Jonathan Hartley <tart...@tartley.com> writes: > 2) About once a week the last couple of months I've had a friend phone > to say 'can you write me a simple program to do X', where X is stuff > like calling a web API to look up info for every postcode/zipcode in a > database. This sort of thing is ideally suited to Python, but then
ask 50 USD/program and after 20 times you can buy VC (if the quoted price of 1000 USD is correct). In the past I helped people for free on/via Usenet with Perl programming issues (via as in: they emailed me because of something I posted on Usenet). Ditto for people who emailed me for help after a visit to my site. The past 1.5 year or so I ask book(s)[1] in return for such help, and now I have to make a bookcase soon :-) > when I come to send the program to my friend, it never works. These > are non-technical users, so I'd rather send them a single executable > that 'just works', rather than asking them to install Python and then > coach them through running a script - they would HATE that as a > solution. So you provide a very good solution to them, and hence they shouldn't have any problem with paying for such a service. [1] really small stuff is 15 USD in books but everything above that is multiples of 35 USD/books. It's a nice way to create a library of technical books that way, while leaving plenty of room for books for leisure. -- John Bokma Read my blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Hire me (Perl/Python): http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
