Kale Franz kalefranz

Contracting Software Development

Core Assertion: The company owns the code, not the contractor.

If you're a contractor, why wouldn't you want to keep the actual source to yourself? You lock the company your contacting for into using your services in perpetuity. Good for the contractor; very bad for the company. My guess is that less-than-compentant and more "old school" contractors who aren't able to keep up with technology's pace will push this tactic for their own job security. But the contractor lock-in prevents the company from moving forward with their product using another contractor if the relationship sours with the current contractor. It also prevents the company from transitioning away from contract work to an in-house development team.

The rest of this document contains steps necessary to have the best chance for getting quality code from a contractor. I would consider each item mandatory. There are also plenty of "nice to haves," but I want to keep th

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	"""The Enum class here is a python27 port of the python34 Enum, but extended with extra
	functionality.

	TODO: The API should be a strict superset of the python34 Enum.

	"""

	from transcomm.common.crypt import as_base64, from_base64

	import time
	import uuid

	from boto.exception import S3ResponseError
	from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
	from boto.s3.key import Key


	def create_key():
	return str(time.time()) + '-' + uuid.uuid4().hex

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	import hashlib
	import json
	import logging
	import logging.handlers
	import os
	import shutil
	import sys
	import tempfile
	import urllib

	Host 10.32.. *.usw2.domain.site !10.32.220.14 !bastion.usw2.domain.site
	ServerAliveInterval 60
	TCPKeepAlive yes
	ProxyCommand ssh -q -A [email protected] nc %h %p
	ControlPersist 15m
	User username
	IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my_key
	ControlMaster auto
	ControlPath ~/.ansible/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r
	StrictHostKeyChecking no

Kale Franz kalefranz

Contracting Software Development

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