Episode 34 - How Not to Hire a Developer                                     

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Mikel Berger from Delmar Information Technologies joins us on the podcast to discuss how not to approach a developer. We discuss the various types of clients and how to handle them. You’ll be laughing out loud when you hear what we have to say becuase you have no doubt run into a few of these clients.

• The “I have an idea and if you write all the code and do everything I’ll split 50% of the revenue with you” guy
• The “do you know a good student” guy
• The “I’m sure this is simple for someone like you” guy
• The “we must use X technology” guy (where X is the totally wrong technology but his distant relative suggested it)
• The “the first version must every possible feature and scale for a million users” guy
• The “let’s not discuss my budget” guy
• The “you must sign my NDA before we talk” guy
• The “I need this 6 month project done in 2 months” guy
• The “you need to make my crappy software less crappy” guy

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2. The Pastry Box Project
3. TinyPNG – Compress PNG images while preserving alpha transparency
4. 2012 — Node.js Knockout
5. Action.IO