(The following post is mostly geared towards programmers in
Portland, Oregon, USA. However, I'd be happy to chat with anyone
who is interested.)


I am an independent technology consultant, mostly working on data-
driven Web application programming projects. I am looking to meet
fellow programmers who might be interested in sharing some of the
work I have coming down the pipeline. Before I bid on projects, I'd
like to try to line up a team of good people who can be involved
with me in these projects.

I need you to know ASP, VB/VBScript, HTML, JavaScript, and how to
connect a web app to a SQL Server, MSDE, or Access back-end. I'm
very slowly getting into the LAMP stack, but don't have time right
now to learn those tools. I am not in a position to train a novice,
but you don't have to be at my level -- you can be more or less
advanced. I've been a programmer for about 6 years, working at a
small software company until a few months ago when I decided to
become a consultant.

My preference would be to find those who pride themselves on their
people skills and organization. Intricate knowledge of the latest
ASP object model is less important in my work than some of the
intangible skills of a good programmer.

Eventually, I would like to create a company to support, improve,
and sell some of the software I/we create, and perhaps provide other
technology services. This company would be as non-hierarchical as
possible, with a dual focus of being a great place to work AND being
pragmatic about the market and customer needs. The company would
lean towards working with non-profits, community-based businesses,
and green/sustainable businesses.

If you are not interested in my ideas above about starting a
company, I'd stil be interested in talking to you about sharing the
workload on future projects.

Thanks!
Todd Robinson

toddsrobinson - at - yahoo - dot - com