Free Microsoft .NET Consulting
Non-profit/Non Governmental Organizations
I am interested in helping out non-profits and NGO's. If you would like me to
architect, build, and host your IT solutions then please fill out the form
below and I will contact you. I am especially interested in non-profits that
advocate animal rights and NGO's that help to expose human rights violations in
the Middle East. Please tell me a bit about what your organization does in the
form below. There is absolutely no cost for anything at all. I do this because
I want to help (especially animal and middle-east human rights violations).
Startups/Other Businesses
If you are an early stage startup needing to get your idea to market quickly and inexpensively
then I may be interested in partnering with you in the role of architect/senior
developer. I have worked in several start-ups in Silicon Valley and know what
it takes to become successful and what to avoid to become another dot com
bomb.
A few of my startup-specific skills that I have to offer are:
- I can build a fault-tolerant web site including redundant, replicated databases for under $1995 + $99/month for synchronous 6 Kbps Internet pipe. This is the equivalent bandwidth of four T1’s per fault-tolerant location. This includes all hardware and using commodity pc's running enterprise-class WD Raptor hard drives.
Fault tolerance is achieved by running identical, replicated datacenters in two (or more) distant geographic locations.
- Ability to architect your application and perform the actual heads-down coding
- Ability to install, configure, and performance-tune your database servers including choosing the optimum RAID configuration, memory size, location of database and log files on each physical hard disk, indexes, optimizing the number of times stored procs are called from the application, optimizing the amount of data returned from stored procs, and much more.
- The same for your web servers, i.e. – activating HTTP gzip compression to reduce bandwidth usage or activating NCQ to boost operations per second.
- Ability to build farms of inexpensive yet fault-tolerant servers using commodity pc’s. This is the same model that Google uses.
- I have a personal network of highly skilled local developers as well as proven outsourced teams that cost as little as $12/hour (by bypassing their bodyshop and working with them directly).
- I have a complete datacenter with development/staging/production web and databases servers running SQL Server 2005 and Oracle 10g. I run the latest versions of VSS, Subversion, and Sourcegear Vault source control. Development machines run the latest version of Visual Studio 2005 plus my personal suite of helpfull tools I have collected over the years.
Tell me a little about your business model in the form below or if I need
to first sign your NDA (non disclosure agreement) then we can meet first. You
can read the skillset that I can offer you
HERE. I am especially interested in implementing mission-critical
enterprise class web based solutions and using
search engine optimization techniques to increase your Google rank and
traffic.
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Required reading if you are serious about startups and entreneurship
and if you want to be a programmer, read Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig.
and lastly, which platform should I base my website on (LAMP, Java, Ruby on Rails, or .NET).
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Derek Sivers, sole programmer and founder of CDBaby.com (second largest online record store in the world -- second only to Amazon)
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
AWFUL IDEA = -1
WEAK IDEA = 1
SO-SO IDEA = 5
GOOD IDEA = 10
GREAT IDEA = 15
BRILLIANT IDEA = 20
NO EXECUTION = $1
WEAK EXECUTION = $1000
SO-SO- EXECUTION = $10,000
GOOD EXECUTION = $100,000
GREAT EXECUTION = $1,000,000
BRILLIANT EXECUTION = $10,000,000
To make a business, you need to multiply the two.
By the way, Derek announced in January 2005 he and one the best Ruby on Rails programmers in the world (Jeremy Kemper aka bitsweat) would scrap over 100,000 lines of PHP code and rewrite from scratch to Rails.
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