Alas, it does'nt work in linux firefox, say it needs flash 8, which I already<br>have, youtube and google video work fine...<br><br>so this ones for all you Microheads out there...<br><br><br>Lee<br>28.12<br><br><br><b><i>James Le Cuirot <chewi@aura-online.co.uk></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Gary asked me last month where I work that allows me to work with Rails<br>on a daily basis. I haven't got around to replying until now because my<br>work situation was actually in a major state of flux at that particular<br>moment!<br><br>The answer is that I'm a self-employed web and server monkey working at<br>home in Perth. Have been since I moved here from university in the<br>summer of 2005. It was really hard at first and if it hadn't been for<br>my large student overdraft facility (which I think I still have!) then<br>I wouldn't have survived. Things are very different now. I
recently put<br>away £5000 in savings even though my wedding is in 3 months. Not that<br>I'm footing most of the bill, mind you! :P I'm not sure how much most<br>people normally save. The way things are these days, probably not much.<br><br>My major client for the past year and a half has been a social<br>networking site in the making known as The Flex. They're aiming big so<br>it's taken a while but I'm a little tired of it now, hence the state of<br>flux I mentioned earlier.<br><br>When I announced that I was leaving, my fiancée began to worry. But<br>before she'd even had a chance to walk into town and tell her mother to<br>cancel the wedding (not really but I'm sure she was tempted!), I'd<br>simply picked up the phone and grabbed myself another long term client.<br>I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's all about who you know.<br>Contacts are crucial. There's always demand out there, you just have to<br>know who's making it.<br><br>So at the end of the month,
I shall be picking up an old PHP code base<br>for kiosks and updating it to work with photo booths. I'm certainly not<br>PHP's biggest fan so if the deadline isn't too pressing, I'll migrate<br>to Rails first. The boss is more than happy to do this.<br><br>While doing the big jobs, I squeeze in a few smaller ones along the<br>way. I worked through an agency to begin with and picked up a few<br>clients there including a couple of estate agents. I'm still<br>maintaining one of those sites independently. I'd be maintaining the<br>other one too if I hadn't shoved it onto someone else. It relied on<br>screen-scraping and I couldn't wait to see the back of it. Ech! I was<br>recently contacted by a guy who was previously at The Flex about a<br>small unrelated job. When you have contacts, you don't always have to<br>call them. Sometimes they call you! Finally, I know a hairdresser who I<br>regard as more of a friend than a client. As such, I only charge him<br>occasionally but
there are benefits. I built and have maintained the<br>Gentoo server in his salon for years. It's been great practise for me<br>and he allows me to host my own site and forum from it. He's also doing<br>me a massive favour by doing the girls' hair for free on my wedding<br>day. I gather that is usually rather expensive.<br><br>While I'm here, if any of you really know your Rails and don't charge<br>two arms and a leg, The Flex is desperately looking for my replacement.<br>They're based in London but you can work from home as I have and it<br>doesn't have to be 9-5 as long as you get the work done sometime. For<br>me, it's usually more like 11-7! If you're interested, check out<br>http://theflex.com to see what they're all about and drop me an e-mail.<br><br>Sorry for the saga, didn't think it would be that long. I do tend to<br>waffle a bit. Hopefully someone will find this interesting.
(-;<br><br>Cheers,<br>James<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dundee GNU/Linux Users Group mailing list<br>dundee@lists.lug.org.uk http://dundee.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dundee<br>Chat on IRC, #tlug on dundee.lug.org.uk<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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