Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-09 Thread Nathan Rixham
tedd wrote: At 4:30 PM +0100 10/8/10, Nathan Rixham wrote: tedd wrote: Now, back to the question at hand -- what price would you sell a line of your code for? Interesting case and question Tedd! Quite sure we all realise the answer is not black and white but various shades of grey, and I wo

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-09 Thread tedd
At 4:30 PM +0100 10/8/10, Nathan Rixham wrote: tedd wrote: Now, back to the question at hand -- what price would you sell a line of your code for? Interesting case and question Tedd! Quite sure we all realise the answer is not black and white but various shades of grey, and I wouldn't fancy

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-08 Thread Nathan Rixham
Nathan Rixham wrote: tedd wrote: Now, back to the question at hand -- what price would you sell a line of your code for? Just realised I responded to the wrong question - the answer was how I'd approach the original question "What do you think he was paid?" For myself, I wouldn't place a pr

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-08 Thread Nathan Rixham
tedd wrote: Now, back to the question at hand -- what price would you sell a line of your code for? Interesting case and question Tedd! Quite sure we all realise the answer is not black and white but various shades of grey, and I wouldn't fancy doing this for real - however, given the assumpt

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread Bastien Koert
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:51 PM, tedd wrote: > At 6:50 PM +0100 10/7/10, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: >> >> Surely it would have been a bit more sensible to work out the time the >> programmer had spent on the project and then calculate it as a percentage of >> the total time that programmer wo

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread Joshua Kehn
$100 a line. If you want more then one line let's meet and go over the project. I might give a significant discount. Regards, -Josh Joshua Kehn | josh.k...@gmail.com http://joshuakehn.com On Oct 7, 2010, at 4:51 PM, tedd wrote: > At 6:50 PM +0100 10/7/10,

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread tedd
At 6:50 PM +0100 10/7/10, a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: Surely it would have been a bit more sensible to work out the time the programmer had spent on the project and then calculate it as a percentage of the total time that programmer would spend on it to complete it (which might not be the

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread Robert Cummings
On 10-10-07 02:04 PM, Joshua Kehn wrote: In the case payment does come down to lines of code written I'm already covered. if( count> 5) { /* Bracing Style } I hope your $count var is being incremented properly under this model: Just think how much money could be made if you need to su

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread Joshua Kehn
I guess that's what I get for spending the last four weeks developing with JavaScript and Node.js. Regards, -Josh Joshua Kehn | josh.k...@gmail.com http://joshuakehn.com On Oct 7, 2010, at 2:09 PM, Daniel P. Brown wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 14:04,

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 14:04, Joshua Kehn wrote: > In the case payment does come down to lines of code written I'm already > covered. > > if( count > 5) > { >    /* Bracing Style > } PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant count - assumed 'count' on line 1 PHP Warning: Unterminated comme

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread Joshua Kehn
---- > From: "tedd" > Date: Thu, Oct 7, 2010 18:20 > Subject: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line) > To: > > Hi gang: > > Several years ago I was involved in a court case where a programmers > work was being evaluated to establish a dollar a

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk
ssume the total price attributed to each line was no more than 3 or 4 cents (damb English androids don't have the cent character) Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk - Reply message - From: "tedd" Date: Thu, Oct 7, 2010 18:20 Subject: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post (

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread tedd
At 1:30 PM -0400 10/7/10, Daniel P. Brown wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 13:20, tedd wrote: Hi gang: Hi, Tedd! What's it like over there in Australia, where it's already Friday? ;-P -- LOL I'm sorry -- I seldom know what day it is. I honestly thought it was Friday. So much fo

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread Daniel P. Brown
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 13:20, tedd wrote: > Hi gang: Hi, Tedd! What's it like over there in Australia, where it's already Friday? ;-P -- Dedicated Servers, Cloud and Cloud Hybrid Solutions, VPS, Hosting (866-) 725-4321 http://www.parasane.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://ww

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread Joshua Kehn
I'm not sure this is even worth answering. The question isn't how many lines of code were written but percentage of the project completed. If he estimated 8 months, worked for 4 months, and was 50% done, he should get half his estimate. Hourly rates wouldn't come into it unless the client thoug

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread Robert Cummings
On 10-10-07 01:20 PM, tedd wrote: Hi gang: Several years ago I was involved in a court case where a programmers work was being evaluated to establish a dollar amount for the work done. The case was a dispute where the client wanted money back from a programmer for a discontinued project. The pr

Re: [PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread Bastien Koert
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:20 PM, tedd wrote: > Hi gang: > > Several years ago I was involved in a court case where a programmers work > was being evaluated to establish a dollar amount for the work done. > > The case was a dispute where the client wanted money back from a programmer > for a discont

[PHP] tedd's Friday Post ($ per line)

2010-10-07 Thread tedd
Hi gang: Several years ago I was involved in a court case where a programmers work was being evaluated to establish a dollar amount for the work done. The case was a dispute where the client wanted money back from a programmer for a discontinued project. The programmer simply wanted to be p