I agree with seretogis thoughts and I'm in favor of a Programming forum. However, I've found that Google searches and experts-exchange.com give me 99% of the answers I need.
I recently posted a thread offering $$$ for someone to write an application in Java. I figured I'd offer the project to my fellow TFP'ers before putting it out for bid. I got a few responses offering to give me some free code snippets but no one else expressed any interest. I thought the lure of getting paid to program would have generated a flood of responses!
[ Side note: the project budget has increased from $500 to $2500. Any takers now?
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