WANTED: PHP coder!

[Mistress]

Looking for some PHP specialist who will be able to help to modify and/or write some scripts. ICQ below. TIA

[Mikey_219Inc]

ive emailed my programmer, the best. period.

Mikey

[itsofts]

Hey, I can help with some serious php and database work for dirt cheap.

[developer]

Originally posted by itsofts
Hey, I can help with some serious php and database work for dirt cheap.

Dont work for peanuts man.....

[Babaganoosh]

Originally posted by developer


Dont work for peanuts man.....

Programmers with no self-respect crack me up. If they don't believe in the quality of their work enough to charge accordingly, why would anyone want to hire them?

[SMG]

I got this project. The guy totally fucked me, made a deal, $100 for the project he wanted, thought itll take 2-3 days (which it would) ... he ended up fucking with me making me change stuff (like agreeing on php/mysql, then I do it, then he says nah I want text database ... does this 2x and other things) ... all to end up with nothing, I wasted 9 days on the project and was never paid. This guy is a scam, and he owns taboomoney.com so don't ever think of using it as a sponsor, he'll prob fuck you there too.

[SetTheWorldonFire]

I know 2 very good ones, top notch.

big projects need 50% upfront and anything under $200 needs to be paid before project is started.

I vouch for these guys np

[Mistress]

Originally posted by lil2rich4u2
we only hear one side of story, but based on that id say its fucked up

Hello People,
here it comes, my side of the story!



Its WHOLE thingy started from post i made here:WANTED: PHP coder!

This guy replied by ICQ on 25th of October, he seemed to me a nice guy and everything seemed to start working fine. I showed him my current picpost located here:
Mistress PicPost

and asked him just to redo it in PHP because i think PHP is faster, and you dont need to hassle with all those permissions and stuff...

Plus I explained him that, (the major reason i wanted to redo it) , I need "better" admin because my current admin does not update picpost without resubmitting again

Guy said that its Ok. That he has tgp module and he will be using it.

I am not programmer myself, I said "ok, but you gotta show me it" from time to time, because i dont want you to do UNnecessary stuff or be gone TOO FAR and then UNdo it. He said ok.

We both agreed on price, that was $100.

I was glad because for this price I was expecting it to be done in 1-2 days maximum, because guy sounded like "knowledgeable person" but i did not know how i was mistaken...


1.
Guy started to whine that he was ripped off by 2 webmasters from Canada - by one 4 days ago, by another one - 5 days ago. He made a work for them and they did not pay.

2.
He asked me to pay him $10 ahead, so this way he will work faster

I said "Come on, dude, is that a deposit or what? lol".

He said that "because store closes in 30 mins and he wants to buy some food". That way if he eats some food, he will be more efficient to work under my project and going to finish it "even today"


...to be honest I was little bit surprised by this, but i understand that we all have "problems" and btw $10? whats to talk about?

Phew... of course i sent him those $10...but for what... for food?

3.
I told him that I dont want MySQL. I had no luck with it whatsoever. I am not comfortable with it and would like to have things simple and have DBs to be done in text file (exactly like i have on my current PicPost and many other scripts having them (text DB) including AGP PRO.

I personally have mysql on my server, some sites are running using it, but i dont see why should i have it if similar script like current PicPost not using it

Then this dude, started to push me, his client. Saying things like "I dont understand why you DO NOT want to use it? its great! Its fast!" and stuff like that...

...so after HOURS OF ARGUING about MySQL i gave up...


4.
Then guy did not appear during a day time for another 5-6 days. On 5th or 6th day I CAUGHT HIM at approx 12 AM and asked him regular "Hello, how are things going?"

He said something like "I am working on backend DBs"

I said "ok, can you show me anything? just anything? Because i dont want you to do UNnecessary work?"

He said his usual "Not yet, later!"

Then in 1-2 AM approximately I bugged him again "ok, can you show me anything? just anything?"

He replied "Eating"

Then in couple of hours his ICQ status became Offline, not even UNavailable, and i went to bed.


5.
On the next day I asked him "Why he ALWAYS is not available during a day time?"

We are in same time zone, besides we are in same state.
And guess what did he tell me?

He said that he is hiding from his landlord...And dont want his landlord to see him during a day...


6.
Finally, on 2nd of November guy showed me submit page for my future PicPost

I tried to test form, but found some bugs:

- it did not give any error messages if some fields were left blank
- it just refreshed form and clear all fields

I asked him to place an Error messages on second page like i have on my current picpost submit page.So whatever field is empty it will create Error on second page.

He added them on top of submit form.

I asked him to make error messages on second page again.

He said "NO!"

I said what do you mean NO? My current picpost works this way...Is it a problem to do?

He started to pull some like "You did not want it!". I said "You never asked for it", and besides I asked him to do picpost like i have now...

...with same messages, same everything, just modify admin area soit will update picpost without resubmitting again

...and I asked him to show me what he's got every damn hour, and only on 9th day he showed me submit page

We started to argue and broke up our conversation.

