Don´t stop your imagination! This week, we talked to Dario De Nicola, an Italian web developer working as freelancer. Find his answers to our ten questions right here.
CyArc Europe - Introduction and operational frameworkRuggero Lancia
CyArk is a non-profit organization dedicated to digitally preserving cultural heritage sites using technologies like laser scanning and 3D modeling. Their mission is to collect and provide open access to digital documentation of over 100 sites internationally. Some threats to these sites include urban sprawl, flooding, arson. CyArk has ongoing projects in Scotland, China, India, and the US. They follow best practices for data collection, processing, archiving, and dissemination. Data is collected using laser scanning, photography, and photogrammetry. It is processed and archived, then made accessible on their website through tools like 3D viewers and interactive applications.
No risk, no fun? Not for everyone! A less risky method of starting your own business is to freelance “only” part-time besides your decent job (also check our recent article on part-time freelancing). Six years ago, Carlos Diaz Valverde from Peru decided to become a part-time freelancer to earn some extra money. Within the last six years, the Software Engineer realized 33 projects. We have interviewed the young freelancer within our article series freelancer insides. Curtain up for Carlos Diaz Valverde!
Our head of the week, Alessandra Oliveira, is a freelancer with a load of experience under her belt. She has worked as a graphic designer and art director for over 15 years and in freelancing, she especially appreciates being able to have a direct contact with her clients. She also believes that a good briefing at the beginning is the alpha and the omega of a successful cooperation between a client and a freelancer. Curtains up for Alessandra Oliveira from Brasil…
It has never been as hard to summarize a freelancer portfolio as in the case of our “freelancer of the week” Evgeny Shebanin. Born in Russia but living in Finland, the IT-professional combines several freelancer roles in only one person: Database architect, business analyst and software developer. In our interview, the multi-talent talks about the challenges of being self-employed and encourages other freelancers to extend their portfolios for better chances in the IT-job marked. We warmly welcome Evgeny Shebanin!
After reading Timothy Ferriss book “The 4-hour workweek” and learning about how to escape the rat race and how to live more and work less, Leonardo Soares decided to become a freelancer. So far it worked out quite well and even though the JAVA/JEE Developer isn’t earning $40,000 per month yet, he enjoys the newly gained variety of his work. And let’s be honest, being able to do what you love is already pretty amazing and as we all know: money does not buy you happiness…
Sharing our Pitch Deck with the community. This is the deck we used to raise our pre-seed funding and got $1.4M.
We are sharing this because we know the pain we went through when figuring out how to make a presentable deck for potential investors. It is very hard in the SaaS space.
Most of the content on the internet gives you advice that is only usable if you already have a scaled product and a proof of concept. What if you only have an awesome product?
That's what we had and that was enough. We break everything down for you here, slide by slide. Hope this helps at least a startup or two out there.
Go get them! ;)
Vanderlei Sbaraini Amancio is a 26-year-old web developer from Brazil who is constantly learning new skills like mobile app development. He works for an IT team at a school but also does freelance work in areas like video editing, design, and music production. Amancio believes IT professionals should always continue learning as technology changes rapidly.
Vanderlei Sbaraini Amancio is a 26-year-old web developer from Brazil who is constantly learning new skills like mobile app development. He works for an IT team at a school but also does freelance work in areas like video editing, design, and music production. Amancio believes IT professionals should always continue learning as technology changes rapidly.
CyArc Europe - Introduction and operational frameworkRuggero Lancia
CyArk is a non-profit organization dedicated to digitally preserving cultural heritage sites using technologies like laser scanning and 3D modeling. Their mission is to collect and provide open access to digital documentation of over 100 sites internationally. Some threats to these sites include urban sprawl, flooding, arson. CyArk has ongoing projects in Scotland, China, India, and the US. They follow best practices for data collection, processing, archiving, and dissemination. Data is collected using laser scanning, photography, and photogrammetry. It is processed and archived, then made accessible on their website through tools like 3D viewers and interactive applications.
No risk, no fun? Not for everyone! A less risky method of starting your own business is to freelance “only” part-time besides your decent job (also check our recent article on part-time freelancing). Six years ago, Carlos Diaz Valverde from Peru decided to become a part-time freelancer to earn some extra money. Within the last six years, the Software Engineer realized 33 projects. We have interviewed the young freelancer within our article series freelancer insides. Curtain up for Carlos Diaz Valverde!
