While I don’t work on per-hour billing projects very often these days, they do come up every couple of months. When those projects come along the clients expect detailed invoices for the time I log on their projects. As an executive-level technical advisor and consultant my rates reflect the 25-plus years of experience I have [...]
06
Jul
Recreating Kickstarter Is Not A $3500 Project
“It is simple, really. It is exactly like Google, but better. We are going to have an extra button on the search page.” We hear it every week. Some business guy has the next greatest thing since sliced bread. It is exactly like some other application, web services, or mobile app but better. OK, we get that. There [...]
02
Jul
Cyber Sprocket Labs
Cyber Sprocket Labs started out with static HTML pages that quickly became custom PHP nearly a decade ago when the first website went online. Back then we were busy deploying custom solutions for clients not building our own website. When more than a few clients became frustrated with their own custom solutions, Joomla!, or [...]
14
Jun
What’s Wrong With Guru.com
Extortion OK, Chargebacks Not Last Friday, Guru.com suddenly and without warning shut down our account. We were a well established vendor on Guru.com. In fact, we were consistently ranked a top-50 vendor of nearly 50,000 vendors in the Programming & Databases sector, reaching the top 25 at one point. If we hadn’t opted to take [...]
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