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Personal, business, and otherwise.
After several years off of freelancing and being stuck in the corporate world, I really want to work with some new blood, meet new folks, and work on some personal projects.What I’m willing to do: I’ll happily help build splash and landing pages to get your startup off the ground. I’ll take a design, slice it, and return excellent, semantic, valid markup. I’ll complete the work in a reasonable...
I remember every once in a while a few years back, a group of folks would offer their services, gratis, to startups, for a couple hours a week or the like, in exchange for exposure, potential for future paying work, or simply experience.I've got a good friend who is just getting into development (and hell, even I) who could benefit from this sort of thing again.
I’ve been hard at work at both my day job and have recently ended a year-long run with a side client. I’ve decided to take a couple months off of “real” work, and want to work with some new blood, meet new folks, and work on some personal projects. What I’m willing to do: I’ll happily help build splash and landing pages to get your startup off the ground. I’ll take a design, slice it, and...
With that said, I think there could be a bit more description, or perhaps some examples of what I'd actually be signing up for, and how it works.
As a bit of trivium, on Chrome on OSX, auto-fill for the email doesn't work properly, and while small, it might help get a tiny bit higher conversion if that was addressed.
- I’m a full stack web developer who can take care of your web presence end-to-end, including hosting and system administration, as well as building out your designs.
What I can do for you:
- VPS Setup & Configuration, whether for a web server or otherwise.
- General SysAdmin work.
- PHP / MySQL back-end development (have been using Rails at my day job for 6 months or so, but I’m sure your money would be better used with another Rails developer).
- HTML5 Front-End, with excellent knowledge of best practices, and how to best deal with browser inconsistencies.
- Javascript: Been developing with jQuery since version 1.3, and greatly enjoy using Backbone.js as well. Of course, I can do the same tasks with “raw” Javascript, it’ll just take longer.
- Responsive Design: I’m excellent at converting existing templates into a responsive design to allow for mobile compatibility.
- CSS: Whether it be debugging some wonky IE6 issue, or creating a solid Compass pipeline for you, I’m here to help.
- CMS: I’ve developed several in-house content management systems, as well as doing a large amount of work in Wordpress and (ugh) Joomla.
My major projects: http://wireless.walmart.com, http://wirefly.com, http://www.rcn.com
Feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]
Writer, if you want some contribution, I've got some ideas and drafts down as I was writing some of this for my own blog.
What I meant was Codecademy: http://www.codecademy.com/ And the Pragmatic Programmer's Book on HTML5 and CSS3: http://pragprog.com/book/bhh5/html5-and-css3
Official Specs: http://www.w3.org/
I'd do the Codecademt exercises, then pick up the Pragzprog book on HtML5/CSS3 if you were looking to start. Also, go through the official specs.
Great group of folks talking about design-focused startups and a lot of cool front-end tech.
This isn't a feature. It's a bug.
Twitter to front page in 2005: "16 points for being able to write short messages?"
eBay to front page in 1998: "16 points for being able to sell things?"
It isn't about how involved or difficult a task is. Twitter wasn't "hard" to build (early on). It's about the utility of something, and this provides a great deal of utility. I don't mean my post to come off as a flame, as that's not at all what it's intended, but I, for one, find this very useful.
Inventions I'd like to see: Solar / radiant heat rechargeable thermostat. Annoying to have to replace mine with a watch battery once every six months.
Dual-filament bulbs that only fire one at a time. First one burns out, second one still provides light (perhaps at reduced output?), but indicates it is in need of replacement somehow. Not necessarily needed for standard bulbs, but the recessed lighting in my current place needs this badly. Bulbs are expensive and I don't keep them on hand if I'm not going to need them. But when I do need them, I'd like to have a bit of notice to get them before I lose light in a certain area of my home.
Flux (brightness / color adjustment for OSX) for all lighting in the home. Adjust amount of lighting based on time of day.
Congrats again on shipping a kick-ass product.