Our head of the week, Alessandra Oliveira, is a freelancer with a load of experience under her belt. She has worked as a graphic designer and art director for over 15 years and in freelancing, she especially appreciates being able to have a direct contact with her clients. She also believes that a good briefing at the beginning is the alpha and the omega of a successful cooperation between a client and a freelancer. Curtains up for Alessandra Oliveira from Brasil…
It has never been as hard to summarize a freelancer portfolio as in the case of our “freelancer of the week” Evgeny Shebanin. Born in Russia but living in Finland, the IT-professional combines several freelancer roles in only one person: Database architect, business analyst and software developer. In our interview, the multi-talent talks about the challenges of being self-employed and encourages other freelancers to extend their portfolios for better chances in the IT-job marked. We warmly welcome Evgeny Shebanin!
After reading Timothy Ferriss book “The 4-hour workweek” and learning about how to escape the rat race and how to live more and work less, Leonardo Soares decided to become a freelancer. So far it worked out quite well and even though the JAVA/JEE Developer isn’t earning $40,000 per month yet, he enjoys the newly gained variety of his work. And let’s be honest, being able to do what you love is already pretty amazing and as we all know: money does not buy you happiness…
Sharing our Pitch Deck with the community. This is the deck we used to raise our pre-seed funding and got $1.4M.
We are sharing this because we know the pain we went through when figuring out how to make a presentable deck for potential investors. It is very hard in the SaaS space.
Most of the content on the internet gives you advice that is only usable if you already have a scaled product and a proof of concept. What if you only have an awesome product?
That's what we had and that was enough. We break everything down for you here, slide by slide. Hope this helps at least a startup or two out there.
Go get them! ;)
Vanderlei Sbaraini Amancio is a 26-year-old web developer from Brazil who is constantly learning new skills like mobile app development. He works for an IT team at a school but also does freelance work in areas like video editing, design, and music production. Amancio believes IT professionals should always continue learning as technology changes rapidly.
Vanderlei Sbaraini Amancio is a 26-year-old web developer from Brazil who is constantly learning new skills like mobile app development. He works for an IT team at a school but also does freelance work in areas like video editing, design, and music production. Amancio believes IT professionals should always continue learning as technology changes rapidly.
Here are the slides on how to "Reverse Engineer" how to get an awesome IT job. We asked our top 40 students for tips on how to get hired. We're summarised their wisdom into this slide deck.
This document provides tips for mastering LinkedIn in 3 steps. It recommends optimizing your profile with a professional photo, compelling summary highlighting your story, and including relevant keywords. It also suggests engaging with your target company's press releases to develop ideas to get their attention, such as creating a report on their initiatives and reaching out to employees. The overall guide aims to show how to effectively use LinkedIn for job hunting or business development in just a few strategic steps.
The document discusses two collaboration tools - Evernote and LinkedIn. It describes Evernote as a note taking and organizing app that allows users to take notes, organize them, archive them, and share them. It also discusses LinkedIn as the world's largest professional network for business connections. It outlines the key features of both tools, including how users can create profiles, connect with others, find jobs, and build their digital presence.
“Deadline is the best motivation!” These are the wise words of Dusan Markovic, a Drupal Developer from Serbia. Three years back, Dusan Markovic was tired of chaotic labor conditions and fixed salaries. He was looking for more!
Wiki-like collaborative development for seamless customer involvementPaolo Predonzani
The document describes a wiki-like collaborative development workflow for seamless customer involvement. It shows conversations between various stakeholders discussing requirements for an event registration system. Over time, additional requirements are discovered, the system evolves and matures. Lessons learned include having one shared installation from the beginning, doing early testing with end users, and keeping requirements, documentation and help information aligned. The workflow aims to bring business analysts, users and developers into the common ground for a more fluid process from sketch to implementation.
Also, keep in mind, this is, of course, just my list and I deliberately wanted to keep it short because if I specified 20 trends here, I'm not sure if they're really all trends.
Trust your designer! An interview with Robert Evans - passionate graphic and web designer with over ten years of experience in the freelancing business. Let’s find out why Mr. Evans became a freelance designer, where he acquires projects and clients and what he recommends other freelancers in the design business.
