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jcnlv · 06-20-2005, 12:53 PM

I was afraid this would happen when I saw Trevor was offering this product to the adult community. It is really a shame.

Yeah Trevor IS a good guy, and he IS a great and very fast programmer - but the name "manic" productions says it all. He did not name his company that by accident. He means well, but his brain is going in so many directions at once that he has a hard time ever finishing projects, and getting him to provide support for them is a total hit or miss proposition depending on his current state of mind.

I am sure I have been his biggest client for the last 4 years. He has done all of my programming and system administration. I have paid him many 10's of thousands of dollars for custom programming and server administration and he really does know his stuff. However most of what I have paid him to do has recently all been replaced or soon will.

He makes programs that do amazing things -- but in a business where reliability is so important and where everything is so dynamic and constantly in a state of change, I prefer something less amazing and more reliable and predictable.

He has two problems, finishing a job, and then being available to fix them when they break. (and unfortunately it seems something breaks, making the program totally unworkable about every other time that PHP, Msql, or Zend, does updates.) Then you sit with nothing working. If you are lucky, Trevor responds quickly and you are back in business within hours or minutes... however if he is off somewhere -- on a "tangent".... good luck, They used to only be for a few days, but the last two years there have been times when he didn't respond by ICQ, Email, or phone for more than a month -- often while I pleaded that he get things to work again. My Email, ICQ collection of communications is something for a book.

It has cost my business dearly, but I always went back to him. Yes he is a nice guy... but mainly because nobody else can/will pickup his work!... So you have a big investment and you are told it needs to be redone from scratch, for 10's of thousands more) everyone tells me he doesn't code in normal ways... and that figures... because he is not a normal guy -- which I think probably is what makes him such a great programmer -- and he is a great, super knowledgeable person to talk about everything the world is about -- but for now anyhow, I don't think he is someone you should be involved with in huge projects that will/may require long term and uninterrupted support - or that you ever expect to have all the original features fully implemented and finished.

I still have love for this guy. He has a very supportive wife and new son and I hope he is able to find an answer for his conditions for all concerned. I had really hoped that he would do very well with the Komply software, and that it might be the impetus to get him on track. But from posts I read on different boards it is looking like instead it might take him the other way.

JC

06-20-2005, 12:53 PM
jcnlv Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 55	I was afraid this would happen when I saw Trevor was offering this product to the adult community. It is really a shame. Yeah Trevor IS a good guy, and he IS a great and very fast programmer - but the name "manic" productions says it all. He did not name his company that by accident. He means well, but his brain is going in so many directions at once that he has a hard time ever finishing projects, and getting him to provide support for them is a total hit or miss proposition depending on his current state of mind. I am sure I have been his biggest client for the last 4 years. He has done all of my programming and system administration. I have paid him many 10's of thousands of dollars for custom programming and server administration and he really does know his stuff. However most of what I have paid him to do has recently all been replaced or soon will. He makes programs that do amazing things -- but in a business where reliability is so important and where everything is so dynamic and constantly in a state of change, I prefer something less amazing and more reliable and predictable. He has two problems, finishing a job, and then being available to fix them when they break. (and unfortunately it seems something breaks, making the program totally unworkable about every other time that PHP, Msql, or Zend, does updates.) Then you sit with nothing working. If you are lucky, Trevor responds quickly and you are back in business within hours or minutes... however if he is off somewhere -- on a "tangent".... good luck, They used to only be for a few days, but the last two years there have been times when he didn't respond by ICQ, Email, or phone for more than a month -- often while I pleaded that he get things to work again. My Email, ICQ collection of communications is something for a book. It has cost my business dearly, but I always went back to him. Yes he is a nice guy... but mainly because nobody else can/will pickup his work!... So you have a big investment and you are told it needs to be redone from scratch, for 10's of thousands more) everyone tells me he doesn't code in normal ways... and that figures... because he is not a normal guy -- which I think probably is what makes him such a great programmer -- and he is a great, super knowledgeable person to talk about everything the world is about -- but for now anyhow, I don't think he is someone you should be involved with in huge projects that will/may require long term and uninterrupted support - or that you ever expect to have all the original features fully implemented and finished. I still have love for this guy. He has a very supportive wife and new son and I hope he is able to find an answer for his conditions for all concerned. I had really hoped that he would do very well with the Komply software, and that it might be the impetus to get him on track. But from posts I read on different boards it is looking like instead it might take him the other way. JC __________________ SIG TOO BIG! Maximum 120x60 button and no more than 3 text lines of DEFAULT SIZE and COLOR. Unless your sig is for a GFY top banner sponsor, then you may use a 624x80 instead of a 120x60.