Võrgukogukond github.com

Analüüsimiseks valisin endale http://github.com võrgukogukonda. See on portaal, kus inimesed saavad paikneda/säilitada oma projekti koodi git tehnoloogia alusel. Kui projekti  kood avalikustad, siis ruumi oma projekti alusaks saad tasuta. Sees on ka sotsisaalvõrgustiku kujundid. Näiteks, inimesed saavad enda vahel suhelda ja parandada koodi.

Tehnoloogiline areng - projekt arenes sellest, et kolm arendajad Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett ja Tom Preston-Werner avastasid, et internetis pole mugava kohta kus saaks lihtsalt ja tasuta avalikustada oma open-source koodi. Nad hakkasid arendama projekti vastavalt oma vajadustele. Ideed ja realisatsioon meeldisid teistele inimestele, mille tulemusena sel nädalal githubis sai registreeritud (kokku) 1 mlj inimesi. Praegu inimesed kirjutavadki dokumentatsiooni githubis, et oleks lihtsam vaadata muutmiste ajalood.

Võimalus valida kõikvõimalikke parameetreid - Profiili sees on võimalik seadistada põhilised seadistused, samas on võimalik seadistada kooskõlastamist teiste servistega. Kasutaja saab looma repositooriumid (projektid), kus ka on olemas seadistused iga projekti jaoks (koostöö teiste serveritega eksisteerib ka siin).

Ajatu aeg – Vastuse kiirus oleneb projektiga seotud inimeste arvust ja nende elamise ajatsoonist. Näiteks, jQuery projektis on 9411 vaatlejad ja saada kiiret vastust oma probleemile, kirjale või kommentaarile on üsna reaalne. Samuti puudub reaalajas suhtlemise võimalus kuna see ei ole peamine eesmärk.

Kasvav rahuldamata suhtlemisvajadus –Kui githubi suhtlemisvõimalusest, siis iga projekt võib lisada endale teised teenused teistes servistes, millega saavad nad paremini hakata. Samal ajal, igal suurel projektid on olemas oma reaalelu meeting'ud.

Hariduslikud püüdlused – selle võrgu kogukonna liikmed saavad lugeda avatud projektide koodid ja sellega otsida uued ideed. Kommenteerimisvõimalused koos paralleelse koodi arenemise võimalusega annavad tagasisidet oma oskuste parandamiseks.

Palju vaba aega, mida sisustada – github lehel on juba väga palju koodi, mida saab vaadata ja parandada. Võib ka vaadata mida teised inimesed on teinud.

Vajadus "millegi tõelise" järele, olgu või näilise –  peamiseks ideeeks see ei ole, aga nagu oli juba mainutud üles, igal suurel projektil on olemas konverentsid ja meeting'ud.

Vahel ka otsene altruism – paljud projektid on alustanud oma elu just altruistide tänuks või kui firmad otsustasid avada oma koodi. Üheks minu näidiseks on OsmAnd - OpenStreetMap kaartide navigatsiooniline süsteem Androidi jaoks. Selle projekti areneb peamiselt üks inimene.

Cyprus-city second lifestep

In this week I added some functionality to one of my projects cyprus-city.com. As usually adding new functionality with rails is more easy than I thought before.

1. Now it has better caching, especially in CSS and JavaScript. Users can feel that pages are loading faster. You can test it watching this page.
2. I have rewrited import of homes from bestcyprushomes.com with Mechanize rails plug-in. As also it helped to add two more portals of searching new sell/buy homes' proposals. The only problem is that Mechanize cannot use Javascript for working with internet pages.
3. And final new feature is adding homes' import into cron-task, what means that new proposals will be added into cyprus-city.com automatically.
   

Hopefully in near future, I will add new portals with buy/selling proposals and not in near future redesign our page. This last task will do Irina Roost when she will have enough expierence;)

Freelance in continuing

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!!!

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;))

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.

New project started

I know that I didn't write for a long time however I promised that. But there were two big reasons:

1. studding - it toked  almost my time
2. 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.

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.