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Freelance Websites - Email Services
When doing freelance work on websites, as part of my service, I offer email addresses and inbox storage. I currently use a postfix/courier stack. I tend to point people towards setting up a separate ...
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What to charge for a ready-built piece of software?
Recently I was contacted by someone interested buying a piece of software that I wrote to automate a process. The 'client' knows little about the program, except what it outputs and how easy it is to ...
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Is it a responsibility of the software developer to understand what the customer meant with his request?
Kind of a yes / no question and why?
Is it the responsibility of the software developer to understand what the customer meant with his/her request or is it the responsibility of the customer to ...
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Choosing a rate to charge a client for training their programmer
We've been put in a bit of a difficult situation and I'm trying to figure out the best way to deal with it and how to charge for it.
We've built a custom web app for a customer and I've been ...
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How can I effectively discuss language limitations with a client?
I would like to know the ideas that are being used for explaining to the client the limitations of the language used for enhancement of the existing project.
Given a scenario was that the project ...
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How to break the “php is a bad language” paradigm? [closed]
PHP is not a bad language (or at least not as bad as some may suggest). I had teachers that didn't even know PHP was object oriented until I told them. I've had clients that immediately distrust us ...
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Is it OK for me to suggest ready-made scripts to a programmer? If so, how can I do it without offending him/her? [closed]
Is it ok to suggest pre-built scripts from a place like codecanyon to a programmer who is building a startup web app? Or is it more likely to offend?
I don't expect that a whole web app could be ...
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How do I “hand over the keys” to a webserver I'm hosting? [closed]
I only have a verbal hosting agreement in place with a customer. Unfortunately the relationship has deteriorated to the point of no return, and I'd like to end the hosting agreement and hand them ...
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Can a client sue you for “broken” software if you're a contractor paid hourly? [closed]
I've been working for a client for over a year and a half at an hourly rate. He's been pretty happy with the work thus far, and he has paid all invoices without objection, but his business has ...
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How to answer “When will it be done?”
We all have it, problems that prove difficult to fix and working out a fix through obscure code and bizarre unexpected functionality. Slowly, logically working your way through trying to find ...
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iOS Server: HTTP/Apache Drawbacks?
I'm looking to create a client/server application for iOS devices, where client is the iPhone/iPad and server is hosted either at home (Macbook w/ Apache) or online. I've seen many methods suggested ...
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Transitioning from being a bespoke development to a COTS development house
Currently one of the major applications that our organisation produces would be regarded as bespoke software as it is specifically designed for one specific client organisation.
However, we have ...
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Tools to ensure clients expectations are met
I was in an interview recently and was asked if I use any tools to ensure a clients expectations for a project are met. I couldn't really think of any actual tools apart from stuff like JIRA to ensure ...
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What would you do if your client required you not to use object-oriented programming?
I am writing a program to simulate the activity of ants in a grid (PDF). The ant can move around, pick up things and drop things.
The problem is while the action of the ants and the positions of each ...
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Mobile (Client) to Amazon S3 (Server) - Architecture
let's start off with the problem statement:
My iOS application has a login form. When the user logs in, a call is made to my API and access granted or denied. If access was granted, I want the user ...
