I have some general questions relating to a programming project for a startup,
and someone suggested this might be a good place to post them.
A guy I know is involved with a start-up and they need to have a commercial
router reprogrammed for their specific needs. (I can’t address the why’s or
reprogramming a router with a new OS is fairly straight forward. There are
several Open Firmware projects (including dd-wrt) that can work. I have had
experience with most of the commodity stuff and also messed with dd-wrt more
than once.
if you want, I can send along a copy of my resume (as I
I've been involved in two startups, and I won't "say" run away, but you
know I'm thinking it.
First startup had a great product - a virtual mall coded in flash
designed for dial-up modems (33kbps!) and looked fantastic. Problem was
it was written by a couple 18-year-old whiz kids who didn't kn
I will second the documentation comments here. At the office we dealt with
a bunch of programmers that were given their head and there is such a black
hole of knowledge about what is doing what. Not that the relationship ended
the code is ours but the leftover kludge is takeoff more time to deciphe
I'll 3rd on documentation... even if you do it yourself.
Startups like to cut corners because they don't have any money. No matter
what you do make sure they take the time to document (George Toft said it
perfectly). I've yet to regret spending a day creating a 200 page document
outlining all of
Ok, got it on the docs! Thanks!
FWIW, way back in the day, I was laid off of a job in part because the Powers
that Be thought I wasn’t doing anything substantive. I ran into one of them a
year later who fessed up and apologized, saying that as a result of my leaving,
two projects died and two
ROTFL!
Words to live by. All that George said is excellent, but I had a good
laugh at this:
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[mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of George
Toft
Also, it's fun to do destructive testing and put sc
or of 2 is probably impossible without a VERY good specification.
From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of JD Austin
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 7:05 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: looking for some project advice for
Wow, this reply was sent long before the other replies by others that
were much better than my reply...
And then, as soon as I sent my other reply, based on JD's email, THAT
reply came through almost immediately. Weird. Oh, well!
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