I've retained Jacque (as in J. Landman Gay) as a Rev consultant, on a
per-hour basis, on and off over the past few months. The job is
pretty much done now. Not only did she prepare my HC stacks for
transition to Rev, she also helped me to learn to fly on my own wings
in Rev. She was patient and resourceful. My stacks have grown quite
complex over the years, since I wrote the first simple one in HC 1.0.
Because I'm a self-taught do-it-yourself end-user, you can imagine
all the bad scripting practices to be found in my stacks. Complex
plus bad scripting practices = big headaches for the consultant. You
can imagine.
Anyway, she did a great job, technically, while patiently suggesting
better scripting practices, and otherwise treating me nice. The
stacks are all very stable, now. She was willing to work on my stacks
herself, or to be available as a consultant by email when I came
across stuff I couldn't fix. We did some of each. I don't really know
what the going rate is, but her fees seem quite reasonable.
The days I posted dumb questions on the list -- those weren't her
fault. That happened either before I retained her, or on the rare
days she wasn't available by email and I was impatient about fixing
some problem.
(BTW, the debugger anomaly, discussed last week, if anyone remembers
it, turned out to be a bug. It will only debug a bg script on card 1
of the background. I built a fresh, clean stack in 2.6.1 to confirm
it. It's been posted on BZ. That one wasn't dumb, contrary to my own
self-doubt.)
I guess other folks on this list also earn their daily bread as
self-employed X-talk consultants. I don't want to diminish their
ability by comparison. Judging by their messages on the list, they
know their stuff, too. This is just one endorsement for Jacque, from
one grateful client.
Cheers,
Tim Miller
--awww, what the heck--
Timothy Miller, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Stockton, CA
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