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I wrote a pretty well-received guide for exactly what you're doing here: http://gun.io/blog/how-to-hire-a-programmer/ http://gun.io/blog/how-to-hire-a-programme

by Mizza 15y ago

I wrote a pretty well-received guide for exactly what you're doing here: http://gun.io/blog/how-to-hire-a-programmer/ http://gun.io/blog/how-to-hire-a-programmer/ If you're already a technical person, you're probably 75% of the way there. The rest of the challenge is defining a scope early on in the project. I realize it's not very tactful to plug my own product here, but I run http://gun.io http://gun.io , which I think is exactly the right place to find the type of person you're looking for. We specialize in short-term gigs from the open source community, and there are thousands of talented open source programmers there waiting for new gigs to be posted. Shoot me an email if you'd like to know more! rich@gun.io

kls 15y ago
I realize it's not very tactful to plug my own product here I have always found HN to be the place to plug your product if it is relevant. My experience has been given the entrepreneurial nature of the site, that if a product is relevant and it's not a total marketing pitch then have at it. I just found out about StackMob the other day from a member plugging it, and I am happy he did, I found a backend provider that supports Clojure through his plug. I would say that I discover half of the cool stuff going on through plugs by people working on them on this site, the other half comes from the articles.
- Mizza 15y ago
  :) Well, now I feel less guilty! [Do people really run Clojure in production? That's pretty sweet, I thought it was just an experimental/AI language.]
  - kls 15y ago
    Don't want to side track too much, but yes, given that it is on the JVM and can bind to Java libs it's not too risky for production, that being said Clojure is slower than Java on the JVM so I would not use it where performance is critical (it's not that slow though). But for the majority of use cases it works just find. By no means is it experimental Clojure has the reputation of being the practical Lisp given it's ability to use the wealth of Java libs.

by Mizza 15y ago

kls 15y ago

I realize it's not very tactful to plug my own product here I have always found HN to be the place to plug your product if it is relevant. My experience has been given the entrepreneurial nature of the site, that if a product is relevant and it's not a total marketing pitch then have at it. I just found out about StackMob the other day from a member plugging it, and I am happy he did, I found a backend provider that supports Clojure through his plug. I would say that I discover half of the cool stuff going on through plugs by people working on them on this site, the other half comes from the articles.

Mizza 15y ago
:) Well, now I feel less guilty! [Do people really run Clojure in production? That's pretty sweet, I thought it was just an experimental/AI language.]
- kls 15y ago
  Don't want to side track too much, but yes, given that it is on the JVM and can bind to Java libs it's not too risky for production, that being said Clojure is slower than Java on the JVM so I would not use it where performance is critical (it's not that slow though). But for the majority of use cases it works just find. By no means is it experimental Clojure has the reputation of being the practical Lisp given it's ability to use the wealth of Java libs.