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Courtenay

More options Sep 16 2007, 1:52 pm

From: Courtenay <court3...@gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 10:52:28 -0700

Local: Sun, Sep 16 2007 1:52 pm

Subject: Re: [rails-business] Re: How to Get a Reputation & Promote Your Rails Development Businesss

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On 9/16/07, Rick M. <rick.marti...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Courtenay,

> Work for established web developers is something I'd truly love to do
> as I am a Rails and Web development lover but am going to school full
> time. Where's the best way to find Rails developers that are looking
> for more Rails developers?

Don't over-commit yourself. I've hired many Rails developers to
subcontract over the years and the ones who already had other
commitments (work, school, life) couldn't maintain any sort of
reasonable contracting*. Even the ones who swore black and blue that
they could. Usually they'll last about 4-8 weeks before imploding.
Sad but true.

* It may also be my crappy management style.

That being said, getting work from other developers can follow pretty
much the same rules; get noticed, have some solid code opensourced, or
just get networking. Join your local ruby/rails user group, start
posting on the various mailing lists, helping the noobs.

Courtenay

> On Sep 15, 8:47 pm, Courtenay <court3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/15/07, Eric Davis <edavi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Aaron Blohowiak wrote:
> > > > make a project that you can use as a business card and as a portfolio
> > > > piece on your own time.

> > > Or contribute to an Open Source Rails project.

> > Write a bunch of small, useful, applications that get the respect of
> > the community. Team up with a kickass designer and release it as
> > open-source. Your code will get you work.

> > Contribute to Rails itself. Contribute to the documentation
> > (shameless self-promotion, I'll even pay you a respectable wage).

> > It shouldn't matter what technology a website is built with -- and
> > it's a hell of an easier sell today than it was 2 years ago.

> > Finally, you might like to subcontract for other, established
> > developers -- you don't need to acquire or maintain clients, and the
> > money's good enough AND consider that you're not dealing with stupid
> > clients, only people who know what they're doing.

> > Courtenay

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