Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer

2022-12-14 Thread Cary Gordon
Voice-to-text on Mac (Pages) and IOS is amazing. I use it in English and French. Cary On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 5:53 AM Hammer, Erich F wrote: > Charles, > > Out of curiosity, what happened with your look into getting an older > version of DNS on Ebay? Those were in the $20-$50 range for an >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer

2022-12-12 Thread David Bass
r 10, 2022 at 2:27 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer Thank you Jackie, Erich, Mark Jon, Deborah and all others! 2 projects I’ve got on the back burner. 1 – since I can’t find any voice-to-text software other than DNS ($500) and don’t wish to use the Wi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer

2022-12-12 Thread Fitchett, Deborah
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer

2022-12-12 Thread Andrew Nagy
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer

2022-12-12 Thread Anne Slaughter
Burr Ridge Office Phone: 630-734-5127 Fax: 630.734.5050 anne.slaugh...@railslibraries.info https://www.railslibraries.info -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of charles meyer Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2022 4:29 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer

2022-12-12 Thread Hammer, Erich F
Charles, Out of curiosity, what happened with your look into getting an older version of DNS on Ebay? Those were in the $20-$50 range for an older-but-Win10/11-compatible version. Erich On Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:11, Charles Meyer eloquently inscribed: > Hi Joe, > > For

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer

2022-12-11 Thread Joe Hourclé
> > On Dec 11, 2022, at 4:07 PM, charles meyer wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > For voice-to-text software, who have you purchased a license from where > you've been happy with their software? I don’t use it, personally. I grew up playing MUDs and worked as a programmer, so I type rather fast. I had

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer

2022-12-11 Thread charles meyer
Hi Joe, For voice-to-text software, who have you purchased a license from where you've been happy with their software? Thank you. Charles. Date:Sat, 10 Dec 2022 22:47:18 -0500 From:Joe Hourclé Subject: Re: Hiring a programmer You’re asking for someone to recreate something that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer

2022-12-10 Thread Brian Wu
1. I agree with Joe. The amount of work you would be looking for, even assuming a scenario where no maintenance is needed, would be *at least* in the 4 digits. If you require a user interface, even more on the time and money spent. I will say, there are open source programming

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer

2022-12-10 Thread Joe Hourclé
> > On Dec 10, 2022, at 5:27 PM, charles meyer wrote: > > Thank you Jackie, Erich, Mark Jon, Deborah and all others! > > 2 projects I’ve got on the back burner. > > 1 – since I can’t find any voice-to-text software other than DNS ($500) and > don’t wish to use the Windows/Word voice-to-text

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer

2022-12-10 Thread charles meyer
Thank you Jackie, Erich, Mark Jon, Deborah and all others! 2 projects I’ve got on the back burner. 1 – since I can’t find any voice-to-text software other than DNS ($500) and don’t wish to use the Windows/Word voice-to-text or Google options, which others have used (not just Googled but

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer or coder

2022-12-07 Thread Fitchett, Deborah
We've occasionally hired a programmer to develop extra functionality for existing (open source) software. I've always known them by reputation so haven't had to do a search for someone. I'd definitely agree with what others have said about needing to maintain the software. So as part of the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer or coder

2022-12-07 Thread Mark Pernotto
Hello Charles, Thanks for this question. As a professional programmer, I concur with our colleagues' assessment of hiring contract development work. I have not worked with anyone from Fiverr before, but I can't tell you how many contract jobs I've taken over, following a programmer from a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer or coder

2022-12-07 Thread Hammer, Erich F
Charles, As an academic institution, we have access to grad students and have occasionally hired them (with both excellent and terrible results) for this kind of work. I can't make a suggestion as to who where to get programming assistance, but I do want to point out a very important fact to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring a programmer or coder

2022-12-06 Thread Jackie Keith
Charles, I have former students who wrote programs for my school/library and they have a business. What type of thing do you need to have done? Jackie Keith infopro...@gmail.com On Tue, Dec 6, 2022 at 8:42 PM charles meyer wrote: > My esteemed liamtates, > > I was curious if you oir your