Announcing PIaaS - Python Interviewing as a Service

Hello, readers,

Announcing Python Interviewing as a Service:

I'm now officially offering PIaaS - Python Interviewing as a Service. I have done it some earlier, informally, for clients. Recently a couple of companies asked me for help on this again, so I am now adding it to my list of offered services, the others being consulting (software design and development, code review, technology evaluation and recommendation) and software training.

I can help your organization interview and hire Python developer candidates, offloading (some of) that work from your core technical and HR / recruitment staff.

I can also interview on related areas like SQL and RDBMS, and Unix and Linux commands and shell scripting.

I have long-term experience in all the above areas.

To hire me for PIaaS or to learn more about it, contact me via the Gmail address on my site's contact page.

- Vasudev Ram

My Codementor profile: Vasudev Ram on Codementor

Freelancer site oDesk to merge with Elance

By Vasudev Ram

Saw the news via this Hacker News post:

oDesk to merge with Elance

And here is the linked announcement:

SOME BIG NEWS: oDESK TO MERGE WITH ELANCE (caps theirs)

The Hacker News thread has various people mentioning pros and cons.

- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises

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Dancing Bison Enterprises - Profile

               Dancing Bison Enterprises - Profile

Dancing Bison Enterprises is a small software company based in Pune, India.

We have done projects for USA-, Europe- and India-based clients in Python, Ruby on Rails, C, Java, PDF and other technologies. We have good skills and experience in Python, C, UNIX/Linux, Java, Ruby, relational databases, PDF creation, and multiple open source technologies, and in software requirements analysis, design and implementation. Development of robust software applications and components is our forte. Open source technologies and UNIX/Linux are two of our key areas of strength - we have been working with UNIX from some time before Linux was first created, and with open source software from before the term "open source" was coined. Have many years of software development experience, including both working with large international and Indian software companies and with small companies, including startups based both abroad and in India.

Please visit our business web site www.dancingbison.com for an overview about us.

The founder of the company, Vasudev Ram, is a nominated / elected member of the Python Software Foundation.

Developed multiple open source software products/projects - please see our Products page , and our Bitbucket page . More such products are in the pipeline.

Packt Publishing of the UK uses our Python product, xtopdf, in their book production workflow. The Software Freedom Law Center of the USA also uses xtopdf as part of their e-discovery work.

Published technical articles on Python, C and Linux; please see:

Using xtopdf (on the Packt Publishing site)

Developing a Linux command-line utility (on the IBM developerWorks site)

A vi quickstart tutorial (in Linux For You magazine)

How Knoppix saved the day (in Linux For You magazine)

Our article on Developing a Linux command-line utility - the 2nd link in the list of articles above - was published on IBM developerWorks, and translated by IBM for the Chinese and Japanese versions of their developerWorks site. More than one organization has used the article as a basis for developing production command-line tools.

We are available for web or non-web application development, open source and related consulting/contract work, and for corporate software training in the areas of our skills.

Please visit our Contact page to get in touch with us or to request a quote.

Billing as a consultant - good thread on HN

Quit My Job For Consulting: Two Months Later | Hacker News

Consultants have a lot of implicit costs (that employees don't) which they should take into account when deciding what rate to quote.