SKYE SANT Finding a Job Project Strengths Assessment My.docxMARRY7
SKYE SANT
Finding a Job Project:
Strengths Assessment
My strongest trait that I can bring to any business is my ability to collaborate. I
actively search for touchstones with the people within my working sphere
despite traditional differences that might separate collaborators working
toward a common goal. This will allow me to succeed in what I believe has
become an increasingly team-based business model. I communicate clearly
and as shown through my work as chairwoman of the University of
Colorado’s student government Public Relations department I am selfmotivated,
responsible, and I am a leader who consciously forges strong
relationships with a wide variety of people. I am equally at home speaking at
conferences, classes, seminars or before government legislatures.
Secondly I have a practiced creativity. I am innately a creative person but I
believe that, like a second language, without practicing my creativity I will not
be able to keep current with my contemporaries or expand my own vision. I
routinely produce and show my artwork in galleries in Denver and I am an
active performing artist. As the owner of a small digital design business I
innovate, explore, and use all the tools available to me - in many cases this
includes traditional forms and methods of art. I am well versed in the
sculpture of wood, metals and mixed media as well as traditional handdeveloped
photographic processes. I delight in rendering illustration in a wide
variety of mediums including conte, charcoal, watercolor and pencil.
Finally I am strong in technical skills across a wide range of software
programs. These include print design applications such as Microsoft Office
(Word, Power Point, Excel), Adobe InDesign, Open Office and Adobe
Acrobat, and other graphic applications in the Adobe Suite (Photoshop,
Illustrator). I also know the digital design and movie making applications in the
Adobe Suite CS5; AfterEffects, DVD Studio Pro, iDVD, Bridge, Quicktime,
RealPlayer, DVD Player ,Final Cut Pro, and iMovie. I can edit and create in
sound applications such as Soundtrack Pro and GarageBand and can
program websites using Wordpress, iWeb, FlashCS4 (and ActionScript),
FrontPage, HTML4, and CSS.
�
SKYE SANT
Finding a Job Project:
Job Requirements
TITLES: User Interface Designer; Experience Designer; Interaction Designer;
Information Architect; Social Interaction Designer; Interface Designer; User
Experience Designer; Interactive Systems Engineer and Kinetic User Interface
Designer.
METHODOLOGIES: Candidate should be able to apply various
methodologies of creating user interfaces including design research, research
analysis and concept generation, visualization, wireframing, envisioning
multiple design solutions, and affective processes in interaction design. To a
lesser extent, the candidate may be involved in prototype and usability
testing, implementation and system testing.
FIEL ...
Leonardo Frangelli has been passionate about coding since creating his first HTML page as a teenager. He enjoys solving problems through software and helping others. Throughout his career, he has continually challenged himself by taking on new roles and learning new technologies. He has worked for startups, international companies, and is currently a software engineer in New Zealand where he continues to expand his skills.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
Are you ready to take your LinkedIn experience to the next level? Then this guide is for you. We've packed it with tips, advice, and practical steps you can take to level up your LinkedIn experience. It's got everything from how to create the perfect profile, through to how to connect with the right people (and avoid the wrong people), plus information on how to use Groups and the LinkedIn Publishing Platform to your advantage. If you want to quit being a LinkedIn beginner and move to a more advanced experience on the most important professional network, it's time to Level Up Your LinkedIn Game.
Startup Now: A Guide from the Seedcamp 2011 participantscubesocial
What did you do in 2011?
Here’s what we did, and what we learned building, pitching and growing our own tech start-ups.
We hope it inspires you and others like you to follow your dreams and fulfil your goals in 2012, whatever they are.
Google Drive is a collaboration tool that allows users to store, share, and edit files in the cloud. It offers unlimited storage and integration with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations from any device. Maintaining a digital presence on LinkedIn is also important. It functions as an online resume where users can showcase their experience and skills. Connecting to others on LinkedIn helps expand one's professional network and learn from experts in different fields. Together, collaboration tools and digital presence make it possible for users to work together online and promote themselves professionally.
This document discusses collaboration tools and digital presence. It focuses on Microsoft OneNote as a collaboration tool that allows users to save notes, images, and audio and share them with other OneNote users. It also discusses how OneNote can help with work, classes, and home organization. Additionally, the document defines digital presence as an online existence and discusses how LinkedIn is important for digital presence and making business connections in the professional world.
This document is a transcript of a call for the Six Figure Blogging course. In the call, the presenters Darren and Andy discuss why blogs are well-suited for making money online. They note that blogs are flexible, easy to set up, rank well in search engines due to frequent updates, and allow bloggers to build communities and brand loyalty. They then outline eleven different income streams that bloggers can use to make money, including Blogads, affiliate marketing, consulting/coaching, ebooks/information products, sponsorships, and Google AdSense. The presenters emphasize exploring multiple monetization strategies rather than relying solely on AdSense.
