Closure Compiler is a JavaScript optimizer that compiles web apps down into compact, high-performance JavaScript code. The compiler removes dead code, then rewrites and minimizes what’s left so that it will run fast on browsers’ JavaScript engines. The compiler also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about other common JavaScript pitfalls. These checks [...]
In a lot of ways, the value in a business plan isn’t so much having it, but actually writing it. It gives you a chance to sit down and actually work through the numbers for freelancing. Not sure quite how to price your services? As you write even a basic business plan, you have to [...]
The first few years of my career as a freelancer, I figured that an in-person meeting was logical in order to get jobs. After all, not everyone is comfortable hiring someone they have never met face-to-face.
And it does make sense for clients to want to meet with a prospective freelancer, but I have come to [...]
One reason that some freelancers may be hesitant to rely much on planning is that there are pitfalls for planners that can make planning frustrating. Some of the pitfalls include the following:
via Planning: The Not-So Secret Success Tool That Anyone Can Use | FreelanceFolder.
Even if you do not know much about HTML, getting the email form on your blog is quite simple… There are two ways of doing it — I will show the easiest way first and then long winded way second (which is how I originally got the code).
Read the second way if you use Typepad [...]
Although there are many freelancing opportunities listed online, most freelancers fail to make the most of them. That’s because they haven’t really learned to look for freelancing gigs properly.
Here are several suggestions to help you find more freelance work:
via How To Maximize Your Freelance Income | FreelanceFolder.
Real success advice usually doesn’t involve get-rich-quick schemes and creative ways to get money while you avoid work. Instead, real success advice teaches you how to work smarter and compete better. That’s the type of freelancing advice I have to share with you today.
Here are six practical action steps that you can form a foundation [...]
The ability to win new client projects is an essential skill to any freelancer. It’s something we freelancers practice from the day we get started, and it’s usually a skill that builds over time.
Aside from just practice, there are actually a lot of things you can do to become better at winning new client projects. [...]
Almost a year ago (wow, time flies!) I wrote a little tutorial explaining the nuances of add_meta_box in WordPress, and how it can be used to create some nifty Custom Write Panels. It was a nice little script, and still functioned great. I use it on almost all of the projects Liam and I have, [...]
I use Google Analytics for my web sites, you might use Mint or something else bespoke, but if you’re using JavaScript to track those stats (as Google does), you’re not capturing how many users you have that don’t have JavaScript installed.
I’ve written a plugin which I’ll share with you and also explain how it works [...]
November 10, 2009
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