services wanted Developers in Winnipeg

[Len in Winnipeg]

Are there any developers in winnipeg?

[David McQueen]

Hmm .... It would appear not from the date span.

Try telling people more of what you are trying to do.You might get more responses.

Also, there are Canadian developers who routinely work remotely (myself included - shameless self promotion here), that could possibly either help on a project or give good advice through the forum.

[Len in Winnipeg]

Thanks for the reply David

I have several projects going on right now, but the one that is the most demanding started out as an asset management solution to track signage specs and information for one of our larger clients.

On the promotional side of this account it has grown to become an order processing tool for a weekly kit that we produce. Since the success of this it has been requested, on the permanent side of this account, that the client have the ability to submit requests for quotes, and eventually submit an entire store order.

The database is currently hosted remotely and users from winnipeg, calgary and vancouver log onto and use.

What I am looking for is some help. I have been promoted within the company and this is one of the functions that has followed me, but I do not have the amount of time this project deserves to devote to this. I do have a fellow in training, but this is far beyond his capabilities.

Further to this, the last year I have been developing on "the fly" and there may be some additional challenges to the completion of the solution.

[David McQueen]

The first euphamism that comes to mind is that " Your plate is full".

The second one that comes to mind is "It is like herding cats up a ladder while being pursued by several small animals with sharp teeth."

The key issues I see here are:

1. The solutions are in production.

2. If I am reading correctly, they are served over a WAN, which has it's own challenges. If served to the web, this is another set of challenges altogether.

3.Away from the technical side, there is a business attribute of exposure to be considered. They are being viewed by your public, not just internally. That leads to a far smaller forgiveness factor with ongoing development. One really does not want to tick off one's customers at any point inthe game.

4. They are a fairly good size.

5. They are populated with real business data.

You have some choices:

1. Try posting closer to home. If you like, I will post out, or you can post out to ehMac.ca. This is a Canadian Mac site. I know there are a couple of developers who frequent there. From what I can see, they are in Ontario, but there may be people closer lurking.

2. You can send your guy for training. This is probably a good thing anyway, but I do not know what training aside from experience fills the bill for issue #3 and perhaps #4 and #5.

3. Hire someone to work remotely. Upside - You can pick from around the world. Downside - You want to have your ducks in a row with regards to ongoing communications. You can't just look over the guy's/girl's shoulder to see how he/she is doing. It must be proactive from both sides.

4. Keep going it alone. Upside, you know what you will have. Your internal guy will pick up experience as you go. Downside, it is going to take some time.

Let me know if you want me to post out for you. Feel free to contact me at

[email protected]

If nothing else, I can give you some procedures that seem to work when dealing with remote work.