Developing a C# Webcrawler

[Logician]

I am looking for some help and I wondered if any C# gurus had some
suggestions.

I have tried contacting some Indian companies via email and also I
have placed projects at rentacoder.com and odesk.com. I lost 800 USD
at rentacoder after a man started the work and then just gave up
without anything completed.

I am using the code at Heaton Research for a basis - see
http://www.heatonresearch.com/download/. It seems developers find the
work too hard.

[Peter Morris]

My suggestion is to at least explain what the problem is, not what problems
you've experienced along the way :-)

[David H]

On Aug 11, 10:35*am, "Peter Morris" <[e-mail]:

My suggestion is to at least explain what the problem is, not what problems
you've experienced along the way :-)

*OFF-TOPIC*

Just wanted to let you know this has become my quote of the day. I'm
going to print this and tape it up. Applicable to this situation and
so many more..:)

[Logician]

On Aug 11, 4:35*pm, "Peter Morris" <[e-mail]:

My suggestion is to at least explain what the problem is, not what problems
you've experienced along the way :-)

The problem is that good people are in high demand and they earn a lot
of money. Getting them is hard. The work is generally too hard for
most developers. So the issue is one of finding someone who is
talented and willing to work for less money. Indian development is the
normal route under these conditions but I am finding that people just
find the work too hard to do.

This problem is fairly standard and that is why people take in venture
capital.

[lorenzo1701]

Hello Logician,
I'd recommend that you try posting a project on Elance. They've got a
large number of C experts http://www.elance.com/php/landing/ma...p?skill_id=193
who would be able to consult with you using the Heaton Research code,
and the feasibility of completing it using your existing code to date
or starting it from scratch.

[Ken Foskey]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:20:26 -0700, Logician wrote:

Escrow works on a task basis and I split the larger task into smaller
ones, trusting the developer. Small tasks were paid as some work was
done. The larger task was never completed, and half-done incomprehensive
code is useless. Several other developers looked at the half done code
and said it was impossible to complete.

It is a rare programmer that can take a half done job and turn it into a
complete system. It is a knack being able to understand the intent of
code already written and then add what is needed. If the job is
halfbaked then you are better off throwing the whole thing.

If you spec a process that does one part completely and is testable then
get that done you are at least in the right direction.

Ken

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

Logician wrote:

On Aug 11, 4:35 pm, "Peter Morris" <[e-mail]:

>My suggestion is to at least explain what the problem is, not what problems
you've experienced along the way :-)

The problem is that good people are in high demand and they earn a lot
of money. Getting them is hard. The work is generally too hard for
most developers. So the issue is one of finding someone who is
talented and willing to work for less money. Indian development is the
normal route under these conditions but I am finding that people just
find the work too hard to do.

This problem is fairly standard and that is why people take in venture
capital.

If you want the best people you need to pay what they want !

Why should they work for less than their market value ?

Arne