Freelancing and side-projects on Rails
•Als KEY, PDF herunterladen•
2 gefällt mir•1,362 views
5 min lightning talk covering some of the tools I use for managing freelance projects on Ruby on Rails
Empfohlen
Weitere ähnliche Inhalte
Was ist angesagt?
Was ist angesagt? (20)
Ähnlich wie Freelancing and side-projects on Rails
Ähnlich wie Freelancing and side-projects on Rails (20)
Kürzlich hochgeladen
Kürzlich hochgeladen (20)
Freelancing and side-projects on Rails
- 1. Freelancing on Rails: a year in review John McCaffrey @j_mccaffrey railsperformance.blogspot.com
- 5. Rails is perfect for side-projects
- 6. Rails is perfect for side-projects • Part of its dna from the beginning
- 7. Rails is perfect for side-projects • Part of its dna from the beginning • Developers are comfortable coding end-to- end
- 8. Rails is perfect for side-projects • Part of its dna from the beginning • Developers are comfortable coding end-to- end • Tool stack lends itself to remote work
- 9. Rails is perfect for side-projects • Part of its dna from the beginning • Developers are comfortable coding end-to- end • Tool stack lends itself to remote work • Agile/iterative, focused on small tasks
- 10. My setup* * figure out your own thing
- 11. My setup* • 2-10hrs per week * figure out your own thing
- 12. My setup* • 2-10hrs per week • remote development * figure out your own thing
- 13. My setup* • 2-10hrs per week • remote development • bill as 1099 * figure out your own thing
- 14. My setup* • 2-10hrs per week • remote development • bill as 1099 • initial rate = (salary / 2080) * 1.5 * figure out your own thing
- 15. My setup* • 2-10hrs per week • remote development • bill as 1099 • initial rate = (salary / 2080) * 1.5 • more than one project * figure out your own thing
- 16. Why work more?
- 17. Why work more? • Focus on stuff that I like • Reports, PDF generation • Performance tuning • Design/Scope management • 3rd party integration
- 18. Skillz • Hosting, server, database • Deployment, monitoring • Testing, QA • Sales and business models
- 19. Staying current
- 20. Staying current • ruby5, railscasts, learnivore, nettuts
- 21. Staying current • ruby5, railscasts, learnivore, nettuts • Rails Rumble, ruby-toolbox, rubygems.org
- 22. Staying current • ruby5, railscasts, learnivore, nettuts • Rails Rumble, ruby-toolbox, rubygems.org • ChicagoRuby, WindyCityRails, RailsConf
- 23. Staying current • ruby5, railscasts, learnivore, nettuts • Rails Rumble, ruby-toolbox, rubygems.org • ChicagoRuby, WindyCityRails, RailsConf • Rails 3-way, railstutorial.org, railsforzombies
- 24. Staying current • ruby5, railscasts, learnivore, nettuts • Rails Rumble, ruby-toolbox, rubygems.org • ChicagoRuby, WindyCityRails, RailsConf • Rails 3-way, railstutorial.org, railsforzombies • Network of friends
- 25. Tools • Freshbooks, paypal, google apps, blogger • Teamviewer, skype, google chat, campfire • github, heroku, engineyard, assembla • Macbook, rvm, screen, Rubymine, vmware
- 26. Goodyear
- 27. Goodyear • learned a ton • boosted my confidence • met amazing people • since raised my rate 20%
- 29. Thanks! @rayhightower, @chaddow, @avdi, @seacreature, @jasonpearl, @rbates, @windycityrails, @railsconf, @wayneeseguin, @scottmarlowe John McCaffrey @j_mccaffrey railsperformance.blogspot.com Bof talk at 8pm table 4
- 30. Additional topics • Managing clients • Managing time (being productive) • Tools for the job • Business stuff (marketing, contracts, sales) • Resources and inspiration
Hinweis der Redaktion
- How I got started, not necessarily advice for you.\nQuick show of hands:\nHow many people have ever had a side-project, that you got paid for?\n\nHow many still have one that you occasionally help out on?\n\n\n
- taking pictures at the @bluebox party\n
- taking a picture of some of the schwag\nincluding a ticket for the scores gentleman’s club\n
- the guy next to me says \n“throw some money in there, show em how we roll”\nWe laugh, we drink, we talk about PDF generation in Rails\n\nCould I help with a little clean up? just take a look\nwe exchange info, and 3 weeks later I’m committing to his project\nand have worked around 2-5hrs on his project each week since.\n
