best way to find quality developers?

[MuGeN]

does anyone have any experience in hiring developers? One of our developers was actually hired after watching his posts for a while on here and after realising he knew his stuff and was local we bought him on board...

i realise that was a bit of a long shot though could anyone advice a better method to get hold of experienced quality developers?

we're after a php/database/javascript wizard ideally

 

[MuGeN]

Remember to always do a 3-6 month trial period in the employment conditions.

absolutely

 

[MuGeN]

i've put the job on a few dev forums, nothing worth noting yet though...

reckon any of the big boys like monster.com are worth a look? if so which one do you think would attract more developer types?

in fact, would i be allowed to post a job on here? i kinda doubt i'm allowed but the fact is loads of the people that come on here would make great employees? if not no worries still interested in the monster vs. others question...