I just read a great post by Shane Pearlman titled The Technician and the Entrepreneur. In it he describes two different types of independent contractors, the Technician and the Entrepreneur. It gives a great overview to what happens to independent contractors as they become successful and start to question what they are really doing in [...]
Archive | August, 2007
Customizing Bamboo Invoice
In a previous entry, I wrote about using Bamboo Invoice to create and mange the invoicing for my small software company. Now I want to walk through customizing the invoice to include some extra things. The Problem The base invoice is nice, but I really want to have the invoice due date printed on the [...]
Rails Rumble – September 8-9
Rails Rumble, a Ruby on Rails programming contest, has been officially announced. Basically it is a groups of 1-4 people who are given 48 hours to build and deploy a Ruby on Rails application.
Simple and easy to use invoices – Bamboo Invoice
As much fun as it is cutting your code on a new freelance project, there is a side to the business that we freelancers tend to forget, or just hope it will go away if we ignore it. Invoicing customers. We can work as much as we want for a customer, but unless we invoice [...]
LittleStreamSoftware.com
As I wrote about in a prior post, I have been starting a software company. Now I have gotten it’s website to a stage where it is available to be published. Even though the website appears to be simple, it has some advanced technology behind it. Oh course it is a completely custom site using [...]
Little Stream Software – Grand Opening
I am happy to announce that my new software development company, Little Stream Software, is now open for business. It’s focus will be creating easy to use web software and websites for small businesses. I have just launched the website at www.LittleStreamSoftware.com. If you know of any software projects or someone who might have a [...]