Re: php competion
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:10:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php competion | ||
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On Mon, February 4, 2008 2:36 am, Jochem Maas wrote:
> Richard Lynch schreef:
>>
>> On Sun, February 3, 2008 11:51 am, Robert Cummings wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 18:15 +0200, Paul Scott wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 20:10 +1100, doc wrote:
>>>>> come on people try you skills at
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.rhwebhosting.com/comp/index.php
>>>> Reworded as:
>>>>
>>>> Redesign our complete web presence and give us a couple of apps
>>>> that
>>>> we can flog to our clients,
>>>> and we *may* give you a consolation prize.
>>> So not worth the time and effort. Any person capable of doing the
>>> code
>>> conversion (to AT LEAST C, Python, and Perl nonetheless) is smart
>>> enough
>>> to know the potential payoff is worse than flipping burger and
>>> McGeneric's.
>>
>> Actually, the specification for the real estate listing thingie
>> looked
>> pretty trivial...
>
> on the surface of things I would agree - which is why there are plenty
> of trivial
> real-estate listing apps out there. but I doubt that's what they are
> looking for.
Yes, well, the spec they wrote is what I'm referencing, not what I
think they really need...
:-)
> when you factor in multi-user, multi-currency, multi-language aspects,
> the ability
> to switch between metric and imperial measurements, the issues related
> to
> normalization of real-estate data with regard to offering usable
> search mechanisms
> (everyone has different 'styles' of data), backend integration,
> automated export
> to third party systems and map integration things become a little more
> involved ...
> oh and flexibility because every real-estate agent is looking for
> something *slightly*
> different.
Having gone through the process of buying a house this last year, and
using a few online tools/searches, I can confidently say that even the
ones in production use by big-name real estate companies...
suck.
:-)
Not completely totally useless, but I could easily have eliminated 90%
of the listings if they'd just provided some basic simple information
correctly.
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