Alan01252

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by Alan01252 14y ago
Good point about the fix contract plan, I hadn't thought about it from a hiring perspective before. Almost all the jobs I've had so far have been fixed contract first. Once they're confident with my abilities I move to a daily rate. I'm not
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by Alan01252 14y ago
There's really no excuse here for not getting something on-line. Twitter bootstrap, Theme Forest, etc make it easy to create something that looks reasonably good. Also do you have any projects on github/bitbucket? Have you contributed to an
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I'm almost at the end of my second month freelancing (post to come soon) and find this inspiring. My biggest struggle at the moment is what to aim for, yes working three days a week and getting similar money to what I was earning full time
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Busyness(alanhollis.com)
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Protip: Don't track statistics on your blog. Little controversial, but this is the first time in my life I actively care for a blog I've created. And the reason? I don't care about the statistics. Previously my main priority was getting tra
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I really really want this product to work. I can see the potential/benefit in it. But every time I try it I'm left disappointed. I know it's probably me doing something stupid, but here goes my experience this time. Oh cloud9 I really like
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Yes, yes it should. ;) thanks!
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by Alan01252 14y ago
How much is just hosting this service costing you? I can't see any method of payment, do you have plans to monetize it? Great MVP by the way.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Thank you very much for taking the time to reply! Also I know you're getting a lot of stick in this thread for the code which I feel is unjustified, I just want to say I commend you for open sourcing it.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I've a few questions if you have the time. Did you never charge? Or were you charging? What were the reasons it was / you were not ready to make it a money making business? Any mistakes or lessons learned while building/running the software
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by Alan01252 14y ago
https://statuscoder.com/418 Thanks you made me smile. :) Can I ask you what your motivation for this project is?
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Finding freelance work(glenscott.co.uk)
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I've had a lot of recent discussions about this. My Dad always says one of the worst decisions he made when he was running his first company was not to sell it. The price was right, but he could see was the turnover and the potential to ear
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The Hacker News effect.(alanhollis.com)
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Thanks! I looked on your site was hoping for a skype link but couldn't find anything but an email address. I'm gong to try and make the next PHP London event, hope to see you there. I'll make sure I bring business cards :).
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Done. Thank you.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Thanks Xioma, It's interesting really as to when you start classifying yourself as senior? I didn't really think too much about it when I started applying for roles as I had gained that confidence in my own ability. That being said, I was a
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Thanks Thomas, really appreciate your feedback on this and the rest of the advice you've given in the comments too.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
patio11, I'd like to say much of my stance on negotiating rates with people has come directly from reading comments you've made on hacker news in the past. Thank you! If anything I still think I'm too lenient but this I'm sure will grow as
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by Alan01252 14y ago
My response is something like this. " I feel that my standard rate is justified due to my knowledge, the quality of the code I produce, my flexibility and my ability to learn and pick up new skills and technologies quickly. I have other cli
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by Alan01252 14y ago
I have signed up ;)
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Thanks for this alinajaf. Pricing is tricky. I've already been turned down by a few companies at my current rate because I was too expensive. This put me off raising it higher. I'm still unsure as to whether having pricing on the website is
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Hi garagemc2. Where specifically were you looking so I can improve? http://alanhollis.com/ has an overview of my skills. http://alanhollis.com/cv/ has more details of my experience.
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by Alan01252 14y ago
A bit more than than that, unfortunately I haven't got exactly £250 from every client so far. And finding work, is work ;). I have had to negotiate as it's early days, and work for a reduced rate is better than no work. I haven't yet taken
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Thanks benholmen. I'll put this under the 'things to learn banner'. I don't use rss so didn't even think about it. I'll be getting it sorted asap. edit: Subtle button now under the post :)
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by Alan01252 14y ago
Absolutely everything was started from April 21'st. Which is the date I returned from 8 months travelling. It took me a few weeks to get into a routine again and see friends, family etc. The first blog post was published on 2012/05/03 which
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by Alan01252 14y ago
It's going well so far, I've had some really down days, just sending out emails and getting no responses. Or getting close to a project starting and it not happening. Fortunately it's all worked itself out in the end. I've been lucky!
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My first month freelancing(alanhollis.com)
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by Alan01252 14y ago
The C script is returning vulnerable on both my local machine (precise) and my vps (Ubuntu 11.10). However tests of trying to brute force the root password using the mysql one liners in this thread have failed every time. Both machines allo
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My programming journey(alanhollis.com)
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