3 x £500up for grabs...

murpheous

Hi All,

Apologies for posting here, but i'm sure many of you will be interested in my proposition, thought this would be the best place to offer it out.

I have 3 lots of £500 up for grabs, in the form of 3 very small php classes.
There is a damn fine possibility that if this method works there will b more work. A very short description is listed below.

Few rules..

a: first to deliver the class, and show working gets the money
b: must be self-written, no open source - sorry all - reqd for proprietary project, and must be able to show design notes
c: u sign our simple straight-forward contractor agreement, which says your work is original and you are responsible for taxes and stuff, and u supply us an invoice for the money. Also to warrant your code for 3 months, and provide any fixes (shouldn't b any) within 1 week.
e: Initially only open to anyone in the UK, due to contract law - sorry, if no response it will be offered out to all.

Thanx all - and again apologies.
You can reply here, or contact me direct on the email addy:

me a!t murpheous dot com

The work:

a) Generic Graph class -

We would like to be able to simply create a new instance of the class, then call a function such as Create, and the class would use a mysql recordset to create the graph, save it, and set a class variable for the auto-gen filename or similar.
We would also want to be able to graph almost unlimited numbers of keys, thus achieving the overlaying, for example network stats.

b) Generic Log Parser -

A simple class, which would receive a number of parameters, which would process the given filename, search through the file looking for specific search strings, errors etc, and then if the line of the file contains search string, log these and x number of lines before and after to a mysql db.
The parser should also be able to resume from x lines down to continue firewall logs, /var/log/messages etc, and use an intelligent method of detecting the moved file. So it deals with log rotation

c) Generic Network Monitor -

A class, which when called via function would connect to the specified host on port number, and send a string, and recieve the results, like a send, expect scenario. however, we would like to take this a few steps further, and analyse and store information based on the results.

Typical scenario is monitoring a web site. it sends a request for a url.
the class would 'know' via switch() of a list of ports, e.g. 80. and would run further the following additional analysis:

calculate and store...

connection response time
size of data transferred
network speed/latency
server response time/speed/latency
http server errors

Anon

So I guess you couldn't find a contractor willing to do this for £1500, so you thought you'd try to find some "willing" participants on the internet by making it into a challange.

I don't know about other people but my time is valuable and I'm not about to waste what I can sell to participate in a "contest" that is just a thinly veiled attempt to get cheap labor for your company.

cordex

Actually, I think this is an interesting method of attempting to get a job done. My only concerns would lie with the method and guarentee of payment. Yeah, they'll probably get the work done for less then if they contracted it out to a consulting firm but on the other hand, the code will probably be a little less clean. And, hey, if you happen to know how to do a part of it pretty quickly, you can pick up an easy $730.
But if you (like me) don't want to take murpheous up on his offer, that's fine. Let some less experienced coders take the job and make some cash.

Anon

I agree with you, but I don't agree with the method being taken. If he'd come here and said look I need these things done, and I'm looking to contract someone in the UK to do it for £500 each, it'd be a different story.

But he's comming here and saying hey do this work and give it to me, and if it's the first one I recieve that works I'll pay you a prize (that is actually a contract payment with all of the laws that come with that).

So someone could spend some time working on one of these projects and turn it in only to find that someone beat them to it and they get nothing for their time. I just think that it's not the right way to get someone to work for you.

murpheous

Thankyou both for your comments.

NO way do i wish to start a flame war, either mail, here or anywhere.
If my post came across as a contest, then i apologise, this was not intended.
Although everyone is granted a right to their own opinion, which of course I respect, in this instance I do not agree with you.

Simply we have a resource problem, far too much work, never enough time. Nor do we seem to be able to locate competent developers in the field required locally, at least not enough.

So, I thought up this (what i thought) was a great idea - there are loads of php developers about, contractors, unemployed or whatever. Why not OFFER the work out to them. (ppl not working, do contracting etc. )

It puts money back in the pockets of the needy, helps us get our job, and everyone lives happy-ever after! 🙂

My offer is legit! Payment can be made via common methods such as CC, wire transfer etc...

In heinsight, the ONLY change to the offer, is that I make available or post to anyone the status of these initial 3, so that no one does any work un-necessarily.

Thanx.