Re: Out of the blue question..

2009/4/7 Chris <dmagick@gmail.com>: > bruce wrote: >> >> Hi Ladies/Gents of the list... >> >> I've got an issue/question and figured I'd fire it to the list. >> >> Over time, I've had a few projects that I've worked on, where I've >> required >> someone with skills way beyond mine for a given area. And rather than >> spend >> hours trying to figure it out, I've sometimes hired someone to aid for a >> very short amount of time.. >> >> The issues have ranged from serious db optimization, to server security >> issues, etc... >> >> I was wondering, I'm assuming that other developers here have had similar >> issues. Has anyone thought about doing a group hire of someone with the >> advanced skills to solve the particular issue for the problem domain. >> >> IE if enough people have, or know you're going to have mysql questions... >> Then we find someone who's good/skilled and more or less have that person >> on >> retainer for the group. This of course depends on how many people would >> want >> to use the person's skills, and how often we'd need the person, and other >> issues... >> >> I figured that I'd post here to see what the list thinks/thought.. etc... > > You can post job requests for stuff like this on elance.com, rentacoder.com > and I'm sure hundreds of other places. > > I don't think this list is the appropriate place for it really but that's > just my opinion. Didn't really read Bruce's email didya Chris?!! @Bruce: In my experience most common problems that everyone has are documented somewhere on the internet, and for those problems that aren't common I think it's unlikely you'd get enough people willing to pay a retainer for something that's readily available on demand fairly inexpensively, but I've been wrong before. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/