I heard this guy named Cyber around here is...
 

Ok at programming. Anyone heard of him? Anyone else know the languages well and ready for hire?

Is he not a good programmer?

I have no idea. I don't recall saying that he wasn't.

This sentence:

inspired the facepalm.

oh.. ok. I'm just basically looking for a programmer who doesn't rip people off if given... say... $750 up front expecting something and getting nothing.

Also not looking for programmers who will NOT charge $900 for an automated email incorporated into site... just a down to earth competent individual who, in general, does not suck donkey ass :2 cents:

Here ya go, buddy. Free of charge:

PHPMailer.

I can work for you as long as I get a fair pay for hard work and bonuses here and there, that motivates me.

I'm a PHP / MySQL / AJAX / JQUERY / HTML / CSS I can basically do it all if I have the proper documentation...

Cheers.

That sounds fair... Can you bring one client in this thread and post positive for you?

Right now there's no one online so I can tell you that you can give me any test and I'll do it.
(right now I'm a little tired since here is morning, sometimes I code over my limit since I'm sleepless :) )

ok... here's the test... I need an email activation incorporated into an already signup process requiring email (I just need the email actually confirmed... I think they call that double opt it)

I need an email automatically sent after someone signs up on my site, a few things to that but that can wait.

So, I guess my test is this and I will email you specifics... get the email confirmation step working on my site and also my contact page is not working... fix that one as well.

2 simple things for a good programmer... you do that you have a bunch more work. I will contact you with the details via your sig.

your email I reached by clicking your sig did not work :(

you can send an email trough here: http://24hscripts.com/contact.php or send an email to webmaster[at]24hscripts[dot]com

I'll go to sleep, just send the info I need to my email and I can start working after I wake up

md5($user + $content + time())
mysql_query(insert into ... where user_id=)
mail()

function activate(..) {
...
}

I got a quote for $900 to have an automated email sent 4 days after a trial signup. The trial is all setup and only need email sent out... programmer told me it would take 2 full days of writing code and checking for errors :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

:321GFY:321GFY

Someone needs money, or really fucking sucks. A trivial issue such as rand(x,y) or time() is more than enough to thwart most efforts for auto-fucking, and anyone who says md5 is too trivial is a bullshit artist. Nobody cares enough to hack an 'activate' function if it's written well enough.

adultcoder... he's been recommended here before but I am actually offended by what he proposed for contract

I don't know him personally, so I can not say. I no longer do adult as there's more money in mainstream work. I recommended mrkris, and Tanguay before, and rather few others here. I have never worked, or suggested 'adultcoder', as I have never seen his work.

I've had some dealings with both Adult Coder and Cyber, and would work with both of them again.

I've sent over this thead to Cyber, but not sure if he's still doing adult stuff.

Scriptguy has done great work for me in the past

Cyber has a awsome wordpress plugin to :)

:thumbsup

Fuck me, there have been really shit obvious trolls here before you, but you are more shit and more obvious than all of them put together. Well done. Have a prize.

More shit, fuck me? What does that mean? You don't think i've emailed scriptguy?

I'm stucked here...

there is your other day of coding im sure.. you can't ask one coder for one thing then another for something different then compare the two as far as complexity or time-line.

I recommend scriptworkz but i'm not sure if they are accepting work at this time or not http://scriptworkz.com

I can tell you with 100% certaintity I will not pay a coder $900 to install an automated email upon signup with a coupon code...

What all did you ask for that he quoted because each time you state something in this thread you add another little thing on.

So far what I have from this is:

1. you want a confirmation email sent out on sign up. That email would include a confirmation/activation link that would have to be visited before the user would be activated.

2. The sign up may or may not include handling some kind of coupon code. Does the coupon code database exist already or does that part need to be written?

3. Then 4 days after the trial signup another email goes out.

Do you need a screen to manage the emails and be able to see who has activated?
Do you need the emails to be dynamic? or is it the same email basically each time?
etc etc etc..........

I really don't want to answer your question but will, I'm not giving specifics because I want a programmer to read and then give me a quote... I'll do that privately...

but I will anyway...

Email confirmation link upon first signup.
Provide a code in email that is sent out 4 days after signup... if entered on site within the next few days user is directed to a page that has 30% off billing... on my server.
Database already exists to see the members and no email is not dynamic... same one everytime.