The document outlines the role and responsibilities of ICT Angels in a school. As ICT Angels, students demonstrate safe ICT use, help increase efficient use of ICT, and represent student views on the new ICT committee. They lead coding workshops and a Raspberry Pi club, and blog about club activities. Being an ICT Angel provides opportunities for personal development, networking, involvement in new school technologies, and looks good on university applications.
The document provides tips and strategies for becoming a LinkedIn pro, including completing your profile, connecting with others, creating and sharing engaging content, using apps that integrate with LinkedIn, and taking advantage of features like checking your profile views. It discusses LinkedIn's redesign and new features, emphasizing building your personal brand and using LinkedIn for professional networking and marketing purposes.
Client Referrals for Freelancers – why they’re so great and how to get themfreelancermap team
The document discusses tips for freelancers to get client referrals. It states that word-of-mouth is more important than websites or profiles. Referrals must be earned by proving your trustworthiness and doing great work. When asking for referrals, freelancers should have a mindset of helping clients get good service rather than begging. Offering small rewards can encourage referrals. Freelancers can also help clients and colleagues by referring them to connections when unable to provide a service themselves.
This document provides 5 tips for staying motivated as a freelancer and finishing projects: 1) Find an accountability group to check on your progress. 2) Break large projects into smaller tasks to see progress. 3) Set timers to focus on tasks for 15-30 minutes. 4) Continue working when feeling creative and productive. 5) Reward yourself for completing tasks to avoid burnout. Following these tips can help freelancers stay accountable and motivated to finish what they start.
Here are the slides on how to "Reverse Engineer" how to get an awesome IT job. We asked our top 40 students for tips on how to get hired. We're summarised their wisdom into this slide deck.
This document provides tips for mastering LinkedIn in 3 steps. It recommends optimizing your profile with a professional photo, compelling summary highlighting your story, and including relevant keywords. It also suggests engaging with your target company's press releases to develop ideas to get their attention, such as creating a report on their initiatives and reaching out to employees. The overall guide aims to show how to effectively use LinkedIn for job hunting or business development in just a few strategic steps.
The document discusses two collaboration tools - Evernote and LinkedIn. It describes Evernote as a note taking and organizing app that allows users to take notes, organize them, archive them, and share them. It also discusses LinkedIn as the world's largest professional network for business connections. It outlines the key features of both tools, including how users can create profiles, connect with others, find jobs, and build their digital presence.
“Deadline is the best motivation!” These are the wise words of Dusan Markovic, a Drupal Developer from Serbia. Three years back, Dusan Markovic was tired of chaotic labor conditions and fixed salaries. He was looking for more!
Wiki-like collaborative development for seamless customer involvementPaolo Predonzani
The document describes a wiki-like collaborative development workflow for seamless customer involvement. It shows conversations between various stakeholders discussing requirements for an event registration system. Over time, additional requirements are discovered, the system evolves and matures. Lessons learned include having one shared installation from the beginning, doing early testing with end users, and keeping requirements, documentation and help information aligned. The workflow aims to bring business analysts, users and developers into the common ground for a more fluid process from sketch to implementation.
Also, keep in mind, this is, of course, just my list and I deliberately wanted to keep it short because if I specified 20 trends here, I'm not sure if they're really all trends.
Trust your designer! An interview with Robert Evans - passionate graphic and web designer with over ten years of experience in the freelancing business. Let’s find out why Mr. Evans became a freelance designer, where he acquires projects and clients and what he recommends other freelancers in the design business.
SKYE SANT Finding a Job Project Strengths Assessment My.docxMARRY7
SKYE SANT
Finding a Job Project:
Strengths Assessment
My strongest trait that I can bring to any business is my ability to collaborate. I
actively search for touchstones with the people within my working sphere
despite traditional differences that might separate collaborators working
toward a common goal. This will allow me to succeed in what I believe has
become an increasingly team-based business model. I communicate clearly
and as shown through my work as chairwoman of the University of
Colorado’s student government Public Relations department I am selfmotivated,
responsible, and I am a leader who consciously forges strong
relationships with a wide variety of people. I am equally at home speaking at
conferences, classes, seminars or before government legislatures.
