Where to get a good programmer for reasonable money?

I would say you will get quality people here in warrior for hire. However, since you want other options, did you check Elance and/or freelancer

Try the jobs section of craigslist.com.ph (and google for other Filipino job boards as well). I've had fantastic experiences with Filipinos and quite often you can get perfect quality for peanuts.

oDesk has been my best source so far. Better than Guru.

Agreed, oDesk is has the best outsourcing system in place, especially for programming projects. The prices there can be higher than if you were to hire here on WF, but with checks, tests, milestones and payment protection, it more than pays for itself in the long run.

Use oDesk to find a good match for your project and build a relationship with your programmer, if you're happy with his work, you can eventually put him on a retainer and renegotiate his fees. You can even offer him a full time position in your organization.

I have clients who outsource almost 90% of their business operations to oDesk, the only thing that oDesk is missing is a sales force... but we have affiliate programs for that

That being said, vworker and scriptlance are good alternatives as well. I've heard good things about freelancer, but I've only used them for design projects, not programming projects...

Hope this helps you...

Cheers,

Will

Finding a good programmer is hard. It took me years to find one and I got lucky! I have used the same programmer for almost 14 years and he is hands down one of the BEST programmers that exists in the world and costs me only $25 per hour. He is not located in the U.S., hence the $25 per hour cost. Years ago I paid much less.

The first 2 years of the 14 he was working for a company that I hired to created programs for me. He then later left and went out on his own and for 6 months the company searched for a programmer to replace him that could handle my needs and couldn't find a replacement that had the necessary skills and eventually gave me his contact info so that I could work directly with him. I have never used anyone else since then. Well, except for some php programs.

You also want to be very careful who you work with and have a contract with them that prevents them form taking your ideas and turning them into generic programs that they offer. I paid one U.S. company to make a program for me and about 6 month later they offered my program their label plus any custom programming fees to modify.

One other important thing that when you do hire a programmer is to not to assume they understand anything, You need to be very specific as how you expect things to work. The first time I hired a programmer I assume he understood things that were obvious to me. Well, I didn't receive the program that I was expecting. After that, my specs for any program was extremely detailed and every little aspect was fully explained and nothing was assumed to be understood.