Questions for professional programmers who are often contracted out for various positions rather than being part of a company.
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Never had a job - Will it matter for internship? [duplicate]
On my 20 years on this planet I have never had a job.
I am a CS student who just finished his first year at uni with a 3.8 GPA. I will be applying for internships next fall, and I will have a nice ...
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Important Questions to ask Client at Briefing (Web Development) [closed]
I am just moving into freelancing (my primary sector will be web design / web development). I've got a few projects for friends as well as one or two 'professional' projects in the pipeline. I would ...
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Is small business website freelancing dead? [closed]
The last time I freelanced was about 4 years ago (before I went back for another round at Berkeley). Since then, it looks like about 20 different big-name small business website services have ...
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Billing for work with Cash and Check [closed]
Freelancing payment solutions are plentiful. But are there any that allow clients to pay me with Cash or Check (without me having to accept it personally)?
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On what terms and conditions I do partnership with a non IT partner? [closed]
I m a developer and have a small software development setup, I want to have a partner for sales and marketing and business activities, On what terms and conditions I do partnership with a non IT ...
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Estimating cost of labor for a controlled experiment
Let's say you are a software engineering researcher and you are designing a controlled experiment to compare two software technologies or techniques (e.g., TDD vs. non-TDD, Python vs. Go) with respect ...
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Impact of ending contract with know-ins-and-outs lead developer of a project [duplicate]
I have a long time running project. Its been running for about 6 months. The project is very big. The lead developer/team leader designed the project and the whole project is in his brain. He knows ...
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Expanding on vendor software?
I am a SCADA consultant and I work with many software packages. Due to their robust nature they include the capability of executing internal/external activex and vbscript code.
Over the years I have ...
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Who owns code if project cancelled
The problem: I am working on a freelance marketplace, and I decided to cancel project with one of my clients, because client is impossible to work with with limitless delays and lots of bugs in his ...
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Hire a programmer and own the source code [closed]
I am about to hire a freelance programmer for a application that i need. Sure i'm going to create a contract where I need to state that all source code files and binary code will be my ownership, in ...
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How do I get my first job at a freelancing website? [closed]
I am new to freelancing websites. The problem is I have zero rating and I can't get any projects even if I bid the lowest amount.
I tried bidding aggressively. I even tried bidding the lowest ...
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How do you know if you're an underpaid developer? [closed]
I have been having a lot of discussions with developers on being paid fairly. I'm curious how do you define being underpaid? And what do you do to fix that problem?
This is the article that caused ...
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Website Development Process - HTML to CMS [closed]
I need some advice from experts. I recently hired someone to develop our website. She submitted and we approved a proposal for $9100 to first code the website in HMTL and host on Dreamhost and then ...
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Referring to freelance marketplaces as evidence of the experience for a potential full-time employer
I am currently a freelancer (JavaScript) developer, and now I am striving to work more on freelance marketplaces. Some time I want to move from Russia to Canada and find full-time work there. So:
How ...
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Who manages a CMS after a freelance project is complete?
I've been a full stack .net developer for several years now using C#/MVC4/SQL Server and have never taken on a freelance project. This is because up until now I have worked only as a full-time ...
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Starting consulting while employed - conflict of interest
First of all I am not after legal advice. This is a bit TL;DR but I have a summary at the bottom, I'm explaining it all so people can offer insightful advise.
Situation
I need to explain my present ...
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Software agreement for farming out development work [closed]
I'm looking for guidance from someone who has successfully hired a freelancer to assist with writing software they later marketed publicly. Simply, what kind of software agreement should I have the ...
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Wrote an application for a friend. Who is the owner of the software? [closed]
Friend asked me to develop a software application for him. I did and he paid me.
There was no written contract. I live in UK and he resides in Canada.
My question is: who is the owner of the software ...
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Which Open Source License is right for my project?
I'm developing a suite of software tools that I need help with which is why I want to release my software open-source. People should be able to use and modify my code as they please while contributing ...
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If I hire you for “a day”, how many hours are expected? [closed]
I've seen a lot of advice for freelance programmers which advocates quoting your rates in periods of a minimum of one day. That means that when someone asks your rate, you would say "$500 per day" ...
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How do web-developers do web-design when freelancing? [closed]
So I got my first job recently as junior web-developer.
My company creates small/medium sites for wide variety of customers: autobusiness companies, weddign agencies, some sauna websites, etcetc, hope ...
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Freelancing - Getting paid for the quote or estimate
It is often necessary to spend time designing a solution, breaking down the design into tasks and sub tasks and estimating the time it will take to complete each task in order to produce a reasonable ...
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Demonstrate bad code to client?
A client has asked me to do a redesign of their website, an ASP.NET Webforms application that was developed by another consultant. It seemed like a relatively straightforward job, but after looking at ...
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Independent contractors posting projects to their portfolio
I'm about to hire freelance contractors to do small pieces of my web projects.
Is it standard to allow them to put the project on their portfolio? Say a simple debugging task getting a specific ...
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Which metric/list should be used to evaluate whole software development team?
The title might be seem vague, so let me tell you a little bit history what i am trying to clarify question.
I have been hired as a consultant for a corporate's small development division. The ...
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How to justify technology choice to customer?