Secondly I have a practiced creativity. I am innately a creative person but I
believe that, like a second language, without practicing my creativity I will not
be able to keep current with my contemporaries or expand my own vision. I
routinely produce and show my artwork in galleries in Denver and I am an
active performing artist. As the owner of a small digital design business I
innovate, explore, and use all the tools available to me - in many cases this
includes traditional forms and methods of art. I am well versed in the
sculpture of wood, metals and mixed media as well as traditional handdeveloped
photographic processes. I delight in rendering illustration in a wide
variety of mediums including conte, charcoal, watercolor and pencil.
Finally I am strong in technical skills across a wide range of software
programs. These include print design applications such as Microsoft Office
(Word, Power Point, Excel), Adobe InDesign, Open Office and Adobe
Acrobat, and other graphic applications in the Adobe Suite (Photoshop,
Illustrator). I also know the digital design and movie making applications in the
Adobe Suite CS5; AfterEffects, DVD Studio Pro, iDVD, Bridge, Quicktime,
RealPlayer, DVD Player ,Final Cut Pro, and iMovie. I can edit and create in
sound applications such as Soundtrack Pro and GarageBand and can
program websites using Wordpress, iWeb, FlashCS4 (and ActionScript),
FrontPage, HTML4, and CSS.
�
SKYE SANT
Finding a Job Project:
Job Requirements
TITLES: User Interface Designer; Experience Designer; Interaction Designer;
Information Architect; Social Interaction Designer; Interface Designer; User
Experience Designer; Interactive Systems Engineer and Kinetic User Interface
Designer.
METHODOLOGIES: Candidate should be able to apply various
methodologies of creating user interfaces including design research, research
analysis and concept generation, visualization, wireframing, envisioning
multiple design solutions, and affective processes in interaction design. To a
lesser extent, the candidate may be involved in prototype and usability
testing, implementation and system testing.
FIEL ...
Leonardo Frangelli has been passionate about coding since creating his first HTML page as a teenager. He enjoys solving problems through software and helping others. Throughout his career, he has continually challenged himself by taking on new roles and learning new technologies. He has worked for startups, international companies, and is currently a software engineer in New Zealand where he continues to expand his skills.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
Are you ready to take your LinkedIn experience to the next level? Then this guide is for you. We've packed it with tips, advice, and practical steps you can take to level up your LinkedIn experience. It's got everything from how to create the perfect profile, through to how to connect with the right people (and avoid the wrong people), plus information on how to use Groups and the LinkedIn Publishing Platform to your advantage. If you want to quit being a LinkedIn beginner and move to a more advanced experience on the most important professional network, it's time to Level Up Your LinkedIn Game.
Startup Now: A Guide from the Seedcamp 2011 participantscubesocial
What did you do in 2011?
Here’s what we did, and what we learned building, pitching and growing our own tech start-ups.
We hope it inspires you and others like you to follow your dreams and fulfil your goals in 2012, whatever they are.
Google Drive is a collaboration tool that allows users to store, share, and edit files in the cloud. It offers unlimited storage and integration with Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. This allows users to create, edit, and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations from any device. Maintaining a digital presence on LinkedIn is also important. It functions as an online resume where users can showcase their experience and skills. Connecting to others on LinkedIn helps expand one's professional network and learn from experts in different fields. Together, collaboration tools and digital presence make it possible for users to work together online and promote themselves professionally.
This document discusses collaboration tools and digital presence. It focuses on Microsoft OneNote as a collaboration tool that allows users to save notes, images, and audio and share them with other OneNote users. It also discusses how OneNote can help with work, classes, and home organization. Additionally, the document defines digital presence as an online existence and discusses how LinkedIn is important for digital presence and making business connections in the professional world.
This document is a transcript of a call for the Six Figure Blogging course. In the call, the presenters Darren and Andy discuss why blogs are well-suited for making money online. They note that blogs are flexible, easy to set up, rank well in search engines due to frequent updates, and allow bloggers to build communities and brand loyalty. They then outline eleven different income streams that bloggers can use to make money, including Blogads, affiliate marketing, consulting/coaching, ebooks/information products, sponsorships, and Google AdSense. The presenters emphasize exploring multiple monetization strategies rather than relying solely on AdSense.
The document outlines the role and responsibilities of ICT Angels in a school. As ICT Angels, students demonstrate safe ICT use, help increase efficient use of ICT, and represent student views on the new ICT committee. They lead coding workshops and a Raspberry Pi club, and blog about club activities. Being an ICT Angel provides opportunities for personal development, networking, involvement in new school technologies, and looks good on university applications.
