Monthly Archives: November 2006

I’ll give it a try

Ok, I’ve done it. I placed a bid on a small rent-a-coder project and won. It’s a “simple” creation of some Visio files and won’t take too long. I’m hoping in getting a good review and with that get more projects. I know I said I won’t do freelancing but this hardly counts. I can [...]

Testing my cronjob

I’ve set up a linux server at home and am testing if the cron job works for getting postings to my blog.

Preparing for Certification

For a while now, I’m preparing for my exam as ‘[tag]Sun Certified Java Programmer[/tag]‘. I bought the preparation book by Kathy Sierra and find it most useful. Having worked with [tag]Java[/tag] for a while now I still have much to learn. I’ve learnt much about language specifics and details. A colleague of mine started doing [...]

Thinking about freelancing

I have been thinking about [tag]freelancing[/tag] for a few weeks now. I’d like to widen my horizon and learn new things. I wouldn’ give up my [tag]full-time[/tag] job for this, because it pays the bills. Let’s see the pros and cons: [tag]pro[/tag]: – getting experience – learning new technologies/practices – learning something about self marketing [...]

Mobile Blogging

So, here I am on my commute home and writing this on my Palm Treo 650. I can’t believe what’ possible nowadays.

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