It is very hard to get your first client as a freelancer. To make it easier I recommended to create your project and show it to the client. (It was a theority.)
But for now, I found one client in freelance page with showing my project and describing how I see their problem solution. And one of my two solution-seeings won the bid. The bid was to make some component/plugin for Joomla that helps client to find the nearest shop to him.
Firstly, client wanted to let me alone without money becouse I explained my plan too detalised (it was my mistake). But, customer was great and sent me a 20eur from which 7eur ate my home-bank :-D. Good eating, bank!
But in pair of days there become a miracle. The client had a problem and asked me to do or improve some component of Joomla. The problem was that script loaded all the shops and map becames too heavy and one city was like one red spot. My task became to create the script wich at first didn't load anything. When client inputs is address or zip-code script had to be able to find nearest shops and return 10 of them.
5 days ago I did this script and got my money (it was a little bit more than firstly I wanted). For now I will get, maybe ane more task to develop more futures to this script.
In conclusion, this is a small history how one small project helped me to get my first client, and to say more, satisfied client!!!
воскресенье, 28 февраля 2010 г.
вторник, 16 февраля 2010 г.
Yes, I did that
As I thought, when I was creating my cyprus-city.com project, I will study something. And for now, I almost have a client at eufreelancer.eu. And one another client is thinking about to buy the code of my application, which I mentiod in top of this message.
So, for every startupers or programmers who is thinking to become a freelancer, just create your project and start it, that every your future client could see your work. You will think, that for client that your project is not what client wants to see. But you could show client part of your project which shows solution of main client problem. If you do it in this case, client will see that your understand his problem an can solve it. Again, do some project and show it to clients as much as possible (by the way, you will get trafic to your page;))
So, for every startupers or programmers who is thinking to become a freelancer, just create your project and start it, that every your future client could see your work. You will think, that for client that your project is not what client wants to see. But you could show client part of your project which shows solution of main client problem. If you do it in this case, client will see that your understand his problem an can solve it. Again, do some project and show it to clients as much as possible (by the way, you will get trafic to your page;))
суббота, 13 февраля 2010 г.
OK, how to get content to your page
For first time it's hard to make a content of your page and make people to create it. The only solution is to parse data from other pages and save in your project. Like I wrote to some property-companies in Cyprus to use my project, no-one answered me for three days. So I will take information from them myself.
For doing that rails/ruby has some solutions. One of them is HPricot, I didn't like it because it was hard to work with. The next solution I'll try is Nokogiri to parse all the data.
When I saw rails casts it seemed quite easy to save parsed data into rails project. In next some days I would like to make parsing into http://cyprus-city.com. That's cool, isn't it?
P.S. I have already did the model to parse data of property from another property-companies but they all only sell villas. No-one wants to make realtor job. So I, may be, give up with this project, I would like to see something more about Rails.
четверг, 11 февраля 2010 г.
New project started
I know that I didn't write for a long time however I promised that. But there were two big reasons:
- studding - it toked almost my time
- repairing of my new flat
And like I already wrote in title I started my new project - Cyprus City (http://cyprus-city.com). The main point why I did this page is that there is no good web-page for finding homes or accommodation. I know that because for now I'm studying in Cyprus Nicosia for this term.
The programming language of this project is Ruby on Rails, JavaScript framework is jQuery with some plugins. In next step I may-be do parsing from another property-agencies pages so http://cyprus-city.com could became main page for finding homes for buying and renting as well as to find business properties.
вторник, 6 октября 2009 г.
Rails
Some months ago I decided to learn Ruby on Rails. So as here is the main language is English, I'll try to write on English too, because I must learn this English. If you see my mistakes, please, correct me.
One another thing what I'll post here is posts on theme what I see around the world.
P.S Today or tomorrow I'll write how to save changeable tree in Rails with sortable_element.
One another thing what I'll post here is posts on theme what I see around the world.
P.S Today or tomorrow I'll write how to save changeable tree in Rails with sortable_element.
четверг, 13 марта 2008 г.
Что за чертовщина! Сделал презентацию по Академическому англискому, но она оказалась на не нужную тему. Поэтому выкладываю ее ниже, она на тему "Animal abuse in entertainment & hunting".
We love a lot of entertainments in which the main roles play animals. These are advertisements, games, dances and, certainly, hunting, but we never ask ourselves why animals do this and if they want to do that tricks.
There is the Donkey basketball in the USA. It means that people play basketball and they don't run on their own feet but ride on donkeys. In my opinion, there's nothing interesting in running around basketball area, especially, if you know that donkeys neither eat nor drink anything before games, in order to keep them from having “accidents” on the court.
