On 6/28/07, MB Software Solutions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We're just messin' with ya. Don't take us seriously. We certainly don't!
> The difference between us (besides many more stripes on your > sleeves due to you being longer in the tooth than I am <g>) I think that's yesterday lunch I dribbled on my sleeve... Hmmm, mustard. > is that you > attract the good client's who'll pay your $xxx/hr rates.....in my > depressed economical areas, there's no way there's 3 digits after that > dollar sign. Yeah. right. I gave up an international guru practice in VFP and became just another novice LAMP coder for the money, fame and glory. (More like blame and gory.) There's a glut of LAMP developers out there and they offer double-minimum wage rates, since they just got out of school (college, high or grade) and live at home with Mom. They were raised on this stuff, code faster (but buggier) than I do, stay up for days at a time, and will take a job for $200 fixed to establish a reputation. And let's not even start on offshoring! My rates didn't exactly skyrocket when I chose to work out of a state with more moose and bear than people. But I am loving it, 'cause software development is what I do, and Open Source lets me do it better. The interesting thing is that the problems we run into are very similar, whether it's VFP or PHP, PostgreSQL or DBFs, milling machines or mailing machines. Communicating with the clients, properly setting expectations, educating them about the software development process, helping them to figure out their *real* requirements, estimating the projects, working out the user interactions, designing the data model -- all that stuff is pretty similar. The big differences are whether you terminate or continue a line with a semi-colon, and whether you need to PACK or VACUUM the database. Sorry if we touched a nerve, MB. Sometimes we play a little rough. But to get back on topic: "Bidding for jobs based upon the number of tables involved:" No, don't do that. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