When freelancing / contracting a customer will typically specify functional requirements, acceptance criteria, etc, and the implementation details are in the developer's hands.
As a developer your ...
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Pricing personalized software?
Currently i'm working on a Purchased Order System Application Project for a small scale company.
The Software that i am working on is personalized based on the on their business requirement.
The ...
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Is there a 2-year exclusivity requirement for building iOS apps? [closed]
I've heard a rumor that when building applications for iOS, the developer is bound to a 2-year exclusivity of that application for iOS upon the project's completion. Is this a true statement or is the ...
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Freelancer web designer/developer charges [closed]
I'm about to start my freelance career as a web designer/developer. I'd like to know on what basis web devs charge their customers? I know its a bit difficult since prices wary based on various ...
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What are general guidelines and advices to estimate how much you should charge for a project, being a novice freelancer? [closed]
I am an experienced programmer but completely new to the market. Someone wants me to do a project for them, but I do not know how much it is worth. What are general guidelines/advices for finding what ...
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4answers
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Problems hiring someone on elance or similar sites [closed]
I am assigned to hire some developers/designers in these kind of sites, and I'm looking for war stories about problems with this strategy. All I found so far are tips about getting more jobs as a ...
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6answers
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Is it okay to rollback code if your client refuses to pay you? [closed]
A friend of mine did some contracting work to add localization support to an existing mobile app. He was not contracted to add any other features or fix any already existing bugs. He has finished his ...
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Best accounting software for freelance/contractor programmer? [closed]
I know this isn't exactly a programming question but I am hoping to find some programmers who freelance or do contractor work in the US. I have started to work on side jobs and have been billing my ...
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Is it common to purchase an insurance policy for contract development work? [closed]
I am not sure if this is the best place for the question, but I am not sure where else to ask.
Background
I am a contract developer and have just been asked to provide a general liability policy for ...
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Long-term Freelance contract: should it have a salary-day or not? [closed]
I don't like to speak about money. I just like to work. I still believe in a relationship between good work and good compensation. Hence I don't want ask my employer about my compensations, actually ...
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Is it a bad practice to quit a company only to begin as a consultant? [closed]
Like the title says; is it a bad practice to quit a company after a few years, only to begin as a consultant for the same 'customer'?
I've been lucky enough to come in to a company in the oil ...
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Productivity strategies for one developer using many PCs [closed]
In a talk about time management, a famous computer scientist said:
"One machine in your life is the right number."
He recommended a laptop with a docking station.
After trying this approach ...
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My work isn't being used… what can/ should I do?
Several months ago I was approached by a small business, who had seen my work previously and asked me to create a website for them.
Since then, the website hasn't changed one bit and I haven't heard ...
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Applying for job: how to showcase work done for (private) past clients?
I want to apply for my first "real" (read: non-freelance) Ruby on Rails job.
I've built several apps already. My best work (also the most logically complicated app) was for a freelance client, and ...
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Version control and project management for freelancing jobs
Are there version control and project management tools which "work well" with freelancing jobs, if I want to keep my customer involved in the project at all times?
What concerns me is that repository ...
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How much more should I charge for freelance project source code?
Currently I'm working as a freelancer, and for the first time a faced a client who wants the source code too.
This client owns a software development company, and wants to have rights over the source ...
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Should I continue to perform freelance work for customers who keep on demanding more without paying?
So a client comes to me and says it needs some work done. Basically 4 tasks, which I agreed to perform for a certain price. The customer creates the job offer (a fixed time and price job) on ODesk, I ...
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Where to find sample Statement of Work for freelance? [closed]
I recently found myself in a position to complete freelance iOS development. I would like to provide the client a contract outlining scope, timetable, deliverables, and cost. Where can I find a ...
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Freelance Web Developer tools
I'm thinking of freelancing and building web sites in my free time.
I have experience in C#/ASP.NET, JavaScript/jQuery as well as HTML/CSS and SQL. Thus, I feel like I have sufficient web ...
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Best way to approach a partner business to understand the need for B2B web-services
We currently work with a company that has a fairly simplistic web system for processing warranty information. The only way to get data out of it is through excel exporting. Compilation of this data ...
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Is blogging a good platform to get into freelancing from a completely unrelated job?
Quick background - I work in a bank doing financial modelling where I need to do some domain specific programming, but otherwise it's only statistics and presentations.
Situation - Software has ...
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Should I charge a client for mistakes that I made?
After developing a website for a client, I've realized that the load time is too extreme, and some changes need to be made. The extreme load times are attributed to the bloated css/js frameworks that ...
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Sharing ideas without risk of leaking [closed]
As freelancers, we meet somewhere and chat about a new idea for a project, brainstorm etc. Up to this point, we have taken notes of the ideas, but we would like to be able to share more efficiently ...
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IT Consulting from US and German VAT Tax [closed]
I'm an independent IT consultant in the US, and I just completed some work for a German company, all done remotely from the US. I've sent them an invoice, but they are now asking if I have a VAT ...
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Should I pay my developers for bugs fixes for a project or work that's still in progress?
We are working with a group of developers on a project. The project is still in progress (not completed) and these developers charge us for time spent on fixing bugs on codes that were not written ...
