konrad is good, hes done some work for me.

there you go, you get what you pay for

Hi,
Could you specify what exactly you need done? Maybe we can assist you.

Make some posts saying you want to hire a programmer long-term and as a trial task make them do that job for free. :1orglaugh

hit me up, lets chat sometime!

Masterut did some code clean up on my site and addea quite a few features. To say he actually programmed the entire site would be far from the truth. Nonetheless, pretty good guy to work with.

Can't wait to release my lastest version of MrPinks. Getting antsy.

That's beacuse you live in expensive country.

i have done projects all over the world also in India (i charged more there :thumbsup )

Ok... here is the information and contacts I have gathered and my response.

My ICQ is 360151609 and my email to use is mjmj00 at the aol

Will76 - Has some programmers used in past and they may be able to help me out
Response: I am interested in who they are and would like to discuss.

Sarettah - Likes to ask a ton of questions
Response: No thanks

Slutboat - Lots of experience hiring and firing
Response: Does me no good, what to hire 1 person to rely on

HomerSimpson - we talked on ICQ already

bl4h - made comment about needing to be a programmer to know a programmer and in philly.
Response: Are you a programmer and are you looking for work?

sheken - does some php programming work
Response: I have a project in mind that involves dedication and ability to follow through... what else can you do and can you follow through?

myneid - programmer, owns your own company
Response: $5000 retainer monthly is just way to high for not absolute 100% dedication to projects. $2500 retainer just simply doesn't get the job done with 20 hours alloted up to 40 and then employees start saying "well I can do that but will take another hour" kinda thing

masterut - we talked on ICQ and you did some updates for MrPink
Response: I need a portfolio

camperjohn64 - totally booked right now and I gues freelance programs
Response: bodydot.com in your sig has "no content here" as a site

brandonstills - a programmer and seems to be fed up looking for clients who pay in adult
Response: would like to talk

various - no idea if you take on programming jobs
Response: would like to talk

borked - programmer as well
Response: we talked a couple times on ICQ and you always were so booked, also from recollection 100 euros per hour

grumpy - minimum to charge is $75
Response - No thanks, not intersted in hearing how much money you made in India ;)

peace - knows somebody
Response - contacted you 3 times and no response to the $1200 available programmer

bluevision - does the whole shabang
Response - Do you have some references and do you outsource your programming?

At this point I would be interested in hearing from....

will76
bl4h
brandonstills
various
peace
bluevision

So that is what I have gotten out of this thread and I am looking for a reliable, ongoing programmer for many projects.

Email is best, top of post. thanks

You brag about finding cheap programmers and then complain that they suck.

:helpme:helpme:helpme

At this time and for the foreseeable future, I am not taking on any work as I am involved in partnerships and projects which require long-term exclusivity :)

For the record, I hate asking lots of questions. However, I have found that estimating a task requires an understanding of the task that goes deeper than most people think.

My way has worked for me for the past 35 years or so, but what do I know?

Like I said in the previous thread, Good Luck with that :thumbsup

I don't believe I've ever spoken to you and I certainly don't charge ?100/hr for programming - specialised services yes, but not programming. Please don't spread false information about me. :2 cents:

My take on things: some programmers take on jobs they do not like and end up regretting it.

I specialize in perl+POE doing the following; using multiple ips to get around throttles, scraping, and more.

I use HTML::TreeParser for parsing.

I know my best parser I've ever built is related to google scraping. I've got so many paths down, I can isolate anything...

Now, if you need scraping, lemme know... If your job is something else... All the best.
Jeff.

Location: Calgary, Canada.

qft

Also, @brandonstills

Don't be knocking PHP up in here... I guarantee I can write an app that will out perform any other language when run in the correct, optimized environment for virtually any task. (Notice I said virtually any task :))

First off, if you think any scripting language these days is a blocking factor to code running fast and/or efficiently... you're going to lose a LOT of credibility in my eyes.

If anything, code wise, it's some of these frameworks that show poor performance. Even Rails... I love RoR syntactically but it is a slow ass bitch when compared to other frameworks/languages! It is, IMO, the most elegant syntax on the planet and I love Ruby for it's pure OO driven syntax however... it's slooooow. RoR heads will argue that caching allows RoR apps to stay on par... sure but that doesn't leave any room to catch up with other languages when they use caching as well!

Right now the largest limiting factor is storage, specifically, relational storage. That's why NoSQL is so hot right now... When you start to take into account large scalability + social features (which require much more responsive times and larger data sets) it's no wonder everything is moving towards NoSQL!