The document provides tips and strategies for becoming a LinkedIn pro, including completing your profile, connecting with others, creating and sharing engaging content, using apps that integrate with LinkedIn, and taking advantage of features like checking your profile views. It discusses LinkedIn's redesign and new features, emphasizing building your personal brand and using LinkedIn for professional networking and marketing purposes.
Client Referrals for Freelancers – why they’re so great and how to get themfreelancermap team
The document discusses tips for freelancers to get client referrals. It states that word-of-mouth is more important than websites or profiles. Referrals must be earned by proving your trustworthiness and doing great work. When asking for referrals, freelancers should have a mindset of helping clients get good service rather than begging. Offering small rewards can encourage referrals. Freelancers can also help clients and colleagues by referring them to connections when unable to provide a service themselves.
This document provides 5 tips for staying motivated as a freelancer and finishing projects: 1) Find an accountability group to check on your progress. 2) Break large projects into smaller tasks to see progress. 3) Set timers to focus on tasks for 15-30 minutes. 4) Continue working when feeling creative and productive. 5) Reward yourself for completing tasks to avoid burnout. Following these tips can help freelancers stay accountable and motivated to finish what they start.
As freelancers, we know the importance of training our minds for self-discipline.Habits can be hard to establish but they are not impossible and the benefits we achieve from forming positive habits can be the difference between facing the day in a negative and detrimental way or a positive and encouraging one. So here are 6 Habits to face the day with the best mood
Making a pitch to a potential client can be intimidating; whether it’s your first time out on your own, or you’re a seasoned freelancer. There are definitely a few things you should do- and a few things you should avoid doing- in your proposal/pitch. These 5 tips will help you maximize your response and/or hire rate.
Agile methods - what they are and when they work best freelancermap team
Agile methods are a framework for project management that focuses on iterative development, collaboration, and adaptability. It works best for projects that have experienced self-managing teams, proactive clients providing frequent feedback, and tasks that are innovative in nature. Agile involves quickly delivering software in short iterations, making it easy to change directions and adapt the project. However, it does not work well for all repetitive or non-collaborative tasks.
Freelancing is growing like crazy and you’re probably still wondering why your mom won’t finally get it. Don't worry we collected a few steps that will help even the most oblivious old-timer out there realize that freelancing is not only a real job, but also in many ways better than the traditional forms of employment.
In business and private life we have to write email every single day. This form of communication has become one of the most important ways of communcation. Well-written mails can be a door opener, but badly formulated messages can be harmful for your career. But we have good news for all of you who are not into email writing that much: there are some great (and free) email writing apps that help you improve your mails...
Scott greer – consultant for digital marketing strategiesfreelancermap team
Scott is a digital marketing strategy consultant and decided to become a freelancer to spend more time with his family. Read more about his personal success story...
“Cultivate an unquenchable thirst for learning” and “never be ashamed to say you don’t know something.” These are two instrumental and honest tips from our freelancer of the week Lovey Pale. Since he got inspired by a fellow designer over seven years ago and decided to become a freelancer himself, these guiding words have helped him through many challenging as well as successful times...
Email often plays a huge role in professional communication. A freelancer spends a lot of his daily time writing emails, but everybody is prone to mistakes. These can vary in effect – sometimes your messages will land directly in the spam folder, won’t get read or are not enticing enough to get an answer. Sounds familiar? Here’s a list of the eight most common email mistakes that you should avoid at any cost...
Vladimir Samoilenko is a mobile apps developer from the Ukraine and can look back on more than ten years of experience in freelancing. Since 2010 he has developed more than 20 mobile applications and successfully upgraded over 15 for iOS and Android...
Our freelancer of the week is María Silvia Domeniconi. The SAP Consultant grew up and lives in Argentina and has been a freelancer for three years now. “There has not been one client who has not offered me to stay in the company as a permanent employee”, she tells us in the interview. But she prefers to keep freelancing. And it goes without saying: She does it with passion and success!
9 awesome Facebook Pages to follow as a tech-loving Freelancerfreelancermap team
Staying on top of all the developments in technology can be tricky. So why not start using Facebook as a gateway to relevant information? There are pages out there that will absolutely blow your mind, motivate you and also give you tons of useful new things to ponder....
