I plan to start a small company with a friend and we are trying to work out how to price for people that want to outsource to us for PHP, Python, (My|Postgre)SQL, HTML/CSS JS and SEO. Assuming that there is no fixed going rate that we can find, how should we work out what to charge per hour? ...
There are clients of mine who are content with their VB6 and SQL 2000 applications that I have written them many moons ago. The applications run fine, require some maintenance, some bug fixes from time to time but really run OK for the client. There is no reason in their mind to upgrade (or have my rewrite these in the current version...
hi, lately I've been asked to do a UI or UX audit and to be honest I truly don't know how to charge people for this... The story is that I've used some portal X and I've started complaining about how unfriendly it is and they asked me to do a full audit for them... so I did... It took me 8h of writing a doc about what things are good an...
I'm in the position of inheriting a number of small (between 5 to 20 hr) jobs which largely involve providing fixes and changes to existing systems on a contract basis. I've never done the self-contracting thing before - all my previous wages were set by the customer / employer. How do I decide how much to charge? I don't want to under-...
Hi, do the mobile phones have an API function or something like that which could be called by a phone application to figure out whether the phone is currently charging or is on battery? I guess that if there is such a function at all, it would have a different name on each mobile OS, so if anybody could name those function names and the...
At our company we charge by the hour, which is actually broken down into 6 min chunks. At the end of the day you end up recording 8 HRS, 8.1 HRS (i.e., 8 HRS 6 min), etc. to a task, where the task is allocated a certain number of HRS. In our group we typically develop analytical code for a customer, and then perform some analysis. ...
Hi. From reading discussions I understood that Apple will not approve an App that asks the user to enter his credit card number. Is that correct? Is there any way around it? Thanks- Nir. ...
How do you charge your customer in a project using agile methodology? Per hour? Then a great deal of trust has to been established before the project. Per iteration? There's gonna be a lot of budget decisions, which can take time. Per project? How can you do that when you don't know the scope? The very essence of agile is to not wr...
Context: iPhone is connected to the PC via cable and power indicated 100% ( the icon of the batter contains a small power plug also) Question: In this stage the phone is powered directly from USB or is it using the battery ? Thanks ...
Hi, is it possible to distribute an App via the App Store for free, in which You can only log in if you are using an extern charged Service ...
I have developed a WordPress plugin and I got an e-mail from a person who needs some customizations. He asks for an hourly rate, but I'm used to charge per work, not per hours. The customization will be integrated into the plugin for everyone else to use, since its GPL code. But it's a customization I wasn't planning to develop, so I sh...
I ask this question because so many times i build a website then i have to spend sometimes as much time i took building the website, modifying code so it works in ie. it takes a long time because at present debugging tools for ie are appalling. definatley not up to the standard of firebug. in a few years gone, if i was to create a flash...