payment-schemas

Is there any working bonuses-schema for developers?

Any suggestion how financial bonuses for developers should be calculated. It seems to be easy -- take things like: effectiveness/performance, code quality/bugs count, experience, teamwork, engagement, Over hours, some others. and count some score. But we all know (i.e. http://gojko.net/2008/08/07/paying-programmers-are-bonuses-bad-a...

Working for percentage of project

Hey fellas, Ive been asked to develop a project for a percentage of the project. To sum it up, its a web crawler mash-up type deal. I fear that it may fall through in the end of course. This will be my first team project not among friends and I wonder two things; What percentage if I'm the only developer is fair? If I were to a...

Building Licensing server for per-seat licensing model - database design and payment aspects

Hi, sorry for lengthy post, and thanks in advance for reading through it. I am developing software that should use licensing model which is I believe similar to per-seat licensing: There is a central licensing server, which approves/denies licenses Central server allows customers to purchase certain number of licenses at any given mo...