7.
But thats not all, i came back to him, i knew guy did "some" work, spent some time...,I really did not want to hurt his feelings...So I came back...

We fixed thOSE submit page Errors (i guessed to implement it in html, like its on current picpost) made a preview page.
Everything was working fine until he showed me admin config page...

...Before like I said, I asked guy to improve admin, so it willupdate picpost without resubmitting again and fix Email and Domain blacklisting...Thats all!

He did HELL OF THE CONFIG that i DID NOT ORDER, with features that i DID NOT WANT...

At first glance I liked, but it had SO MANY features, so it was TOO COMPLEX and I wanted half of them in config.php and another one on templates with extension .tpl. I asked the guy to do it...

He said something like "Err,No!

I wanted to change EMAIL and DOMAIN feature to be working ONE PER LINE. I asked the guy to do it...

He said something like "No! If I will put it on templates it will cost more!


So i decided not to pay the guy untill he will do like i asked him to.

We agreed NOT to ARGUE about script before, but i dont think it will work out this way!



Well OUTCOME is:


- PRO did $100 script, having a module or whatever, for long 9 days of my time, wasting my time making me sit and wait for him;

- guy appeared during night time only because of his landlord;

- he did completely different work (admin) and inconvenient for me, absolutely different that i have now and than I asked;

- he is absolutely not listening the client, "doing his own job" kinda guy, then when he finally "made it" without showing me, every my wish to change this or that feature turned out to be NO! and then ARGUING

- now this guy like a cocky linatic screaming all over boards

PS.Now, I ended up to screw guy's future because like he said, he got NOTICE OF EVICTION that night when he showed me first element of his 9-day-work and his future depends on that $100



I do really want to know what are you all thinking about this?

[TheViper]

Originally posted by Mistress

Hello People,
here it comes, my side of the story!



Its WHOLE thingy started from post i made here:WANTED: PHP coder!

This guy replied by ICQ on 25th of October, he seemed to me a nice guy and everything seemed to start working fine. I showed him my current picpost located here:
Mistress PicPost

and asked him just to redo it in PHP because i think PHP is faster, and you dont need to hassle with all those permissions and stuff...

Plus I explained him that, (the major reason i wanted to redo it) , I need "better" admin because my current admin does not update picpost without resubmitting again

Guy said that its Ok. That he has tgp module and he will be using it.

I am not programmer myself, I said "ok, but you gotta show me it" from time to time, because i dont want you to do UNnecessary stuff or be gone TOO FAR and then UNdo it. He said ok.

We both agreed on price, that was $100.

I was glad because for this price I was expecting it to be done in 1-2 days maximum, because guy sounded like "knowledgeable person" but i did not know how i was mistaken...


1.
Guy started to whine that he was ripped off by 2 webmasters from Canada - by one 4 days ago, by another one - 5 days ago. He made a work for them and they did not pay.

2.
He asked me to pay him $10 ahead, so this way he will work faster

I said "Come on, dude, is that a deposit or what? lol".

He said that "because store closes in 30 mins and he wants to buy some food". That way if he eats some food, he will be more efficient to work under my project and going to finish it "even today"


...to be honest I was little bit surprised by this, but i understand that we all have "problems" and btw $10? whats to talk about?

Phew... of course i sent him those $10...but for what... for food?

3.
I told him that I dont want MySQL. I had no luck with it whatsoever. I am not comfortable with it and would like to have things simple and have DBs to be done in text file (exactly like i have on my current PicPost and many other scripts having them (text DB) including AGP PRO.

I personally have mysql on my server, some sites are running using it, but i dont see why should i have it if similar script like current PicPost not using it

Then this dude, started to push me, his client. Saying things like "I dont understand why you DO NOT want to use it? its great! Its fast!" and stuff like that...

...so after HOURS OF ARGUING about MySQL i gave up...


4.
Then guy did not appear during a day time for another 5-6 days. On 5th or 6th day I CAUGHT HIM at approx 12 AM and asked him regular "Hello, how are things going?"

He said something like "I am working on backend DBs"

I said "ok, can you show me anything? just anything? Because i dont want you to do UNnecessary work?"

He said his usual "Not yet, later!"

Then in 1-2 AM approximately I bugged him again "ok, can you show me anything? just anything?"

He replied "Eating"

Then in couple of hours his ICQ status became Offline, not even UNavailable, and i went to bed.


5.
On the next day I asked him "Why he ALWAYS is not available during a day time?"

We are in same time zone, besides we are in same state.
And guess what did he tell me?

He said that he is hiding from his landlord...And dont want his landlord to see him during a day...


6.
Finally, on 2nd of November guy showed me submit page for my future PicPost

I tried to test form, but found some bugs:

- it did not give any error messages if some fields were left blank
- it just refreshed form and clear all fields

I asked him to place an Error messages on second page like i have on my current picpost submit page.So whatever field is empty it will create Error on second page.

He added them on top of submit form.

I asked him to make error messages on second page again.

