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Not a company, but I have been doing freelance work on my spare time since college. I graduated 2005. 2011 is a special year for me. I got 3 more regular clients and made more in a couple of months than what I would normally get in one year with my dayjob. Regular cleints keep sending me work. Eats a lot of time but totally worth it since I (w/ wife) have plans to move to New Zealand.

Both WePay and Stripe are US only.

https://www.wepay.com/Does-WePay-allow-international-non-US-... https://stripe.com/help/faq

So for now, I am stuck with Paypal.

Personally, I think that without the FBI they would not have been caught. The laws here are very weak and corruption is very rampant. Without the FBI, they could just have paid their way out of the problem.

I'm glad that they are caught and would love to have more of these FBI + Philippine Government operations going on. I don't want this country to become a haven for criminals. With other governments involved I think it would be much harder to bribe themselves out of the situation.

I'm not sure what you mean but I had a lot of fun solving problems (business) with django. Right tool for the right job I guess.

I'm using this already. I'm managing 3 clients right now and I already can see the benefits. I can see everything - so will my brother (co-hacker) when he accepts the invite! I'm using this as a to-do list.

I'm still going to use this with caution. I do not want to rely heavily on something that I could not afford in the future.

Hopefully, the pricing/freemium will not make me back-out.

I jog with my wife a couple of times a week; back-pains, neck, etc. are all gone. I mean _everything_. I feel much better.

Seriously, jogging makes me feel better and helps me think straight.

I can now sit down in coffeeshop for a couple of hours without a $500 chair.

I immediately closed the window. I spent a few seconds looking for a "skip" link though.

Only 4 hours for that kind of quality work. Very nice! I'd imagine that he can charge more.

Same as mine. Except I have Silver Bird, Gmail Checker Plus and Tidy Read.

Thank you. I've had very good results from HN contacts. I can't wait for this.

SEEKING WORK

Currently in the Philippines. New Zealand guys, I have a pending Skilled Immigrant Visa for New Zealand (application submitted last April 2011).

PHP, MySQL, jQuery (Javascript), Apache, Zend Framework, Wordpress, Joomla, etc.

PM me if you want more details.

Anyone hiring in New Zealand? My wife and I are in the process of migrating to NZ.

i have a lyrics site that earns 100usd every year thru adsense. it runs on zendframework(tried others but zf wins by a huge margin in caching on shared hosting). the income has paid for my blog, domain names, my brothers site, and a couple of beers.

Wow. Github just turned into something that graphic/web designers can actually use for image revisions etc.

Whatever the comments on this, Apple is creating another new way/market for developers to make money and at the same for itself. Genius.

fyi, i do not develop apps for apple. i gave my mac to my brother about a year ago. i figured that i could do the same with my cheap acer without worrying about dropping or losing it.

I haven't tried hackety-hack yet. But my initial assessment tells me that stuff like these are very good for people who want to learn new stuff. Is there something like this for Python?

XYZ files from Multibeam surveys. Windows user. Sometimes I need to look at the contents of the file - EG: remove x number of "headers" from the ASCII file.

ultraedit is the only text editor i could find that can open a 500mb ASCII file without problems.

Very good points. I have bookmarked the Stackoverflow post. I am glad that I had a good teacher for this subject in college. I really can't stress enough how important it is to design your database properly. I personally think that designing the database structure is one of the most difficult things to do when starting out a project. It is also the most fun :D Also, the satisfaction of optimizing your queries with just a few tweaks and seeing large amounts of improvements feels very good.

I love SQL and find it easy to solve problems with it. But I feel the opposite for ORMs. It adds another "learning barrier" for me. I hate it because sometimes I know how to solve a problem in SQL but have a really hard time solving it using the ORMs syntax. I have my doubts on it because at the start of the project you are supposed to define what DB you will be using.

Also, am I the only one who wasted countless hours trying to figure out how to execute a query using an ORM? While being absolutely sure how to do it with SQL?

This is my current situation. I am not that experienced and have a lot to learn. That is why I will be spending more time learning the ORMs I will be using and more hours figuring it out :)

Hmmm I found it a little bit distracting at first.

Does Prgmr have easy-to-handle web menus to for DNS, etc.? I am planning to get a Linode within a few months but Prgmr is a lot cheaper!

Bottomline, Linode has everything of what I am looking for (as I have seen most of the web interface from work). Easy to operate, fast, etc. Is Prgmr the same?

Since I don't like moving to different servers, I will probably be stuck with my choice for a few years. My mind would have been set to Linode if I wasn't reminded of Prgmr. :P

You should try working for a tech company where your skills are "directly" connected to the products.

It sounds like you work as a support group for the company. In my experience is usually underpaid, over-worked and the resources are not that high compared to the ones that are in the "frontline". And you rarely get notices for the great things you have done.

Me and my friends thought about sharing a VPS, but it did not work out.

Google App Engine sounds good. I will give it a spin as soon as I can... Appreciate the response :)

I still can't afford $20/month. :-| That is almost the same amount I pay for my hosting for the whole year.

FYI, I live in the Philippines. If get a Linode, I will not be able to afford to pay for my internet connection hehe

I am however planning to get a VPS though. I'll find a way :P

I think PHP's strength is coming from the large amount of web hosting companies offering it. It seems to be the "default" they offer, along with MySQL. Also, those hosting providers are so cheap that for some it is the only choice that they have (including myself).

While I have been learning Python for over a month now, I still do not have a server to run my stuff on. I run it on my local machine but it feels different when you have it "out there".

After a month of looking at and learning Python, I fell in love with it. Bottom line, if web hosting companies offer Python as one their "default" installations, then I would directly jump right in.

Python is nice because it has great web frameworks available - and at the same time, I can use it as tools to parse my huge CSV files (and other tasks) while I'm offline.

Python is a very "comfortable" language to learn - I never had that feeling when I tried to learn Ruby.

I remember starting out in Geocities and then in Angelfire. Those where the days when you had to submit your site to the Yahoo directories :D I actually made money selling ads from Commission Junction back then. It wasn't much but it felt great.

First the client is a prick. Do not deal with him in the future.

On the other hand, if I were in your position, I'd just give up the files. It will save a lot of trouble and the client will not give bad review about you. Still, it will be your loss. But do not worry, other clients will come. You can sort of "adjust" your fees to cope up with the lost money from the previous client -- or just deal with it like a businessman and accept the loss (time and money).

Think about the big picture. Is $150 (or even $500) worth it all?

You say you have a fine job and amazing pay. Why quit? I would quit when my startup is earning more than my current job.

What do you do when you are at home? You can spend your extra/free time on your startup until it grows big enough. At least you only have to work 8 hours a day. In my previous job I worked 9.6 hours a day :P

(Disclaimer: I quit my job almost a year ago but I have not gone fulltime doing web apps. I still enjoy coding while at home. I found a new hobby. :) )

Nice. Thanks!

This will save me some time in Photoshop and experimenting what color step to choose next for a good gradient.

I can relate to this post. I live in the Philippines have a good steady job but still not enough money to live comfortably and save at the same time.

I sell my extra time at night to do websites and design as well. I have been doing it for a few years now (>4years). I sometimes take breaks from it though.

I never tried odesk or similar sites. I tried to look for a small job there but there are too many uncertainties. Over the years I have about 1 or 2 clients that come back regularly so I just stuck with them. Although more would be better because I still have more time left. lol