mrfish

I want to know what is your current most successful strategy for getting good side jobs? i.e. Do you have an Elance or Guru account? Do you comb craigslist for postings that are legit?

And what are some of the hurdles you are faced with that you have overcome? i.e. How to detect a client on craigslist won't pay...etc.

The reason I ask is I want to make a site similar to Elance but for local developers to compete against the craigslist people. With support by it's own developer community (i.e. developers are the moderators not moron staff). Also I have experience working for local recruiters and I want to use them to get jobs as well. Thoughts???

Also if anyone has any good ideas on how to do escrow without sucking at it please let me know.

I love to make fun UI's with Javascript. I primarily use jquery because it is well documented with examples and works across multiple browsers, it's easy and I havn't learned the other frameworks enough to give it a fair comparison. Comparied to native Javascript, I know what the benefits are and recently I've been exposed to Mootools which appears on the surface to have less functions.

So my question is, what's the difference? and when would I choose one over the other?