RE: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-07-02 Thread scott [gts]
of the exessive and downright silly things that pop up. -Original Message- From: Christian Reiniger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed On Thursday 28 June 2001 12:44, Alva Chew wrote: Thanks for the advice, what about charging by line of code? how does

RE: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-07-02 Thread scott [gts]
it's also a dangerously common misconception among non-programmer manager-types that the more important or essential a program is, the more lines of code it will require -Original Message- From: Brad Hubbard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-07-01 Thread Brad Hubbard
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001 03:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to make you feel better, lemme tell you that after more than 3ys w/ PHP I earn somewhere arround 3 ( I mean 3!) $/h in Romania so let me tell you more about geographic disadvantages :) Hi Teo, Point taken. The grass is always greener

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-07-01 Thread Brad Hubbard
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:42, Thomas Deliduka wrote: You get paid more depending on your style: If ($foo == bar) { $dofoo = fobar($foo); } else { $dofoo = foobar($bar); } Or If ($foo == bar) { $dofoo = fobar($foo); } else { $dofoo = foobar($bar); } if( $foo == bar

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-07-01 Thread ReDucTor
, 2001 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:42, Thomas Deliduka wrote: You get paid more depending on your style: If ($foo == bar) { $dofoo = fobar($foo); } else { $dofoo = foobar($bar); } Or If ($foo == bar) { $dofoo = fobar

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-07-01 Thread Brad Hubbard
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001 01:51, ReDucTor wrote: I lost half this subject whilst i format'd some one mind explaining what you are talking about with your foos, bars, foobars, dofoos, etc :) One of the original posters suggested charging by line for programming work. We were pointing out how this

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-07-01 Thread Jesse S. Williams
There's several ways to look at this too. Currently I'm doing some work for a small/home business owner. She needed some work done with some shopping cart stuff, a little MySQL DB and some smart forms. Not a lot of work, but then some of the stuff I've not worked with before. We ended up

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-06-30 Thread teo
Hi Brad! On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Brad Hubbard wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:42, Thomas Deliduka wrote: I think in general it's about $100-$150/hour for programming/database work. Yankee dollars? Gawwd... I AM being exploited due to geographic disadvantage! to make you feel better,

RE: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-06-29 Thread Chadwick, Russell
://www.toolshed51.com -Original Message- From: Alva Chew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed Hi everyone, Just don't really know where to post this, so here goes: I am working as a freelance programmer

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-06-29 Thread Julia A. Case
This varies greatly depending on where you are... For example here on Long Island I can make $60-80 / man hour, but in New York City I can make as much as $150 / man hour... It also depends on what you are doing. Hope this helps, Julia Quoting Alva Chew ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi everyone,

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-06-29 Thread Thomas Deliduka
On 6/28/2001 2:49 AM this was written: I am working as a freelance programmer. Problem is I don't really have a clue how the pricing mechanism in the industry works. I have heard calculations based on man hours and lines of code, so perhaps anyone one can tell me on the average, how much

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-06-29 Thread ~~~i LeoNid ~~
On 28 Jun 2001 02:08:20 -0700 impersonator of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (elias) planted I saw in php.general: It all depends on your experience and knowledge. You know that if you're too experienced you can save lots of research and learning time. therefore you have to estimate how much does your hour

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-06-29 Thread Christian Reiniger
On Thursday 28 June 2001 12:44, Alva Chew wrote: Thanks for the advice, what about charging by line of code? how does that apply? Don't. Lines of code are a terrible measurement. Good programmers often write code that has more functionality, is more maintainable *and* is much smaller than

[PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-06-28 Thread Alva Chew
Hi everyone, Just don't really know where to post this, so here goes: I am working as a freelance programmer. Problem is I don't really have a clue how the pricing mechanism in the industry works. I have heard calculations based on man hours and lines of code, so perhaps anyone one can tell me

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-06-28 Thread elias
It all depends on your experience and knowledge. You know that if you're too experienced you can save lots of research and learning time. therefore you have to estimate how much does your hour cost and how much are you able to do. you can start by $20/hour... Alva Chew [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PHP] Pricing Advice Needed

2001-06-28 Thread Alva Chew
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