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2012-09-26 Thread Dakota Burns
Hi CF Community - Been awhile since I've chatted here with you great people. I recently saw multiple tweets come across the wire re: #coldfusion from a "rural" oriented company advertising $47/hr for full time telecommute coldfusion work. After a short conversation with their HR, it turns out th

Re: Client's Primary Contact Wants "Free" Help

2011-12-12 Thread Dakota Burns
ou handle it. Lunch would be more appropriate > than dinner, and maybe you could suggest an additional person come along to > make it clear that it isn't a date. > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Erika L. Rich > wrote: > > > > > Leave it to Gel LOL > &

Re: Client's Primary Contact Wants "Free" Help

2011-12-12 Thread Dakota Burns
Funny! Wow ... long time since I've been single so didn't even consider that line of thought Vivec. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Vivec wrote: > > Is she cute? > Take her out to dinner and solidify ties. > *nod* *nod* > > ^_^ > > > ~~~

Re: Client's Primary Contact Wants "Free" Help

2011-12-12 Thread Dakota Burns
your checks. > > Always, always back your contact up. Don't leave your "money" in the hands > of what appears to me to be, from your description, a simple lower echelon > employee. > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Dakota Burns >wrote: > > > &g

Client's Primary Contact Wants "Free" Help

2011-12-12 Thread Dakota Burns
Hi - As an independent consultant (CF Dev, IT Consulting), I don't have a lot of people nearby to bounce ideas off, so thought I'd post here. I have this client that paid X amount of dollars last year. Earlier this year they hired a "trainee" to learn the ropes on-the-job and query me for paid a

Re: Ubuntu 10.10 ui

2010-10-29 Thread Dakota Burns
I setup my mother on Linux Mint a few versions back when I was tired of helping her out with antivirus related issues, and XP was a bit much for her. She loves Linux Mint! Set her up with a music player, Firefox, word processing, and VNC / SSH for me to remotely manage. Showed her the programs she

Re: Client Overdue on Payments

2009-04-10 Thread Dakota Burns
. clients!! ;o) ) Best - Dakota On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:58 AM, denstar wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Dakota Burns wrote: > ... > > Wish me luck, and best wishes to you all! > > Thanks for the story. Been an interesting read. :-) > > We're pulli

Re: Client Overdue on Payments

2009-02-13 Thread Dakota Burns
erage that you think you have, what's stopping them from > changing their DNS pointers on their Domain to point to someone else's > servers? > Do you control the domain as well? > > 2009/2/13 Dakota Burns > > > > > > > don't stand firm and tough, thou

Re: Client Overdue on Payments

2009-02-13 Thread Dakota Burns
ill Wheatley wrote: > > Yea i feel ya dakota. One of my bigger customers a couple months back had > to > slash their hosting with me to cut costs. Since they have been a customer > of > mine going on 10 years now i bent over backwards to help them. I think you > made the ri

Re: Client Overdue on Payments

2009-02-11 Thread Dakota Burns
Yummy ... love blueberry muffins!! On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Erika L. Walker wrote: > > Well, we are a cool place. By all means. :) > Welcome to the list. > /me passes over a batch of fresh blueberry muffins. > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Dakota Burns >

Re: Client Overdue on Payments

2009-02-11 Thread Dakota Burns
I believe you're right Michael. (All others have excellent points too.) Personally, in light of our economy, I think this company is likely to go bankrupt in the coming months. If they do rebound, they might value my service if I was one of those that stuck with them. At this point, I don't de

Re: Client Overdue on Payments

2009-02-11 Thread Dakota Burns
Excellent feedback -- thank you all for sharing your thoughts! I want to give notice and take the site down if they don't pay hosting, but -- after talking with them today, feel they really are in financial trouble, and "Mr. Nice Guy" here ... (or is "Gullable" a more accurate description), is co

Client Overdue on Payments

2009-02-11 Thread Dakota Burns
I have a large "big name" client in one of the luxury-goods industries, which I've been servicing for the past 4 years. They are currently overdue on two invoices, and soon to be three -- totaling $4k. Recently, my client became acquainted with another development firm through one of their de