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how much is it to hire a programmer these days?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by hikanoo49, Apr 23, 2010.

  1. hikanoo49

    hikanoo49 Member

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    I am looking for a programmer that knows php/mysql for a SEO agency i am involved with. I cant afford a ton of money but need someone good and reliable.

    any suggestions? has anyone of you had success using offshore workers?



    thanks in advance for your help
     
  2. Kyakko

    Kyakko Member

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    I'm a web developer with 7 years experience and a cs degree. I charge about 40 dollars an hour. If your interested, I can send you samples of my work... that is if i can telecommute. PM me if you're interested.

    P.S. don't go cheap... you'll regret it when you need to upgrade your webapp.
     
  3. updawg

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    if you have to ask you can't afford it
     
  4. PinoyRocket

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    i work for odesk.com, try them, you got cheap services from IT all over th world for very very reasonable price.
     
  5. Ziggy

    Ziggy QUEEN ANON

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    Find someone to remote in from India.
     
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    Do you not like the OP or something?
     
  7. Air Langhi

    Air Langhi Contributing Member

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    Just go post flyers at UH. You take drupal or joomla find a theme customize it with some css and boom you are done.
     
  8. Ziggy

    Ziggy QUEEN ANON

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    He needs someone cheap that can get the job done. India. Seriously.
     
  9. Kyakko

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    There's getting the job done and there's doing it right. I don't know about India, but I had to fix someone's disaster recently because he wanted to go "cheap" in the beginning. I swear to you, it had to be created by a sophomore CS college student.

    There were all kinds of security issues: XSS prone, un-sanitized variables (prone to sql injections), unprimed variables, passwords hashed and stored with using just md5... and many more.

    I literally had to restart from scratch. The database was structured poorly and the code was spaghetti. I converted most of the code from functional to OOP, used best practices and plugged up security holes. I also made it "more" W3C and 508 compliant.

    For god sakes, don't get a college student to do it...ever! I've fix my share web-apps because they think it's like upgrading granny's Pentium 4. Employers, who don't know better and want to go cheap, believes them.

    Yes, I'm trying to sell myself here, but still... web-apps are not what you want to go cheap on because it's publicly accessible.
     
    #9 Kyakko, Apr 24, 2010
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