Diverse Tuesdayry

[justbeast]

Who can resist 'if operating systems were like airplanes'-type comparison lists? yuki_onna and I certainly can't. Therefore:
Programming Languages Are To Literary Schools As...

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We went to an Introvert Party at kythryne's house this weekend. Those are a profoundly good idea. An introvert party is where people get together, bring some craft or project to work on

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[tygerdsebat]

I'm not sure if you're interested, but I have connections with a hacker space called NYC Resistor...

[justbeast]

Oh?? Tell me moar. What's the story, what do they do?

[thewronghands]

This is them. My friend Bre works with them, and Bre rocks. They've gotten some press. If you organized an event there, I would do my best to haul up from DC to attend. (I keep telling Bre that I'll come see their new digs, and I haven't yet. Bad hacker friend!)

local programmers

[luminesia]

There's a lot of good to be had with eLance (or Guru, or Rent-a-coder), but it is hard sometimes to score gigs (especially as it can be so focused on production work, and quick turn-around).

I think there's more programmer's then you think up here (Portland area), who might be interested in a Build Something or a BarCamp.

You might give some folks over at TechMaine a shout, particularly the PHP user's group.

Cheers,
S

Re: local programmers

[justbeast]

Oh, interesting, thanks!

[myshanter]

I have some experience from the other side and the more fieldish kind of work. I hire techs from a site called OnForce, and they all seem happy with it, although they also say it isn't enough to replace a "real" job, and also you have to be able to just drop everything for it.

[justbeast]

Cool, thanks!

[lishablog]

I second this advice. I got started as a Web dev consultant by doing freelance work for colleges and not-for-profits. Some places will try to convince you to do everything for free. Point out that you have to put a roof over your own head, too, or else you'll be looking for charity, but that you can do excellent work at a price they can afford.

I don't know how much you lean towards open source, but using open source software (like Drupal) as a base for whatever an org needs and then customizing it with your codery skillz can make a massive difference both in price and in the level of quality they get in the end.

[jume]

I don't know if you read slashdot, but there was an article a few weeks back about being a freelance coder, there might be some tidbits to glean from it if you haven't already http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/07/1822235

[justbeast]

Oh, thank you! I missed that one!