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>> Some people wake up in the morning and say "today I want to be a chef", but they are not a chef until they learn how to cook - no company would employ a chef that couldn't cook.

what the analogy.

yes. hiring him is sure a burden, financially + time killer too. we won't be able to do both, neither teach him nor could do our work. it is distractive when someones interrupts your work asking something so stupid, you never thought that silly even when you were just - printf hello world. i will rather be referring him to other suitable works.

i am getting more confidence that i would handle the situation with ease, thanks.

he yet has not been told that we are not interested in hiring him. actually he is getting some wrong idea that we are "wow" since we are trying to work something out on our own. we want to work more and without any non interested learning/teaching sessions. telling him what you said here would work, i guess. thanks for the tips.

agreed and it's even easier to start with just you and your idea.

you hit the ground... never stop building on your ideas, keep up the spirit.

Wordpress - for content management stuffs

CodeIgniter - web app development

Javascript, jQuery for interactivity and AJAX

I see you changed some stuffs today. good to know you are shaping it. i even signed up just for the sake to test it. why you think would people sign up there to just leave out their contact info - and do you care if the contact info is valid?

here are some thoughts

with just search box i don't see any contacts at first visit, add some clue that i will get people's profile using search (don't do that with that one paragraph of text). you can list people's name with profile link in place of the text you are showing below search box (manage this text somewhere with Help??? link). you can work on yammer or LinkedIn like email verification. don't list contacts unless they are from verified domains. make browsing contacts more visible - allow peoples to tag their info and allow browsing by tags too. don't show actual email in plain text on public listing. and when i update settings, info is getting replicated check that too.

good luck. John Doe

"work now and talk later"

this is just dead simple lesson in theory but why it takes time to actually practically feel this?

i think i will read and re-read only this post for few days. no more popurls.

what about a ruler ?

domain and the idea seems a bit unmatched in my view. wildcard support is nice. what features are you planning to add?

Here's what i would like to say on your pros and cons list.

P: 1. open source code is exposed to the whole bunch of users doesn't necessarily mean the code will end up unsecured, let's take it as we get lots of contributor around to find and patch those security holes. 2. once you get working with PHP frameworks understanding the code will be easy. 3. why not bother looking at the framework code if you get benefits on every work onwards?

C: 1. Most of the frameworks follow MVC separation, understanding that takes time, once you get the idea, writing code and using your existing code as plugins/libraries to the framework will be super easy. 2. The whole community is contributing, it will just take few posts in community forums or few minutes of googling to find the feature you are looking for. if you ended up coding the feature yourself, give it back to community. that is how you become part of the community and how the frameworks grow.

In situation when you need to hire someone to work on your codebase, use of available opensource frameworks will save a lot.

i will suggest any one of these frameworks to work with: https://github.com/tylerhall/simple-php-framework (structured code) http://codeigniter.com (easy to start with, very good documentation) http://www.symfony-project.org/ (nice documentation yet steep learning curve, once you get it as easy as CodeIgniter)

i personally appreciate your approach too, that is a lot of effort you put there, but if you don't feel like using frameworks such as Symfony/CodeIgniter etc.. at least you may want to workout your code in the MVC or HMVC structure.

yes, as @davorak said cultural changes doesn't happen overnight. also, "starting small and expanding - that's a good thought."

we started with events on occasion of global events like celebrating open source day, wiki days or other global happening, getting support from the organizing bodies. they are now performed yearly after we graduated.

don't forget to include geeks from your junior circle. since they will be the one to continue your effort after you graduate. what we will do is convey the message about the geek/community culture, collaboration culture. feeling depressed why other students don't think that way is completely waste of time, get over it.

good to know you got PS CS5 to play with. i suggest you google few hours for web2.0 design theories and concepts, like - how to create web2.0 effects with photoshop, glossy text/image effects, reflections effects, how to create nice gradients. watch videos, listen podcasts, go through listapart articles if you have time http://www.alistapart.com/topics/design/ tune up your design concepts first.

you can practice with vandelaydesign photoshop tutorials list. http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/photoshop-tutorials/ choose the one easy for you to begin with.

and once you master these basic skills, you can then search for "design inspiration" around the web to see how other designers are making web beautiful. when you understand the design principles, design tool becomes just a matter of choice. all the best.