The (Dis)Advantages of Working From Home
Being a freelancer means you often have complete freedom on where to work. However, we tend to stay at home and work from our beds, dining room tables, a corner in our room, or if we’re lucky enough, a whole room dedicated as an office. What we mostly do not do, is leave our home...
Read more…12412 – Experience and Learn 12 New Web Technologies in 12 Months
I stumbled across 12412.org when looking at Paul Davis’s work. Consisting of three developers including Paul, Anthony Killeen, and Stephen Fulljames, 12412 aims to log their activities throughout 2012 as they choose a new technology or technique every month to learn and play with. I thought this was a fantastic idea. I’ve had an insanely...
Read more…An Optimized Development Workflow
I’ve been working on the Macbook Air for about a week now and I must say, besides a few speed issues (which I’m pretty sure is due to a faulty Time Capsule), I’m really loving the swap. I’ve got an external monitor set up as the main monitor and I use the 13″ Air monitor...
Read more…Freelancing: From My Experience
To be a freelancer, your own boss, the master of your own destiny. You can work when you want, you can handpick your work, take time off when you like, have late starts and work in your PJ’s… WRONG! The life of a freelancer might seem somewhat idealistic, but in reality it’s hard work and...
Read more…25 Easy Ways to Fine Tune Your Freelancing Business
One of the things about freelancing that’s both helpful and harmful, is that once you get the business going, it pretty much runs itself. Once you’ve gone over that first hump of finding those first few clients, if you provide great service and work, you often don’t even need to advertise or look for clients...
Read more…10 Home Office Time Savers
Working from home is one of my favorite things about being a freelancer. However, it can end up being a distraction if you’re not careful. There have been plenty of times that the whole day has gone by before I even got started working–simply because I decided to play around the house or on the internet....
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