Gratifying
Tuesday, 1 February 2005 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daI wish I understood why it never rained but always poured. I mean, really understood, instead of shrugging and winging it each time. My leading hypothesis is a trickster god. (It's funny when one squirrel falls out of a tree onto a friend, but my money says it's gotta be staged when the second squirrel falls onto her a few weeks later. Do you know anybody who's been hit by two squirrels?)
Since I've taken the full-time job at the University a month ago, I've gotten a gratifying number of requests for my time to do small programming gigs (small as in 15-30 hours worth). The notable feature is that they travel in groups- three one evening last week, two this evening, both which I'd have probably taken six months ago.
I would really like to spread some of this karma around- does anybody know good perl programmers looking for small gigs? I've been directing people to the perl jobs list, but I'd like a bit better connection because these are all for friends or colleagues who I'd like to do the right thing by.
Since I've taken the full-time job at the University a month ago, I've gotten a gratifying number of requests for my time to do small programming gigs (small as in 15-30 hours worth). The notable feature is that they travel in groups- three one evening last week, two this evening, both which I'd have probably taken six months ago.
I would really like to spread some of this karma around- does anybody know good perl programmers looking for small gigs? I've been directing people to the perl jobs list, but I'd like a bit better connection because these are all for friends or colleagues who I'd like to do the right thing by.
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gig grab bag
Date: Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:01 pm (UTC)About one month's work cleaning up a batch of 20 scripts used by an IC fabrication plant. Lots of DBI. I'm not connected to this one at all, but I can vouch for someone who works there.
CGI maintenance for GD graphics programming: Boosterclocks makes one-off customized slate clocks. Probably 10 hours of HTML and CGI to make the CGI work with another website host. Client pays on time by credit-card. If you can put up with their... unique design sense... you can browse through the site and select "see my clock now" to get a sense of the CGI output.
Hand-holding and basic CGI for a website design firm in Vermont. Most recent project was building a mySQL membership directory, moving scripts from a windows to linux host, and "cleaning up" some awful CGI, but they didn't have time to pay me to rewrite the bad stuff from scratch.
Re: gig grab bag
Date: Wednesday, 2 February 2005 03:40 pm (UTC)