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How To Use Trac Effectively

October 24th, 2008 | Freelance | No Comments »

Trac is a wonderful piece of software for use developers. I use it at my day job, and wanted to show how we use it effectively:

List of bugs ordered by most severe

PHP Designer 2008

June 27th, 2008 | Freelance | 2 Comments »

I recently heard about PHP Designer from Boagworld.com. They gave a nice review in one of their podcasts that I’ve started listening to. They made it seem all fancy and cool, and I just had to find out if it was really all that fancy and cool.

Web Standards in Layman’s Terms

February 20th, 2008 | Freelance | 2 Comments »

You: “My sites comply with current web standards.”Potential Client: “Eh, ok? Don’t all web-sites? ’sides, what’s it matter?”
The above conversation has availed most freelancers. You know why they should pick you over that cheap-o that offered them work at 5 bucks an hour. Of course, web standards aren’t the only thing that makes […]

So, how much is a web-site, anyways?

February 12th, 2008 | Freelance | 1 Comment »

Ah, that oh-so-familiar question to freelancers. You start talking to a potential client, kick around the ideas about their web-site, and eventually Potential Client wants to know how much it costs. Understandable. Unfortunately, their request for this knowledge comes out in such a vague way, it’s incredibly hard to answer without shooting […]