How to Make One Thousand Two Hundred Ninety Seven Dollars and Thirty Six Cents with DFHU

To follow up to the “How to Hire a Coder” Post, I would like to offer you the chance to work with me personally, FOR FREE.

Do you have an idea for a cool and marketable IM/SEO related web application?

Think, Internet Marketing or Search Engine Optimization tools that could be sold on DFHU.oRG.

Here is the deal: Lots of people who are newer to IM have some really cool ideas for Widgets, Web-Apps, Plugins, etc… but for whatever reason they do not get them made (maybe they wish to invest their dollars elsewhere or may not yet have built the confidence).

Many times people have me create a widget for them, they use it, make some good money with it’s utility, but fail to go the next step and make money off the widget itself.

If you have an idea for a widget that you think can be sold on places like dfhu.org then you could make some monies.

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How to Find High Quality and Affordable Programmers.

Fact: Hiring a programmer sucks; everyone has horror stories. Good, affordable programmers are rare and very often constantly booked solid.

Fact: I am a programmer and some of the tips I will give will probably cramp programmers style (ironically, including my own).

If you have ever talked to me in person about business, chances are I have at some point told you that if I was ever to create an info product it would be on just this subject. As of now I don’t have any serious plans to do so and I would rather help you folks out instead of hording the information.

Fair warning this post will not go into wear to find programmers, but instead focus on how to screen a list of canidates once you have them.

Hint: Standards.

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When Should You Use a Web Framework Such as CakePHP, Pylons, etc…?

I would like to discuss a few good reasons you or your web developer should use or not use a web framework.

Web Development frameworks have taken off since the release of Ruby on Rails (RoR).

Some other frameworks that have come along are CakePHP, CodeIgniter (PHP) and Pylons (Python).

The basic goal of web frameworks is to increase the quality and speed of development by giving a collection of tools and methodologies that build on an existing language.

Or in short write better code, faster.

But what is the reality and when should a framework be used?

I will focus on PHP and Python frameworks because those are the ones I know best.

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Five More Free High PageRank/TrustRank DoFollow Links

Here is another cheap shot of a post, free links, everyone loves free links.

I think they are even more quality than the last five I posted, especially the last one, which is just pure gold.

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Catch More Juice With Link Circumcision

Although this seems like SEO 201, I still see many, many sites (including this one) not dealing with ill-formed auto-generated links. By “auto-generated” I mean like links inside email clients, message boards, social sites, etc… which automagically turn URLS into links. This results in 404s on your site and a lose to link love.

Dealing with the most common cases is a pretty easy and I will show how can be done with mod_rewrite and PHP.

As an added bonus I include a handy little tool to write unit tests to check your redirects, even if you don’t circumcise your links.

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