Alan01252

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by Alan01252 14y ago
My Dad did exactly the same thing. He ran a steel company with profits of around £600,000 was offered ~£2 mill for the company and turned it down. The recession of the 1990's came and completely wiped out the steel/construction industry and
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My search engine optimisation secrets(alanhollis.com)
2 points by Alan01252 14y ago|0 comments
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Stumbled across this today, http://guru.sensiolabs.com . Seems to answer your question well!
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What I've learned as a developer in the last ten years.(alanhollis.com)
1 points by Alan01252 14y ago|0 comments
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I'm very very cautious with retainers. The stable income is nice to have, but at the same time you have to make sure the contract terms doesn't debilitate you from working with other clients / finding new clients. Guaranteeing an amount of
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by Alan01252 14y ago
This really comes down to confidence in your ability. I wrote http://myanimcalcam.com by myself. This site is definitely more complex than a standard Wordpress install, but didn't require a team. I also find adding features to existing si
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Mostly from home, some clients I've only spoken to via email, not even a skype call. Others I've had meetings at their offices, it all depends on the client. It's an interesting, in fact it's a fascinating way of working.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I am very impressed. I think some people have a natural "salesmen" inside them and when it comes to salary negotiation always do well. I don't feel I'm as fortunate, but am definitely working on it. :)
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by Alan01252 14y ago
When I say I'm not marketing myself correctly, it's exactly this point I'm talking about. At the moment my value add for my clients is my previous experience and my communication skills. I try to reply to emails as fast as I can, that alone
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I'd be interested to know how you sell git to your clients. I have listed all the positive benefits of version control in detail to my clients and still have the idea rejected due to it being an "unnecessary complication"...
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Thanks very much coob. It still needs a little more work doing to it before I'm happy with it. At the moment I've got my friends alpha testing it, and have got some good feedback. Hopefully I'll be confident enough to post a SHOW HN soon.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Banking/finance does seem to be the industry which breaks the standard, especially in London. I think I've mentioned here before, but I know a friend of a friend who supposedly earns £50k a year as a Java developer for a bank, but didn't kn
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I explain very clearly that I am not a designer right from the start. Again I've lost projects to digital agencies because of this, which is sad, and is another problem I'd like to solve but haven't yet. The biggest non programming skill I
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by Alan01252 14y ago
One person works on any one file at a time. To make sure you're working on the latest version you have to remember to download the latest copy from the live server. No I'm not joking, and yes I know how unbelievably terrible this is, but it
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Again this figure assumes that I've worked 9-5 Monday to Friday for six months. This has most definitely not been the case. As for the jobs advertised on sites like jobserve. Most of these require you to work on site as a contractor which r
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by Alan01252 14y ago
From my experience that's also the very very best graduates. I don't know of anyone who's gone in at that figure. I was earning just less than £35k two years after graduating with a 2.1 ( not sure what the equivalent is in American universi
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I do now! :) I didn't when I started, in fact I owed a considerably chunk of money to my girlfriend and so priority number one was paying her back. In terms of the lifestyle, I love it. I honest don't feel like I've "worked" in the conventi
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Freelancing, half a year in.(alanhollis.com)
57 points by Alan01252 14y ago|58 comments
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Looks really good. In fact I'm kind of envious, the base theme already looks better than what I was able to create using the same stack. A couple of very minor things: The buy now button has an alert attached to it. The documentation is gre
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Thanks Philip, I find myself letting the fear factor of not having money completely control my life and actions. I am very impressed by anyone who's able to overcome this fear. Your story is truly inspiring, and I wish you the very best of
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by Alan01252 14y ago
First I really enjoyed the post. I'm even more intrigued now though, you have 100 paying customers at a maximum of £12 pound a month, this is only £14,400 a year. Between two of you?!? How long can you continue to live like that? How do yo
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Well you've successfully called my bluff.... Unfortunately I have no particular interest in that industry, and more importantly, if I'm honest, wouldn't have a chance of getting through the application stage.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I find this figure hard to accept. £100k+ a year for a developer with no experience? I've been doing software development for a while now, and know more than a few developers, and I guarantee you not one of them started on anywhere near £10
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by Alan01252 14y ago
You are kidding me right? Are you on internship?
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by Alan01252 14y ago
You've hit the nail on the head. Thinking about it that's exactly why I clicked "Money per month" too.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
SEEKING WORK — I'm based in England, but will happily work remotely for anyone in any location! Looking for a freelancer who's not afraid of communicating? Someone who will always respond to your emails and who gets excited about realizing
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Nice really simple and clean and one of those, I wish I'd thought of that moments. Couple of things I'd change. First ( probably me being dumb ) but for some reason I clicked on "Money per month" first rather than "amount". Maybe a dollar s
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I agree with you. From my past experience any data center is subject to risks. I've witnessed: Power failures. Cross site links being cut due to engineering works. Over heating due to air conditioning failures. Flooding And I'v
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I have no idea what use this could be to anyone, that being said it was extremely cool to zoom in on my little town and see five tweets going out from people just on the estate I live. *Edit I've just realised this is a demo show the power
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Hi all, I was writing this post yesterday before the AWS outage it seemed fitting to post this today. This has taken quite a long time to put together, and is only the first part in a series. Eventually I hope to have a fully functioning ba

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