info is already in the thread.
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May 4, 2010 21:08
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JMilton posted:We've already spent well over 50 hours researching the potential market and probably another 50 hours assembling a business model; it's not unreasonable for us to want to protect these things, and our NDA literally specifies what we're protecting--it's not some bog standard, open source NDA. It's just until lately we never dealt with anything software related, even though we're a software company. Sounds nuts but don't you wonder why you're paid so much? It's because to most people it's a crazy moon language that works by magic. No offense but a programmer might spend 50 hours just researching and pulling together all the tooling he'll need to do one iteration of your project. If he's lacking the thousands of hours of applied practice that it takes to be a good developer then it will take a lot longer and each iteration will go more slowly to boot. It may seem like magic moon language but I assure you it's like any other creative process, except more highly constrained. Everyone understands that a movie represents the director's creative decision making and the work of dozens or hundreds of people off-screen. However, few non-developers can appreciate the kinds of decision-making a programmer has to do when translating specifications into software. Every client that's ever come to me with speculative work always thinks their idea is well-developed and just needs someone to wave their ten little magic wands and through some kind of clerical key-mashing, transform it into a product. They always try to woo me with promises of equity and even ownership of the code, ignoring that the code is worthless without a profitable business behind it. I have learned to refuse this type of work even if the ideas are good because invariably this type of inexperienced client never has the will or resources to bring their design documents up to snuff. They want to skip that and save money by hiring rockstar coders to jump in the deep end, but their own ignorance gets the better of them since coders who fancy themselves rockstars and are willing to work on speculation are probably the inexperienced type that burn out after iterating themselves into a corner (and rewriting things that were ambiguous in the original design). A few months later I'll see the same job ads, except with "Our offshore developer didn't pan out, so we're looking for rockstars!" Novo fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jan 21, 2012 |
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Jan 21, 2012 01:19
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JMilton posted:Thanks for this. Good insight. What does "well-developed" mean exactly?
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Jan 21, 2012 01:57
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JMilton posted:Bastards! Thank you though, to Cicero. I was using bro ironically there, don't worry. I'm sure there is stuff out there but I'd just be googling for you. The main point is as others have said you are approaching this from the wrong angle, you are acting like you're in the "hand over design, receive code" phase when you should be preparing to do another design iteration with your actual developers so you can get a feel for how designs become code. If this were your promotional website I would say find a scrappy agency whose work you like and let them have at it, but this is your baby and babies are expensive. You can't cheat the learning process, this is why good developers are paid well and hard to find as you observe.
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Jan 21, 2012 02:11
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BonoMan posted:Do you mind explaining "why?" I'll pass it on to our team that posts our job descriptions to maybe they can fine tune their descriptions. When the spirit of first two sentences of a job ad are contradictory, it's less a matter of fine tuning and more a matter of being coherent. Good programmers like coherence and are professionally pedantic. This is a good thing. When I read an incoherent job ad my brain goes into auto-skip mode. If you think this is "sperging" then please don't change your ad.
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Jun 14, 2012 00:04
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The problem with SEO is all the real experts are going to be at least $150/hour and their work will be subject to the perpetual arms race that is search engines vs SEO experts, meaning you'll see very little return on that investment unless it's an ongoing thing you're doing. My advice for a small business would be to certainly make sure your site is crawlable by search spiders but don't waste money on SEO voodoo.
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