Making the Most Out of Unconferences
It’s my favorite time of year right now, not only are we in the middle of the holiday season, but we freelancers have another season to celebrate–unconference season! If you’ve never heard of an unconference before, it basically entails Barcamp, Podcamp and WordCamp. Unconferences are informal get togethers where freelancers and web professional come together...
Read more…How To Easily Speed Up Your Coding Times
One you’ve learned about web standards, validation and semantics, the next important thing is to learn how to speed up your coding. By speeding up the time it takes to code a site, you’re able to both schedule in more projects and charge more for the work you do. Of course, speed means nothing if...
Read more…A Comprehensive Review of Hosting Companies – Which One Is Right For You?
Choosing a host is one of the hardest choicest to make – yet is one that is very little thought of. We plan out the design, the development, user experience and SEO, but when do we ever plan or care about the hosting? That is, of course, until something goes terribly wrong and your website...
Read more…The Power Of The New Crowdsource? The Evolution Of Online Help
Crowdsourcing as we know it today is a terrible thing. It basically boils down to clients asking several, even hundreds of freelancers, to provide spec work in the hopes of getting their product chosen and getting paid. No other industry I can think of does this, and is something that plagues the professional freelancers, as...
Read more…Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
I’ve never been a fan of coding books, but when someone recommended me to try Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche, I just had to try it. I’d been wanting to learn how to code iPhone apps for Codesnipp.it. Shortly after listening to several podcast interviews, I...
Read more…Beginning WordPress Development: A Look At Common Functions
WordPress is both my favorite blog and CMS platform ever created. It’s easy to use and customize, and there’s basically nothing that can’t be done in it. If you don’t have a copy of WordPress, you can download the latest version here in order to follow along with this tutorial. One of my favorite things...
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