I have been an amateur developer for a long time. I was hooked to computers since the age of 10. I started with windows 3.1 and Qbasic. Few months, I moved to Visual Basic where I developed few applications just for fun. During this time I was always a novice, amateur developer. Two years ago, I started seriously with Dot Net for windows...
I am developing a game in which the logic is written but the visuals are not. Although the graphics are drawn, I need a way to get this graphics onto the screen to be manipulated, as well as a menu system. No one in my small three man dev team has experience with XNA and thus I am worried we will not make our intended deadline. Is the...
// Don't know if it sould be community-wiki, it's for a proffessional advice, although can be subjective depending on various experience. Recently I had opportunities to get some casual freelance gigs, but most of them were marked with the popular technology keywords (f.ex. php/mysql/ezpublish). I understood the specification of the app...
I've never bid on any freelance jobs on GetACoder, eLance, oDesk etc. I've only done sites for friends and family so I've setup the hosting and have performed any updates that we needed after the initial design myself. I know it probably varies from job-to-job, but what is the typical arrangement for hosting and subsequent maintenance ...
Here's my situation with rough numbers. I'd like to know if my thinking (at the bottom) seems sound to you guys. (Side note: I've read many of the related questions on here, and helpful as they were, none seemed to touch on this specific issue.) For 2 years I was a senior developer at Company X. I was full-time, W-2, and making $100k/yr...
Hello I'm thinking to hire an iPhone developer for creating an app for my site so the users could have a more easy navigation to it with their iPhone. If I'm not wrong, the app will be uploaded to the app store through the account of the developer. I want to ask how will I be positive that the app will have me as an owner and not have...
This question is more on the ethics scale. I have two freelance php projects that are nearly identical to the point I can copy and paste and only change a few lines of code to be done with the 2nd job. Do you find yourself charging full price for a repeat? Do you half the two projects? I can't see charging for 10 minutes of work t...
I would like to find out what steps do people take when doing a freelance job over the net with someone you have never met to make sure that they get paid in the end when they deliver the end product? The following is what I normally do: set milestones and get paid when these milestones are met obfuscate assembly if source code is not...
hey guys in the context of freelance programming (for the web), how do you calculate the cost and ownership of the source code. So, say I'm working on a project for a client, and I've worked how long the project might take, and what my hourly/project rates are going to be. Is it fair and/or normal to not include the source code as par...
To be more specific, I am working on a new DotNetNuke (DNN) portal for my client that requires custom module & skin development. Although I have previous DNN experience, I did not have custom modules and custom skin development experience. I had spend a few hours learning how to develop those modules &skins. Is it ethical to charge the c...
What is the best website to find freelance programmers? I would like to outsource an iphone application ( possibly the rest of the mobile platforms as well). Has anyone used: http://www.getafreelancer.com http://www.elance.com http://www.guru.com Thanks ...
I have been trying to win some bids at RentACoder.com, but I haven't had much success. Do you have a particular piece of copy that you use to help communicate professionalism to the clients? Is there a particular formula that you have for estimating the bidding price? ...
Hi I would like to do start freelance Software Development but I don't know where to start... The main problem I have is that I live in Melbourne, Australia while most freelance programming websites are in the US. Have you had experience freelancing? How did you get started? Are there any legal procedures you need to perform before ...
Guys, so I've started my own bodyshop/development company/freelancer-to-enterprise middlemanshipry, jumping from a freelance web development myself. Currently, I'm working on it extremely fast, going from an idea to a staff of developers and a first outside salesperson in four days—yet, I'm already feeling I'm doing some nasty mistakes ...
Greetings, I know this would be rather trivial to develop - however I have a large list of rather trivial projects which should be done so this would just be another. I do free lance work on a variety of different projects. Can anyone suggest to me an application where by I can create projects and state how many hours I worked on the...
I'm just starting out on a freelance project after several years as an employee. Currently, I'm negotiating a short contract with my first customer, and its proving to be quite difficult. Edit: I have not started any work for them yet, we are still negotiating a contract. The main problem is simply this - the client is rarely availabl...
I currently work as a PHP/MySQL programmer for a track and tracing company. I love the job and I learn more and more every day. I have a wide range of responsibilities going from programming to application support, stretching out to system administration(Linux) and networking. I already ordered a load of security related books, and the ...
I have noticed that my self-discipline is very bad when it comes to getting up in the morning, eating regularly and working on fixed hours. When you have a job to go to, it is very different since you have fixed hours. You have a everyday routine. But when you start freelancing and you do it at home, you have so much more freedom. I fin...
I recently accepted a large project which was basically making a lot of CRUD (create, read, update, delete) pages for the database of a company. The reason the project was large was, there were a lot of tables, and there were a lot of fields in each table. Envisioning that the project will take at least 10 days of work, I quoted appropr...
I have been using consultant, contractor, and freelancer interchangeably. I just started working for myself and have been wondering about how to market myself and which term to use. Am I a consultant, contractor, or freelancer? Or maybe I am all three of those. If so, which should I call myself? I have no idea but consultant just ...