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I don't get it- can you give an example of a 'seed'? Sounds interesting.

HelloTiago 12y ago
A blog post, a video, a tutorial, something written by you that's shared someplace else.
thibaut_barrere 12y ago
Sure - here are concrete example of seeds. I call them seeds because you have to realize that they will take time to give fruits. This is not an emergency technique. Blog posts: from time to time, I was writing an article on my (now defunct but soon restarted) technical blog. It is currently offline but you can have a look here [1]. I created linkable content that got some coverage, and some of my former customers saw the blog and it created credibility to them. Videos: similarly, I've tried since I think 2009 to give at least one talk per year. It has to be recorded and available on the web afterwards. Even on small topics, in small events to get started. Some video examples: - https://speakerdeck.com/thbar/transforming-data-with-ruby-and-activewarehouse-etl https://speakerdeck.com/thbar/transforming-data-with-ruby-an... (video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW863DOXqZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW863DOXqZQ) => people contacted me afterwards to do ETL work - on bootstrapping https://speakerdeck.com/thbar/retour-dexperience-sur-le-bootstrapping-de-wisecash-produit-saas https://speakerdeck.com/thbar/retour-dexperience-sur-le-boot... (video at vimeo.com/85490636) => people asked me to help them build SaaS afterwards You can also just tweet useful, non opinion-oriented tweets and links, and grow an audience this way (I have around 1460 followers http://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere http://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere but started much lower). People looking for skills will find you this way etc. Hope this helps! [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20121031083446/http://blog.logeek.fr/ http://web.archive.org/web/20121031083446/http://blog.logeek...
- vram22 12y ago
  That was a good video you made about ETL.
  - thibaut_barrere 12y ago
    Thank you!
- collyw 12y ago
  Does anyone know a good blogging platform to include code examples (without messing around with Javascript)? I tried google blogger, but code did not come out nicely, and it tries to do its own formatting when you save.
  - thibaut_barrere 12y ago
    I've settled with Jekyll (static), hosted on S3. I'm using prism.js at the moment but will probably move the code examples to embedded github gists.

A blog post, a video, a tutorial, something written by you that's shared someplace else.

Sure - here are concrete example of seeds. I call them seeds because you have to realize that they will take time to give fruits. This is not an emergency technique. Blog posts: from time to time, I was writing an article on my (now defunct but soon restarted) technical blog. It is currently offline but you can have a look here [1]. I created linkable content that got some coverage, and some of my former customers saw the blog and it created credibility to them. Videos: similarly, I've tried since I think 2009 to give at least one talk per year. It has to be recorded and available on the web afterwards. Even on small topics, in small events to get started. Some video examples: - https://speakerdeck.com/thbar/transforming-data-with-ruby-and-activewarehouse-etl https://speakerdeck.com/thbar/transforming-data-with-ruby-an... (video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW863DOXqZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW863DOXqZQ) => people contacted me afterwards to do ETL work - on bootstrapping https://speakerdeck.com/thbar/retour-dexperience-sur-le-bootstrapping-de-wisecash-produit-saas https://speakerdeck.com/thbar/retour-dexperience-sur-le-boot... (video at vimeo.com/85490636) => people asked me to help them build SaaS afterwards You can also just tweet useful, non opinion-oriented tweets and links, and grow an audience this way (I have around 1460 followers http://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere http://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere but started much lower). People looking for skills will find you this way etc. Hope this helps! [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20121031083446/http://blog.logeek.fr/ http://web.archive.org/web/20121031083446/http://blog.logeek...

vram22 12y ago
That was a good video you made about ETL.
- thibaut_barrere 12y ago
  Thank you!
collyw 12y ago
Does anyone know a good blogging platform to include code examples (without messing around with Javascript)? I tried google blogger, but code did not come out nicely, and it tries to do its own formatting when you save.
- thibaut_barrere 12y ago
  I've settled with Jekyll (static), hosted on S3. I'm using prism.js at the moment but will probably move the code examples to embedded github gists.