Unemployed Developer

Well, this post doesn’t have much to do with any type of development. Personally I’ve been a bit slow in getting some new posts out, but in my defense it was Thanksgiving this past weekend, and I’ve been actually getting clients that want my services. I might actually change my plan to become a freelancer if I continue having client success.

This blog has been a bit more successful than I originally planned. Past sites I’ve worked on took forever to reach at least 500 hits a day. It took me 9 days to reach 500 hits. Mind you I didn’t promote the blog until the 7th or 8th day. I’m quite happy with these figures and it makes me want more. I’m also number 1 in Google for the term Unemployed Developer, I like that!

But enough about me, I want to know who you people are, I see an average of 100 people a day who visit my blog as type in traffic or have the site bookmarked in their browser. At the same time I see an average of 300-400 people who come by through the means of referral sites.

I want to know about you guys and what made you visit this site. Are there any topics you would like to see? I have some drafts that I need to finish, but if some interesting topics come up, I would love to research and write about them. Do you want to write for this blog? I’ve already had a good friend Eugene do a post for me on Stored Procedures in Postgres.

For future posts I am planning to do a good review on Balsamiq Mockups which I’ve found to be an incredible piece of software for making mockups in a matter of minutes. However this posting will be delayed as I want to play with this new toy as much as I can and write a very nice tutorial review. I also promised to do a write up of the HTC script for rounded corners in IE, which I’ve tested a bit and had some success. I’m also thinking of doing a PHP tutorial series called “Little Known/Used PHP Function of The Day”, although I don’t know if I an pull off a daily function, maybe it will be “of the moment”.

another note, if you guys like my blog, please help me share the word about it. Link to me, follow me on Twitter, email me with your thoughts, ideas and questions or leave a comment.

Ten IT Concepts That Non-IT People Don’t Get

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Pros and Cons of Flash-based Sites

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9 Ways to Make Your Writing More Compelling

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10 code snippets to interact with Twitter

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CSS techniques web developer should use

Web Developers should always be looking at improving their CSS skills, especially with the coming of CSS3. What doesn’t kill you makes you a stronger developer, right? Read more…

That’s it for the weekly link roundup this week!