Alan01252

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Creating a high availability architecture on AWS(alanhollis.com)
2 points by Alan01252 14y ago|1 comments
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Not unheard of, I know of at least one developer earning much more than this working for a bank in London. I had the pleasure of meeting another software engineer from Switzerland who's salary was around that figure.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
It's a little bit of A, a little bit of B. The start of the night was very much a mingle, networking opportunity before the talks started. After the talks there was a gathering in the pub around the corner, which I'd of loved to of gone to,
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by Alan01252 14y ago
It was a complete failure on my part, I had/have an inability to talk/approach groups of people and ended up sitting on my own guzzling cans of sprite before making a hasty and rather embarrassingly early exist.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Very modest of you John. I personally found your talk great, and I came away from the event with a crazy idea which I'm going to pursue. ;)
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Hacker News London meetup was excellent(alanhollis.com)
89 points by Alan01252 14y ago|28 comments
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I really like this and have bookmarked it. I'll mostly be using it to demonstrate quickly to my customers how sites will look for a variety of devices in a simple way they'll understand. Any thoughts on monetization? Or are you planning on
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Bit of a shameless plug but I created something very similar here. https://github.com/Alan01252/WP-Bootstrap-2.1 I used this as the base to create my current blogs theme ( can be found in my profile ). Hope this helps others who my be con
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Wow, consider my brain melted. I guess the next question is, how busy are these guys?
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Good point! Thanks Tom. I assumed it was for one person but now you've mentioned it, that is probably for them both. In which case I guess it's less extreme on my brain.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
This was my favourite Podcast so far. A few things I really took away from it ( which I'll be implementing in my own freelancing /consulting business ) in no particular order 1. Charge more..... 2. Sell yourself as someone who solves busine
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Sorry, but that last line sentence has really touched a nerve, maybe I'm being trolled, but here comes my 2 cents anyway. I personally use PHP all the time, I love it. I can code large, maintainable and secure applications with far more spe
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Looking to get some feedback on my pitch and ways to improve what I can offer next time! Any feedback positive/negative would be greatly appreciated!
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Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? My analysis.(alanhollis.com)
2 points by Alan01252 14y ago|1 comments
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by Alan01252 14y ago
SEEKING WORK -- England ( London | Hampshire | Surrey ) or remote. Software engineer. Over 5 years experience creating, maintaining and most importantly delivering software products. I've been freelancing for just over four months and have
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Just started using Zsh. I never really had any qualms with bash, and so had the mantra if it's not broke don't fix it. Then I worked with a couple of junior developers and noticed them doing some cool looking things on the terminal. Suffice
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I've been freelancing for just over four months now and there are only two ways I've found clients ( who will pay the rates I charge ) so far. 1. Emailed the larger web design and creative agencies in the local area. ( Maximum around 1 1/2
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Didn't work on Firefox 14.0.1 Ubuntu 12.04. Dragged elements don't appear on the canvas. The error in the console log, "not dropping, no container or component found". Same issue with Chrome Version 21.0.1180.81. Looking forwards to when th
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Thanks again Patrick. You know what, I think I'm finally starting to get your point in its entirety.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
As a freelance developer myself, and thanks to Patio11, I've always had the charge more mantra firmly placed at the front of my head. So it's a little disheartening to hear on the basis of what was said in this conversation, that I'm still
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My fourth month freelancing(alanhollis.com)
1 points by Alan01252 14y ago|0 comments
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My biggest mistake so far?(alanhollis.com)
2 points by Alan01252 14y ago|0 comments
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by Alan01252 14y ago
It's amazing actually how many programmers don't concentrate on marketing at all. I've recently got a few emails from fellow developers asking if they need a blog/twitter/google+ account in order to get customers as a freelancer. The answer
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I'm shocked that in the last five minutes the two comments on this post so far are both from people, who, like myself, and the friend in the article, worry about sending invoices! I thought it was just something I was struggling with. It's
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Care to elaborate? I don't feel like I'm billing too often (I send invoices once a month), and I'm not sure what you mean by too much?
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Second month freelancing(alanhollis.com)
4 points by Alan01252 14y ago|0 comments
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Not US but UK here. And yes, in my experience, yes you can do 20 hour weeks from freelance jobs. The people/companies who want you are simply those companies with more work than they can currently handle. It's not hard to see why, in the UK
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Thanks blu3jack. I'll be honest I'm not sure how I'll handle that when the time comes. I'm hoping that as long as I always leave the job knowing I did the best I could, even if I believe the decision made were the wrong ones, I'll be happy.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I think this is a great point. I've seen time and time again the old adage "it's not what you know, it's who you know" ringing true. It took me a long time to stop moaning about it, and start doing something about it instead.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I'm keen to know whether you ever expressed these concerns? My recent (and limited in comparison to yours) experience is that as a freelancer demanding a certain wage my knowledge and feedback is taken in very high regard and if I feel some

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