Comments on: Want a new $$$ stream for your Rails consulting business?

By: topfunky

topfunky — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:21:47 +0000

Is this also useful for making £££? How about ¥¥¥?

Is there any possibility of earning twice that, i.e. $$$$$$?

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:07:52 +0000

Err Free now offers Blog Post Auditing, btw. thx.

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:37:13 +0000

@pj - my aim in life is to destroy the “err” boys. “Footnote in history” and all that

By: PJ Hyett

PJ Hyett — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:24:57 +0000

Sure, give away our whole business…

By: Ben Kittrell

Ben Kittrell — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:38:02 +0000

Good call doc, I’ve actually recently been asked to do a code audit. I was thinking this might be a good service to offer as well. Since I’m still doing Java consulting full-time, it would be something I don’t need to dig into full force. I can make some cash money and keep my skills sharp.

By: Kevin Marsh

Kevin Marsh — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:44:56 +0000

Doing just this has actually been really popular for me. It’s much more cost effective for the customer to just get a nudge rather than a complete rewrite and it doesn’t take nearly the time or effort to look at code than it does write.

I’ve found that because Rails is so easy and accessible, a lot of beginners try it and make a lot of classic mistakes that hurt them when they reach production (not eager loading associations, bad database structure, etc.) so code auditing is a way to mentor budding coders while maintaining a decent margin.

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:24:21 +0000

I can’t go into detail, but from some things I’ve heard, it seems code audits should almost be made mandatory in Rails development with some of the nastiness bringing database servers to their knees

By: Dr Nic

Dr Nic — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:51:34 +0000

@michael - it’d be very difficult for me to select “Unintended Irony”. Perhaps I need a 3rd party to select my categories for me. But then I might end up with categories like “Boring”, “Too long”, etc… I’d need an auditor for the category selector person.

Nonetheless, I do think “code audits” are an interesting service to offer.

By: Michael Schuerig

Michael Schuerig — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:45:41 +0000

I think you need a category for Irony. Possibly even a further one for Unintended Irony.