Do it yourself or get someone else to do it?
October 20th, 2007 by GregAs many of you know I have been wanting to learn PHP but as of yet I have not managed to get myself motivated enough to do it.
Anyway two weeks ago I thought I would post a project on Scriptlance to get someone to develop aPHP script for me. It was for a site clone and I thought if I get someone two write it in PHP it should be completed quicker and I could look at the code and learn from it.
Well the programmer I chose said it would take him 14 days, I thought OK, I could do it in perl quicker but I want to learn PHP so that is good for me.
For the past week the programmer has been saying he will be able to show me something ‘tomorow’, but has not done so, the 14 days is up tomorow, and I asked him if the project will be completed and he has asked for a few more days.
I still have not seen anything to demonstrate that he is doing the work or how far he has got, I have had very little communication from him and I am concerned that this project is going to drag on and in fact it would have been quicker for me to pick up my PHP books and do the job myself.
I am going to give him the extra few days but if he delays any longer I am going to have to seriously consider whether I should do it myself. We will wait and see.
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