OK, I have a small project I need someone to program for me. I don't have any experience with graphics work, so I can't do it, but I don't believe it's a big project (it's basically a image generator that creates GIFs / JPGs of letters & numbers from the command line) - seems like a one or two day project at the most. I have looked on the web for independent development companies, but everything I found was for massive tens-of-thousands of dollars of development type work, which this certainly isn't. Does anyone know of any independent programming companies that do small projects like this? Or where I might find one?
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What OS command line? I suppose this is for a script to invoke from a web server? It could be a big deal if you are supporting multiple font sets. let me know, email me if you want.
If you're willing to go open source, I bet there's already something out there like this, and if not, I am certain an Open Source developer would amke something like this, provided it stays open. <i>edit</i>: Check out these projects: <a href="http://martin.gleeson.com/fly/">Fly</a> <a href="http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/GD/">GD</a> Check out PHP too -- you can do images on the fly with PHP. I'm sure there's a lot more out there too at <a href="http://www.freshmeat.net">Freshmeat</a> or somewhere like that.
Thanks for the responses, guys. I'll send you all more details by email later tonight. heyp- The basic idea, in my mind, was under Windows or DOS or whatnot. Basically, I want to be able to type myprogram.exe AEB231 and it would create a aeb231.gif or .jpg image with those characters in it. It's basically to be used as a security code that people have to type in to help us combat scripts that run trying to create accounts on our site. Ideally, it would be able to take a second parameter that would vary the image a bit (location, font, whatever) so people couldn't copy all the images over time and create their own database (which is what they do now with our current much simpler setup). Anyway, I'll send out more details to you guys later. Thanks for the help!
