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I taught myself Rails in 8 weeks, and launched this: Freelancify
- zachinglis 15y agoKnowing your previous skill and knowledge would give more context. Did you know any other languages? etc
- james-fend 15y agoYep. I was a designer for a few years before, so I knew html/css from scratch. Had absolutely no clue about programming when I started. I will probably make a blog post detailing exactly how my progress was here a bit later.
- TheSeb 15y agoTake a look at the comment formatting, see for example: https://www.freelancify.com/projects/1-craigslist-search-scrape-emails-program https://www.freelancify.com/projects/1-craigslist-search-scr... . The app does not replace new lines with <br />s or <p></p>s.
- TheSeb 15y agoMight be a good idea to auto-link urls in the comments as well: https://github.com/tenderlove/rails_autolink https://github.com/tenderlove/rails_autolink
- james-fend 15y agothat's true too. Thanks again.. I'll prob try to get that implemented today as well.
- TheSeb 15y agoCool :). Forgot to say that it's a really solid site. I'm definitely impressed by the fact that you've picked up Rails so fast and implemented that entire site. Good work!
- james-fend 15y agoYes, thanks for pointing that out! Going to try to get that fixed today! Thanks for the suggestion!!
- TheSeb 15y agoAnd while I'm still at it: Why can't I both hire workers and bid for projects using one account? Say that I want to outsource some work on my project x while still wanting to bid on someone's project y?
- james-fend 15y agogreat question. would be nice to do that, going to have to somehow implement that here in the next weeks.
- serkanh 15y agoIf you dont mind sharing, how do you handle escrows?