He said "NO!"

I said what do you mean NO? My current picpost works this way...Is it a problem to do?

He started to pull some like "You did not want it!". I said "You never asked for it", and besides I asked him to do picpost like i have now...

...with same messages, same everything, just modify admin area soit will update picpost without resubmitting again

...and I asked him to show me what he's got every damn hour, and only on 9th day he showed me submit page

We started to argue and broke up our conversation.

7.
But thats not all, i came back to him, i knew guy did "some" work, spent some time...,I really did not want to hurt his feelings...So I came back...

We fixed thOSE submit page Errors (i guessed to implement it in html, like its on current picpost) made a preview page.
Everything was working fine until he showed me admin config page...

...Before like I said, I asked guy to improve admin, so it willupdate picpost without resubmitting again and fix Email and Domain blacklisting...Thats all!

He did HELL OF THE CONFIG that i DID NOT ORDER, with features that i DID NOT WANT...

At first glance I liked, but it had SO MANY features, so it was TOO COMPLEX and I wanted half of them in config.php and another one on templates with extension .tpl. I asked the guy to do it...

He said something like "Err,No!

I wanted to change EMAIL and DOMAIN feature to be working ONE PER LINE. I asked the guy to do it...

He said something like "No! If I will put it on templates it will cost more!


So i decided not to pay the guy untill he will do like i asked him to.

We agreed NOT to ARGUE about script before, but i dont think it will work out this way!



Well OUTCOME is:


- PRO did $100 script, having a module or whatever, for long 9 days of my time, wasting my time making me sit and wait for him;

- guy appeared during night time only because of his landlord;

- he did completely different work (admin) and inconvenient for me, absolutely different that i have now and than I asked;

- he is absolutely not listening the client, "doing his own job" kinda guy, then when he finally "made it" without showing me, every my wish to change this or that feature turned out to be NO! and then ARGUING

- now this guy like a cocky linatic screaming all over boards

PS.Now, I ended up to screw guy's future because like he said, he got NOTICE OF EVICTION that night when he showed me first element of his 9-day-work and his future depends on that $100



I do really want to know what are you all thinking about this?

OMG that thing about the $10 for the food cracks me up LOLOLOL

[SMG]

half of that is bs, and this isnt even where I posted the full story - however if anyone wants, ICQ me: 63540 110 I'll send you logs.

[SMG]

Originally posted by TheViper


OMG that thing about the $10 for the food cracks me up LOLOLOL

lol, what mistress didnt know is that was a lie ... I was beginning not to trust the fucker, wanted to see if it would pay anything and that was my way of doing it.

[Mistress]

hmm, i told you it was a scam from the beginning

[OzMan84]

hey people, i know this may sound dumb but im new to this so im going to ask anyways......i need some to make me a php script for like free or ill palce an advert to them on my site

[xxxoutsourcing]

We can help

[OzMan84]

you champion. give me a buzz on this email adress as i dont have ICQ as of yet. i need pretty much the php file that updates every hour, and shows the date of each gallry when it appears sorta thing an shows a max of like 70 sites at any one time


the email address to contact me on: [email protected]

[Weber]

I can help you...
ICQ 111833551

[kosmic]

www.tdscripts.com

good guy, great programmer.

[Tippy]

I'd list my project here and have coders submit bids, you can then review their history and select which one you wish to work with www.ScriptLance.com

Expect quick responces as well to your job posting as emails are sent out instantly to coders who have the type of experience needed to complete your job.

[SMG]

I don't see why this topic gets so much attention - FYI mistress came back to me a day ago asking to finish this, with an agenda posted ... 2 days after posting here that someone else did it

and tippy - I actually do use scriptlance. And if you smart you wouldve posted that with a referral URL

[Tippy]

Nothing smart about that, I posted the link to help, not to make $... I'm poor and intend on remaining that way for the duration of my life...

[itsofts]

quote:
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Originally posted by developer


Dont work for peanuts man.....
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Originally posted by Armed & Hammered

Programmers with no self-respect crack me up. If they don't believe in the quality of their work enough to charge accordingly, why would anyone want to hire them?

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I want to correct Armed & Hammered here on something:
1) I don't work for peanuts
2) The reason I can afford to offer dirt cheap rate compare to industry (US) because I have a facility in Vietnam. Therefore, the cost of living is very low there and because of that I can offer low rate. But for me to personally do the work then my rate is very high, and you may be surprise. My last consulting for CIBC was over $100 per hour for 40hours a week for 2 years.

So don't make any judgement on someone if you don't know jack about them.

[fuzebox]

Err... still looking for programmers?

[Mistress]

nope, thanks

[Mistress]

i am now again looking...

[crax2k]

Well... write me a PM or ICQ, or post a file on a webpage, telling me exactly what you would like to be made...

This story is about the funniest I've ever read on this forum, so let's give it a try

/Crax

[crax2k]

well... just catch me on ICQ... I'm online most of the day (and night)...

49820662

/Crax