PHP is a fantastic language and anyone that says otherwise is just ridding the elitist short bus. I am proficient in a LOT of different languages yet still prefer to write _most_ web apps in PHP for a variety of different reasons. Not the least of which is speed...

I will say though that your posts about the best developers being able to cherry pick the best and most profitable opportunities are absolutely correct! You definitely have a firm grasp on where most of the top developers sit as well as a variety of other topics, I just had a bone to pick with the whole ripping on PHP thing :)

Oh @carzygirls... didn't mean to troll your thread, best of luck in the search! I'd add my name to that list but I no longer take freelance work that isn't a huge project ($50k+). Not trying to sound elitist at all. I just have my own projects and to pull me off my passion, you've gotta rip my attention away and give me a new focus for a number of months :D

lawked whats your contact info?

just hit you up on icq

I've emailed borked a few times and never a response, guess my money is just no good :-(

icq: 127303334

huh? I've never ignored a single email...

I've never had a problem trying to get a hold of you and I wasn't even offering work :P

Most of the good coders weren't even mentioned yet.

Well shit, help the guy out and post'em up so he can find a good one!

any one looking for a coder. .. hit me on ICQ 348856909 or email me [email protected]

I can provide references. . .

I'll try again but you are probably all booked anyways.

You just said the Ruby syntax is better than PHP but it is slow. But then you say speed doesn't make a difference. I agree with you on both counts and that is what I am saying too.

My main gripe with PHP is not its execution speed. That doesn't really matter much as far as practicality is concerned. It is developer productivity. PHP feels like I'm programming in assembly language compared to other languages. It's so tedious that it takes away from the actual task at hand.

As an aside, here's a benchmark of various programming languages. Notice that PHP is at the bottom. Even more feature rich languages run faster. Notice that Ruby 1.9 is faster than PHP.

RoR has a lot of overhead but the latest version of Ruby is actually faster than PHP language to language. Check the queries RoR generates, it sometimes isn't the most efficient and you have to manually override its defaults.

But you are right, the language speed doesn't matter much, the database is typically the bottleneck. And caching makes page render times pretty much pointless.

Some of my gripes about PHP are the following:

1) Limit scope control
You can't have nested lexical scopes, it doesn't support any type of coroutines or continuations. It doesn't support dynamic scope either. If you want to automate certain things you can't put them in functions because that function can't operate in the scope that it is was executed in. So you end up having to pass variables in and out which just adds a bunch of overhead that makes it not worth even bothering. You also can't bind scope directly either.

2) No support for macros or extending the syntax of the language

3) Poor support for functional programming
arr [ sq ] map
or
arr.map &:sq

is much easier and more readable than

$new_arr = array(); foreach ($arr as $x) $new_arr[] = sq($x);
or
$new_arr = array_map(function($x) { return sq($x); }, $arr);

Ewww.

4) Poor support for meta programming
You can't write code that writes code. At least not unless you want to write a parser and compiler in PHP that uses another custom DSL. Granted there is create_function() but that is not really meta programming. That is passive code generation.
Read http://letoverlambda.com/ and http://pragprog.com/titles/ppmetr/metaprogramming-ruby to get a better idea about meta programming. The Factor programming language is probably the best at meta programming but it isn't really a mainstream language.

5) Extremely limited object model when compared to Smalltalk, Ruby, CLOS, or even Javascript. Plus the syntax sucks.

6) Inconsistent API function naming, is it $needle, $haystack or $haystack, $needle?
Is it module_fooBar, foobar, FooBar, module_foo_bar, ModuleFooBar, etc?

7) Limited architecture
Each page load starts executing a completely new environment. There is no server or application context. You can't start up the server and run a bunch of initialization code and THEN handle connections. Each connection starts fresh and you has to run the entire code again for each page load.

8) Limited syntax
Why can't I do funcThatReturnsArray()[5]? Instead I have to do:
$stupid_temp = funcThatReturnsArray()
$stupid_temp[5]

same goes for funcThatReturnsClass()->theFunc()

9) No ||= operator
Instead I have to do $foo = isset($foo) ? $foo : 5; instead of foo ||= 5

Here's a funny story that has been around for a while that hits home for me.

You use The language that fits the needs. I use mostly php for webdevelopment and i havent had any problem witch i couldnt solve with php. Choose the right softwarevfor THE job.

Hi I know you hit my ICQ. But i m traveling now. Would be best to speak on e-mail.
Can you connect via [email protected]

we have ticketing system and you can communicate with coder directly.

ty... :thumbsup

On my point of view..... Yes... A good an loyal one...is fucking hard to find