Donkeys are transported to the games in bad conditions. Moreover, during these cruel “games”—which some schools hold as fundraisers—donkeys are dragged, kicked, and punched by participants who have no animal-handling experience. We often say that modern youth is too cruel to others but we teach them to be such because Donkey basketball send kids the message that it’s OK to abuse and humiliate those who are weaker than they are. Nowadays all universities cancel this game one by one in case it breaks animal rights.
Almost everyone have seen films with animals, I haven't seen any person who hasn't. We like this kind of films because animals make movies more interesting. Today in every set there is a special man who controls how people behave to animals because 20 years ago they were kicked a lot and sometimes were killed. Animals just didn't understand what that cruel people want they to do.
One more example of animal abuse is the hunting. Englishmen used to have fox hunting. It's a kind of hunting where people specially bring foxes to the place where would be hunting and there is a special man in the rural company - a master of foxhounds. Ahead rural's who ride on their horses run embittered foxhounds trying to find the fox. This hunting was originated in the 1500s and was practiced all over the world. It's an important part of rural but was banned in 2004. Hunters say that hounds don't kill foxes, men shot the victim so it isn't cruel but sometimes foxes keep alive with a hundreds of wounds. If you see a picture with dead fox you will be shocked as cruel all it is.
Almost all of as love zoos. It's so interesting to see animals which we cannot meet in our everyday life. We give animals food despite the fact that there is a inscription written on the table “DO NOT FEED ANIMALS”. It seems to be funny. But have you ever wondered how stressed the animals are? I guess, not many of as would like to live in an alien country with clothes only for our climate and sitting in a small coop for many many years. And you must behave as a clown to get food.
All in all, I think that people are very cruel to animals and we have to change our mind in order to not abuse animals because psychologists say that people who are cruel to animals are cruel to people. And what about exclaiming that animals are our little brothers/friends. So we have to take care of animals to extirpate cruelty.
Sources:
http://www.peta.org/feat-donkeyball.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_hunting
We love a lot of entertainments in which the main roles play animals. These are advertisements, games, dances and, certainly, hunting, but we never ask ourselves why animals do this and if they want to do that tricks.
There is the Donkey basketball in the USA. It means that people play basketball and they don't run on their own feet but ride on donkeys. In my opinion, there's nothing interesting in running around basketball area, especially, if you know that donkeys neither eat nor drink anything before games, in order to keep them from having “accidents” on the court.
Donkeys are transported to the games in bad conditions. Moreover, during these cruel “games”—which some schools hold as fundraisers—donkeys are dragged, kicked, and punched by participants who have no animal-handling experience. We often say that modern youth is too cruel to others but we teach them to be such because Donkey basketball send kids the message that it’s OK to abuse and humiliate those who are weaker than they are. Nowadays all universities cancel this game one by one in case it breaks animal rights.
Almost everyone have seen films with animals, I haven't seen any person who hasn't. We like this kind of films because animals make movies more interesting. Today in every set there is a special man who controls how people behave to animals because 20 years ago they were kicked a lot and sometimes were killed. Animals just didn't understand what that cruel people want they to do.
One more example of animal abuse is the hunting. Englishmen used to have fox hunting. It's a kind of hunting where people specially bring foxes to the place where would be hunting and there is a special man in the rural company - a master of foxhounds. Ahead rural's who ride on their horses run embittered foxhounds trying to find the fox. This hunting was originated in the 1500s and was practiced all over the world. It's an important part of rural but was banned in 2004. Hunters say that hounds don't kill foxes, men shot the victim so it isn't cruel but sometimes foxes keep alive with a hundreds of wounds. If you see a picture with dead fox you will be shocked as cruel all it is.
Almost all of as love zoos. It's so interesting to see animals which we cannot meet in our everyday life. We give animals food despite the fact that there is a inscription written on the table “DO NOT FEED ANIMALS”. It seems to be funny. But have you ever wondered how stressed the animals are? I guess, not many of as would like to live in an alien country with clothes only for our climate and sitting in a small coop for many many years. And you must behave as a clown to get food.
All in all, I think that people are very cruel to animals and we have to change our mind in order to not abuse animals because psychologists say that people who are cruel to animals are cruel to people. And what about exclaiming that animals are our little brothers/friends. So we have to take care of animals to extirpate cruelty.
Sources:
http://www.peta.org/feat-donkeyball.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_hunting
вторник, 11 марта 2008 г.
Очередной день в школе
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