anti — Mon, 19 Jul 1999 21:41:00 +0000

Hi,

you could use a blob for images,
however I don't recommend this,
if you serve lot's of images it will increase your load heavily.

An approach I took some time for a customer was to put
the images in the database, but extract them into flat-files once every day via a cron-job. The images were then served directly by apache and not via apache->mod-perl->mysql.

just my 2cent.

ciao
Anti

btw:
blobs are described in chapter 7.2.7.2 in the mySQL-reference.

jodys — Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:52:00 +0000

by the way how do you add images to a mysql database

Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:11:00 +0000

You should be charging about US$100/hr. for the type of programming that you are going to be doing. It is a very competitive rate in the market. For what this client is looking for, he should be expecting to pay upwards of $5,000. Anti gave every bit of advice you could ask for! You really need to look at all of the legal stuff involved and don't cut yourself short!

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anti — Fri, 18 Jun 1999 21:54:00 +0000

Hi,
that depends heavily on your location, but here in germany I would do the following.

1. Charge 500$ for an evaluation (should be about 5 hours).
2. Negotiate the _exact_ requirements and prereqs.
(What does he want. What does he supply.)
Let him sign that !!!
3. Calc how long it would take you.
4. Calc the price (hours*100$*5).
5. Make the offer. Do not drop the price below hours*100$*3 !!
6. Include a service-option in the contract (~150-200$ per hour).

This values seem high, but compared to "usual market-prices" you are as cheap as can be.

My boss "borrows" me to other companys for about 200$/hour, but only if you buy over six weeks.

Make sure the contract is clean.
Don't start before the contract is signed.
Invest some money into an attorney.

I'm not doing the pricing in my company, but I lived from jobs like that for 5 years.

ciao
Anti
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