Jacque's Great!

Timothy Miller gandalf at doctorTimothyMiller.com
Mon Jul 18 19:04:38 EDT 2005


I've retained Jacque (as in J. Landman Gay) as a Rev consultant, on a 
per-hour basis, on and off over the past few months. The job is 
pretty much done now. Not only did she prepare my HC stacks for 
transition to Rev, she also helped me to learn to fly on my own wings 
in Rev. She was patient and resourceful. My stacks have grown quite 
complex over the years, since I wrote the first simple one in HC 1.0. 
Because I'm a self-taught do-it-yourself end-user, you can imagine 
all the bad scripting practices to be found in my stacks. Complex 
plus bad scripting practices = big headaches for the consultant. You 
can imagine.

Anyway, she did a great job, technically, while patiently suggesting 
better scripting practices, and otherwise treating me nice. The 
stacks are all very stable, now. She was willing to work on my stacks 
herself, or to be available as a consultant by email when I came 
across stuff I couldn't fix. We did some of each. I don't really know 
what the going rate is, but her fees seem quite reasonable.

The days I posted dumb questions on the list -- those weren't her 
fault. That happened either before I retained her, or on the rare 
days she wasn't available by email and I was impatient about fixing 
some problem.

(BTW, the debugger anomaly, discussed last week, if anyone remembers 
it, turned out to be a bug. It will only debug a bg script on card 1 
of the background. I built a fresh, clean stack in 2.6.1 to confirm 
it. It's been posted on BZ. That one wasn't dumb, contrary to my own 
self-doubt.)

I guess other folks on this list also earn their daily bread as 
self-employed X-talk consultants. I don't want to diminish their 
ability by comparison. Judging by their messages on the list, they 
know their stuff, too. This is just one endorsement for Jacque, from 
one grateful client.


Cheers,


Tim Miller

--awww, what the heck--

Timothy Miller, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Stockton, CA



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