Do you sell your expertise or is this blog it?

Of course, I need to feed my geek offspring! In all seriousness, I do have my own business, IT Liberty LLC. I started that back in 1999 providing hosting, domain names, dialup, email etc. The bulk of the business was dialup back then, but now has been concentrating primarily on code writing and consulting as I have made the decision not to get into the highly competitive DSL market.

I have used sites like guru.com to bid out side jobs, but again that is very competitive as many business owners are rooked into the low hourly bid and get robbed in the end. I have had so many clients tell me that in the end it was cheaper to get it done right with me than to wait forever as someone overseas muddled through it. One client in particular actually gave the same job to myself and an overseas company. My hourly rate was 3 times higher, however I provided a ceiling price (as I always do) whereas their's was open-ended.

To make a long story short, the overseas company extended the project twice. I wrapped up in the agreed timeframe and ended up considerably cheaper. The client later stated that it was about a 1 hr (me) to 4 hrs (them) ratio. So I was actually cheaper - not to mention I provided fully commented code (at his request) for ease of integration as his ultimate goal was to hire a fulltime coder.

All of this to say that yes, I do sell code, services, etc. What you will find at http://www.askthecomputergeek.com/code.php are chunks of code anyone can easily integrate into their site. I am currently building this portion of the site, but the most popular piece I am always getting requests for is there - cheap! It is authentication code and not some thrown together code, but rather a MD5 hashed, session based authentication system to create easily a "members" type of area within your own site.

There will be more to come so check it out or feel free to get in touch with me from the contact page at the same site - http://www.askthecomputergeek.com/contact_us.php.