I'm an independent developer with a long-time client looking for a backup plan in the event of the dreaded "bus scenario" (i.e. I'm taken out by a bus, leaving them holding a CD of code they have no idea what to do with).
Their immediate concern is to have an outside source take a tour of our codebase, docs, and server setup and declare "yes, if you handed this project to someone like me, I could study it, get up to speed, and continue to develop this code." It's not an audit or quality review (though I am open to a critique), they mainly just want to know that someone can keep them running and is not going to tell them to start over. Eventually we'll be shopping for a company or a few individuals to bring into the development process (I'm coding solo so far). Realistically that won't happen until last half of 2010. I'd like to meet with two or three people to find the best personality and skill fit for the client. me: http://www.gregwillits.ws client: http://www.gregwillits.ws/web_development/youthinsight project: This review is heavy on Ruby and lighter on Rails. The Youth Insight code has two distinguishable areas: a pure Ruby data aggregation system (fairly complex), and a simple Rails site with the primary purpose of showing data, though it has an extensive user management system of my own creation. Spend a day, maybe two, with me going over the code, the documentation, and our server setup. Assess the degree of difficulty in understanding the code's functionality and organization, the difficultty for an experienced Ruby/Rails developer to pick up and continue to develop the code, and provide some feedback as to what you would want to have at the ready to make taking over development as easy as possible. We're using Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 2.3, MySQL 5, OS X Server. Ping me if you're interested (email link on my web site), and I'll provide more details. I'll also be coming to the SDRuby meeting Dec 3rd. Thanks for opening the email list to these types of posts (I hope it wasn't too long). -- greg willits -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
