Programmer for hire
From a user's point of view, you may be the best programmer in the business. You have a knack for no extra bulls**t, your interfaces and functionality are clean, straightforward and elegant. Many, many thanks. Dan
What I'm offering:
I'm willing to write small Windows applications to your specifications. My clients typically commission software for their own use, maybe something to automate office tasks and make their lives a little easier. The programs I create are EXE files you can run on any Windows PC. If you install the Mono libraries they will also run on Linux and/or OS X.
What sort of thing can I help with?
• Data manipulation
• Record keeping
• Automation (e.g. running apps at certain times of day)
• Importing, parsing and filtering text files
• Graphing, etc.
I'm afraid I can't help with this sort of work:
• Audio or Video processing
• Scraping data from websites.
• Homework or university assignments.
• Web-based apps - Maybe try this guy for those? (No, I don't know him)
I'm easy to work with and I understand that not everyone is a computer geek. Contact me, give me a rough idea what you're after and the budget you have in mind. If it's something I can handle for the price we can take it from there.
Once the job is completed to your satisfaction, payment is made and you get the compiled app and the source code. This leaves you free to employ other programmers to work on the same project in future. Along the way I'm happy to send you test builds so you can try out various features.
If I take on a larger project (which is unlikely), we can break it into agreed stages with a set of features and a price for each one. As each stage progresses you get test versions to make sure everything is heading in the direction you want it to. Once you're happy a stage is complete, you make the relevant payment and I send you a zipped copy of the project, including the source code. As above, this means you're free to find another programmer at any time, including cancelling the whole deal before all the stages are complete. (Obviously there wouldn't be any refunds for stages already delivered.)
Rates and payment
We agree on a price and I deliver. There are no revised estimates after I start work, unless you revise the requirements. I accept payment via Paypal, major credit cards and BPAY.
My working environment:
I'm based in Western Australia but my timetable is flexible and I'm willing to work with anyone, wherever you're located.
Confidentiality
I won't reveal who I'm working for, discuss projects with others, steal source code, release other people's work as my own or hold you to ransom. I recognise the value of intellectual property. Occasionally, during initial non-specific discussions, I've discovered that the software I'm being asked to write overlaps with something I'm already working on. If that happens, I won't take on the project.
Agreements
I have to know what you want me to do, and I don't mind discussing this at length to ensure we're a good match.
You can be as circumspect as you like, but rest assured I won't steal your ideas. I'm the sort of guy who treats a handshake or a verbal/emailed agreement as an unbreakable contract, so I'm not interested in lawyers or signing NDAs. If you insist on that sort of thing I can't work with you.
Education
I have two qualifications from Curtin University: a 1988 Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, Film and Literature, which is why I'm good at communicating, and a 1999 Computer Science degree. I'm also the award-winning author of a comedy science fiction series published by Fremantle Press and distributed by Penguin Australia. As you can imagine, these books contain any number of programming and computing jokes ... and also bear little relevance to my contract programming work. But hey, we all need to unwind somehow.
Experience
Over the years I've designed and written large, complex and very reliable apps in QB45 (QuickBasic), VB/Dos, Visual Basic 3, Visual Basic 4, Visual Basic 5, Visual Basic 6 and VB2008, for computers ranging from 8mhz 8086 PCs running msdos 3.3 to multi-core CPUs running the latest versions of Windows. Past applications include multi-user accounting software, factory management software, order tracking software, appointment booking software, share market charting apps and many more. I designed and coded all the software on this site and have dealt with thousands upon thousands of users over the past ten years.
Examples
At one company, staff would hand-write labels for every vertical blind track before production could commence, including the customer's name, order number and track style. I wrote a simple application which allowed staff to type in the customer details once, specify the number of tracks, and then enter the size and style for each one. The program would then sort all tracks into a cutting list for the machine operator, to save on wasted materials. For a few hundred dollars a program like this could save hours of labour and also thousands of dollars in material. Writing out tickets seems like such a trivial task, but it's one of those things where an efficient computer program can really deliver savings.
Hope to hear from you soon!
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