- \n
- \n
- \n
- \n
- 1099 let’s me get some tax advantages on things I spend money on anyway\n\nDon’t take this as legal or tax advice. I’ve only been doing this for a year...odds are, I’ll need to make changes to my setup\n\nSince the first project, I’ve been asked to ‘help out’ on 6 different projects\n\n
- 1099 let’s me get some tax advantages on things I spend money on anyway\n\nDon’t take this as legal or tax advice. I’ve only been doing this for a year...odds are, I’ll need to make changes to my setup\n\nSince the first project, I’ve been asked to ‘help out’ on 6 different projects\n\n
- 1099 let’s me get some tax advantages on things I spend money on anyway\n\nDon’t take this as legal or tax advice. I’ve only been doing this for a year...odds are, I’ll need to make changes to my setup\n\nSince the first project, I’ve been asked to ‘help out’ on 6 different projects\n\n
- 1099 let’s me get some tax advantages on things I spend money on anyway\n\nDon’t take this as legal or tax advice. I’ve only been doing this for a year...odds are, I’ll need to make changes to my setup\n\nSince the first project, I’ve been asked to ‘help out’ on 6 different projects\n\n
- 1099 let’s me get some tax advantages on things I spend money on anyway\n\nDon’t take this as legal or tax advice. I’ve only been doing this for a year...odds are, I’ll need to make changes to my setup\n\nSince the first project, I’ve been asked to ‘help out’ on 6 different projects\n\n
- why would you possibly want to work another 2-10hrs a week?\n\nfocus on areas of expertise, things that are interesting to me\n\nstuff I would have been doing to stay current anyway\nlike getting paid to write a blog post\n\n
- \nworking with different versions of ruby, rails, database\nno longer know just one tool\nengineyard, heroku, slicehost, and self-hosted\nunderstand the basic need, and different tools for the job\n\n
- Now that I’ve seen a direct relationship between my knowledge, speed, and the rate that I can charge, I invest more in my knowledge\n\nI feel that I need to be better and faster than the last guy\n\nI’m not the expert, I just know where to find the info\nkeep an eye on stackoverflow, linkedin, elance, odesk\n
- Now that I’ve seen a direct relationship between my knowledge, speed, and the rate that I can charge, I invest more in my knowledge\n\nI feel that I need to be better and faster than the last guy\n\nI’m not the expert, I just know where to find the info\nkeep an eye on stackoverflow, linkedin, elance, odesk\n
- Now that I’ve seen a direct relationship between my knowledge, speed, and the rate that I can charge, I invest more in my knowledge\n\nI feel that I need to be better and faster than the last guy\n\nI’m not the expert, I just know where to find the info\nkeep an eye on stackoverflow, linkedin, elance, odesk\n
- Now that I’ve seen a direct relationship between my knowledge, speed, and the rate that I can charge, I invest more in my knowledge\n\nI feel that I need to be better and faster than the last guy\n\nI’m not the expert, I just know where to find the info\nkeep an eye on stackoverflow, linkedin, elance, odesk\n
- Now that I’ve seen a direct relationship between my knowledge, speed, and the rate that I can charge, I invest more in my knowledge\n\nI feel that I need to be better and faster than the last guy\n\nI’m not the expert, I just know where to find the info\nkeep an eye on stackoverflow, linkedin, elance, odesk\n
- in the process of managing these side projects, I’ve become more efficient in my 9-5, and have brought new ideas in\n
- raising my rate has allowed me to\n plan a vacation\n buy an enormous swingset for my kids\ngive back to the ruby community\n\n
- I had told myself that after I got some money through a side project, I could buy a new camera, but I got my kids a swingset instead\n
- If people are interested, maybe we can do a birds of a feather on freelancing and side projects\n
- wealthy freelancer book\n