Finding a Software Contractor

[buggalugs]

desolate said:

buggalugs said:

A retainer might sweeten the deal a bit rather than the odd hour. Just a thought.

Yes - I had though about that.

I'll draw up a bit of a plan for the "minor changes" and see what that looks like.

Thanks again.

I just noticed you're in Cheshire - my friend lives in Wilmslow and went freelance earlier this year. He's done similar stuff before. He's good. Do you want me to PM his details?

[anonymous-user]

buggalugs said:

I just noticed you're in Cheshire - my friend lives in Wilmslow and went freelance earlier this year. He's done similar stuff before. He's good. Do you want me to PM his details?

Yes please.

[buggalugs]

desolate said:

buggalugs said:

I just noticed you're in Cheshire - my friend lives in Wilmslow and went freelance earlier this year. He's done similar stuff before. He's good. Do you want me to PM his details?

Yes please.

PM sent!

[jammy-git]

bigandclever said:

Being an Eeyore ...

You're looking for an independent who is willing to take on someone else's code, in a heavily-regulated industry, to support a live system and make as-yet-unknown "minor" changes on an ad-hoc basis. Personally, I wouldn't touch it

But you could try looking on rentacoder, freelancer, guru, /r/forhire (Reddit) even contractoruk,

I would recommend a post on forhire on Reddit.

[anonymous-user]

Well....

3 days before the deadline the contractor I started working with has decided he doesn't have the skills to complete a specific task!

Anyone know a competent developer who is up to speed with Heroku/Node/Coffee?

Oh and can start and finish a job before thursday night!

[768]

Is it not Java anymore?

I'm in contract now. Good luck.

[anonymous-user]

768 said:

Is it not Java anymore?

I'm in contract now. Good luck.

My extensive due diligence led me to believe it was java - transpires it node.js and coffee - whatever that means.

[jammy-git]

It means JavaScript, which isn't the same as Java.

[LordGrover]

Probably best to 'amend' the deadline.

[anonymous-user]

LordGrover said:

Probably best to 'amend' the deadline.

Pen, paper and fax machine all dusted off.

[ecs]

If the deadline changes, send me a PM (would've replied first time round if you'd said JavaScript).

[anonymous-user]

ecs said:

If the deadline changes, send me a PM (would've replied first time round if you'd said JavaScript).

The deadline is what it is, but realistically it isn't going to happen in time so Plan B being mobilised.

I will PM you now

[BenjiS]

The magic words you want to Google are "javascript managed service support sme".

You need a support service with concrete SLAs for anything your business actually depends upon, and it's not the kind of thing you really want to get from an indy contractor IMO.


(Note, I have no affiliation with any of those companies that will turn up on that Google search. My org does managed services but your budget would have many many zeroes per year in it.)