Posts of September 22, 2009

Freelance

So while I’m waiting to hear back from a few people I’m talking to about full time jobs I’ve been spending my time freelancing and working on my own stuff. One thing I’ve tried to put a lot of effort into lately is blogging. I was listening to a terrific podcast about web design called Boag World where they talked about what they (two guys who run a fairly popular web firm in the UK) look for in potential employees, and one of the things they said was that seeing a applicant with an active blog where they talked about things that they are tinkering with in web development and just digging deeper into web development concepts is more important then a bachelors degree. This made a lot of sense to me.

Using the “Social” Web to Your Advantage

In my last post I talked about how I started developing my own mini-API so that I could keep some of the data I use on different sites of mine in the same place, for example my links for different web sites I use around the web, you can get ...

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I am a Chicago based web developer about to graduate college from Columbia who also likes to dabble in UI design. I enjoy building all kinds of web applications in all types of languages. When coding I try to follow the DRY philosophy as best I can as well as making my web sites as semantic as possible. More about me.

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