Our freelancer of the week comes from the fourth largest city in Europe. His name is Arthur Etti and he is from St. Petersburg in Russia. Arthur has specialized in System Engineering and is skilled in using Agile software development methods in which requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams. Definitely something worth reading more about! Just like the resume of Arthur Etti…
¿No obtienes trabajo como freelance? Acá te damos el porqué.freelancermap team
Para encontrar trabajos como freelance debes tener mucha paciencia y ser muy organizado.
Esperamos que los anteriores consejos sean de ayuda para que mejores tu busqueda de trabajo. ¡Mucho exito!
4 grandes errores de precios que los freelancers hacen y cómo evitarlos.freelancermap team
El documento ofrece consejos para freelancers sobre cómo mejorar la productividad, establecer prioridades correctas, tomar descansos adecuados, delegar tareas y superar el miedo al fracaso. Proporciona ejemplos de cómo hacer una lista de prioridades, contratar ayuda para proyectos grandes y aprender de errores en lugar de evitarlos por miedo.
Ánimo, no siempre los e-mails en frio son desechados, depende el tiempo que te tomes para escribir el asunto, un asunto bien descrito hará que tus correos sean atractivos para abrir.
5 consejos para mantener el contacto con clientes antiguos.freelancermap team
Este documento proporciona 5 consejos para que los freelancers mantengan el contacto con clientes antiguos: 1) Utilizar boletines periódicos para mantenerse actualizado y compartir nuevas experiencias e ideas; 2) Mantener los boletines cortos y directos para evitar ser visto como spam; 3) No desesperarse si no se recibe respuesta, ya que la paciencia puede resultar en nuevos proyectos.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
"Choosing proper type of scaling", Olena SyrotaFwdays
Imagine an IoT processing system that is already quite mature and production-ready and for which client coverage is growing and scaling and performance aspects are life and death questions. The system has Redis, MongoDB, and stream processing based on ksqldb. In this talk, firstly, we will analyze scaling approaches and then select the proper ones for our system.
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
You can also read: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/updates/office-365-tenant-to-tenant-migration-step-by-step-complete-guide/
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
3. Dario De Nicola
1) Firstly, can you tell us bit about yourself!
My name is Dario De Nicola, i am a web developer from South of
Italy. I have 10 years experience as php, asp, mysql, sql,
javascript, jquery, html, css developer. I’m a freelancer for 7
years in which I’ve lived in different regions of Italy. Actually I
live in the country near Perugia in the middle of Italy. I am
technical manager of a new Italian music social network www.ingiro.net, next year I will be starting the 2.0 version with new
socialite oriented features.
4. Dario De Nicola
2) If you would search for your profile on Google, which are the
three keywords you would type in the search bar?
php jquery developer
5. Dario De Nicola
3) What was your inspiration and when did you actually decide
to become a freelancer?
I became freelance to feel free to manage my time in the several
passions I have, like music, reading, programming. But not only. I
think being a freelancer makes you to improve faster your
experience and knowledge, because the competition encourage
you to stay updated with new technologies on the web.
6. Dario De Nicola
4) What kind of services have your clients asked you to
provide?
I worked for my clients on creating simple and complex
customized CMS, E-Commerce websites, instant win web
system.
7. Dario De Nicola
5) Do you use other freelancers or companies to provide skills
that you don’t possess?
Of course, union is more strength than one! I have some
collaborations with other freelancer I’ve met during last years.
8. Dario De Nicola
6) Now tell us, how do you find new clients that are interested
in your services?
Fortunately, from last year I’m not searching in new clients,
because I had project assigned from a good number of clients.
However I have profile on some social and business networks
like freelancermap, LinkedIn.
9. Dario De Nicola
7) What about freelancermap.com? Can you tell us a little bit
about your experience with our IT-network?
I haven’t had yet the opportunity to work on some of the
projects published on your network, but I’ve read a lot of
interesting job and professional experience , i think
freelancermap is a very powerful service for freelancer world. I
can’t say anymore, I have only to have more experience on your
network.
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8) How do you set yourself apart from your competitors? What
makes you special?
I’m sure my best quality is clean code, high precisions in every
details and a very good problem solving attitude.
11. Dario De Nicola
9) What are the top three books, blogs or magazines you read
to stay up to date in the IT-market?
www.html.it, www.stackoverflow.com, www.phpclasses.org
12. Dario De Nicola
10) Freestyle! Is there anything you would like to tell our
readers?
Don’t stop your imagination!