It's ridiculous looking for a qualified programmer all the time and shit like... "I charge $160/hr because I can do things 8 times faster then a junior programmer" and then they just don't. You know?... it's not rocket science.

Charging attorney and doctor fees from a so/so programmer is ludicrous. I have found my shit does not get done any faster, I pay a whole lot more, and just am not very happy with the programmers from past.

This board should have a section called qualified programmers and rates. Post them up, people leave feedback, and many people like myself would use it.

I am a programmer asking the question. Just trying to wrap my brain around what all you want here.

Ok, the coupon code part, you would want that so a code can only be used once, right? Is it ok if someone other than the person who signed up for the trial uses the coupon? or does it have to be the person who originally signed up?

I am assuming the 30% off part is accomplished by an alternate join page (as you indicated) and the program does not have to mess with it other than to get the user to the page.

Right, it would be a separate page and I do not care who uses the code as long as its validity terminates 3 days after being generated. That way I could send emails later on to users offering a similar deal and try and get them to pay again.

What I've posted though is just an example... what happens when I say my contact us page is emailing right? Another $400 to fix it? It's just that... projects develop over time as there is a need, a decent hourly rate to me is far better then a quote for a site/project that is already in development.
Lump sum projects, to me, are for new projects and an hourly rate for doing the massaging to the site and crossing the T's.

Can a coupon code be used more than once? Meaning can 5 different users all come in using the same coupon code during it's active peripod (3 days after generation).

Jumping back to the initial confirmation email. Right now, in your system, I am assuming that when someone signs up they are intially active. So that would have to change so that they are intially inactive and do not go to an active status until confirmation/activation.

What kind of code are we dealing with for the existing system? Do you have source code if it is encoded? N eed to know this because the easiest way to change the initial status would be modifying the join up part where the user gets written to the database. If we cannot modify the existing code then a wraparound that goes in and inactivates the record immediately after creating it would have to be written. That would be a much clunkier way to go.

Could also be that we luck out and the active status on sign up is being controlled by a default in the database and all that would have to happen would be to change that default.

As a programmer I usually will provide a lump sum quote where I can see that it will benefit both myself and my client.

I would much rather bill stuff hourly for actual time spent.

Problem is that most clients think you should work for the estimate and never go over (at least on what they are billed) which in essence is a lump sum quote. If there are lots of unknowns then the quote needs to be higher to handle them. If we can eliminate the unknowns and get to a fairly concise requirements list then we can do a much more accurate quote.

There are a lot of Cybers there... I guess the thread is not about me since I am noob to advance programming.

That would, of course, depend on what has to change to fix it.

Honestly, these are 2 many questions and I don't see your contact info if you want to leave it then do so. How can requiring email verification, just like this forum "Please check your email and click validation link to complete activation", generate so many questions? It is likely one of the simplest things for a coder to do.
Why is it for 3 years I can make 1 phone call and 1 email to my designer and he comes through 100% of the time? I've never switched designers unless he is way backed up and the design is something like a banner.

Just make sure who ever you hire has some refs

Because we do not know your system. If we know what the code is like we can give a more accurate picture of what all needs to be done. The less info up front the higher the quote because we have to leave a bunch of "discovery" time.

My contact info is in my profile, where it belongs :p

Because you have a 3 year history with them the communication is much easier and the fact that design and programming are two totally different functions.

Got some contact info? Sorry, but I'm not posting my client's information publicly, and I'm not going to ask them to post in this thread.

If wanted, drop me a line... troywilk [at] gmail.com

And yes, the e-mail verification thing is quite simple. It was included in a project I just completed, and I probably did it for free, since it was a large project. Separately though, that would be a max of 0.5 hours from me.

I have your information but someone is looking into some things now for me.

Just a question though, if you say you won't post your client's information but then tell me "you" would charge .5 hours to do an email verification, what does that mean?

I mean, every member on GFY doesn't need to know who I work with, and I'm certain my clients wouldn't appreciate me letting everyone know. I'm happy to connect you in private for references though.

Then if a client came to me, asking to develop account e-mail verification, I would most likely quote 0.5 hours. That's assuming there's more work than just that though.

good luck with that.
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