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On the way to CTIA

Opinioneer — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:20:45 +0000

It has been more than a few years since the last time I attended CTIA, but this year I hear it is the place to be. It is also a good time to launch the new service I’ve been working on for a while now. WirelessCareer.com is still in beta, but it is officially open to everybody.

Not much else to say right now because I have to get to the airport, but I will post more details in the next few days.

Bravo! to RentaCoder.com

Opinioneer — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:01:29 +0000

So, as my first project finished and rocks, I just had an extremely annoying experience with the other developer I had hired, but RentaCoder.com saved the day. The project was simple: integrate a template into a shopping cart. I start working with a coder who does half of the work (the easy half) and says that the rest can not be done due to badly written cart code. I am no developer but I know my html and basic technical stuff. So when I ask RentaCoder.com to arbitrate this they decide in my favor since the oder had violated some rules of the agreement.

Then the guy goes crazy and starts screaming, insulting and threatening. RentaCoder.com deleted his profile. A drastic measure? perhaps, but from what I know about this developer it was the right decision. I am impressed with the staff and the overall process at RentaCoder as much as I am unimpressed with Scriptlance.com. I’d steer way from Scriptlance.com at all costs.

In any case, now I need to start from scratch with this project but that’s cool. There is a reason for everything!

My pet projects

Opinioneer — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:15:58 +0000

It seems I am not writing daily as I was originally hoping but after all that’s not necessarily bad. I’ve been busy with a couple of pet projects, one of which has come into completion after almost four months. I was working with a developer to design a new Wordpress theme for a business project I have been working on over the past year and a half or so.

Initially I started designing the site myself but eventually decided that a designer with skills fresher than mine would probably make a real difference, and I am happy I took the step of hiring him. Finally yesterday he notified me that the site is complete and installed in my domain, so the only thing missing is for me to run a final test.

I won’t say what the site is about, but I will say that Wordpress not only makes a cool blogging engine but also a good Content Management system (CMS).

An experienced eye will be able to tell that it is probably running on Wordpress, due to the Flickr and Tag Cloud widgets, and also because comments are enabled, but overall it is a really cool site! Simple but cool!

The other pet project is still going on . This developer doesn’t seem as customer friendly as the designer that did my first project but the verdict is not out yet.