Monthly Archives: December 2006

Freelancing so far

I’ve completed two projects on [tag]rentacoder.com[/tag] so far. Only small ones of course, because you don’t get the bigger ones without some good ratings in your resume. I quite liked the second one: integrating Google Maps to a job search site. Incidentally it was nearly the same as my own private project I did a [...]

Technorati link

I registered with Technorati, so that I’m now part of the huge family of blogs indexed there. I don’t think it’s neccessary, because I’m doing this mainly for myself, but it won’t hurt on the other side. Technorati Profile

Laptop woes

For nearly two years now, I have an [tag]Asus[/tag] [tag]Laptop[/tag] ([tag]A3N [/tag]Series) with a nice 15.4″ SXGA Display. I used it mainly on my two hour train trip during my distance relationship. Sometimes for surfing on the couch or from bed. A few months ago there was a problem: Some [tag]keys[/tag] didn’t work anymore. (‘p’, [...]

Google Maps

Last Week I finally did something, I’ve wanted to do for a long time now: I built a small web app using the [tag]Google Maps[/tag] API. I grew tired of explaining the route to our new appartment to our visitors. Now I can point them to this site with a map of our surroundings. I [...]

Rentacoder.com

As I said last week, I’ve done a little [tag]freelancing[/tag] project on www.[tag]rentacoder.com[/tag]. Basically it was just some Visio files which had to be created. It was two hours work and the pay was alright. I got a [tag]rating[/tag] of 10 (out of 10) for my work and am quite satisfied how it went. First [...]

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