Nov 27 2007
I’ll take that hourly rate
I stumbled across a site called Ohloh that analyses open source projects (e.g., on SourceForge) and provides some interesting statistics. The site has reviewed UrlRewriter.NET and found that it would take 3 person years and cost $170,085 to reproduce! Now, my records indicate I have barely spent over 100 hours on the development on the package. That would translate into an hourly rate of $1,700.85! Ohloh also reckons I wrote 14,023 lines of code in those 100 hours which is an amazing 140 LOC/h! Truth be told, I did benefit from a lot of copy-paste 
A quick check of how they arrive at this analysis deflates the balloon a bit:
- “We use a software costing model called COCOMO”… oh.
- “The model seems to be most accurate with mature, large projects. Young projects with little activity are typically very overvalued.”…oh well.
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