Getting around in New York could be time taking and also expensive. For all my visits to client locations in NY, I usually used to either drive all the way from NJ (currently located) or hire a cab half way. As you may have already noticed, it was a bad idea, but for someone new in NY, it could be the only way out.
Thanks to the great service of hopstop.com, it saved me quite a lot of money today. Where it takes around $80 to $100 for the cab ride from La Guardia Airport to Northern NJ, I was able to save upto $90 using public transportation and was home in less than 2 hours (not bad at all). Hopstop.com is now my favorite freelance tool to get around NY. There are other sites like hopstop.com, Google is working on creating something similar for Chicago and would possibly include sates like CA, NY, WA very soon. Google’s service is in fact based on Google Maps. Watch the video to learn more about this new tool from Google:
I spent few hours in getting my hands on Drupal for a new idea I had with a site for Freelance Job Feeds. Before I talk about the site, let me tell you, Drupal is a lot different than any other CMSes (especially Joomla). Although I am new to Drupal, going around it was too time taking than I thought. But the modules I used for the purpose of this site were actually a great fit.
The site is totally made in Drupal with major work involving with module Feed Aggregator. The site is built on a simple logic, all freelance job postings under one roof. I got RSS and Atom Feeds linked in to the site to provide real time job postings from sites like ifreelance.com, getafreelancer, elance.com, getacoder, rentacoder.com etc. Over the next few days I plan to spend some more time on design, layouts and better feed integration. Hopefully this site will benefit someone.
Today, the philosophical me was having good time thinking about how one’s life can change while in pursuit of wealth. Looking at myself few years back, I was never a reader, listener nor a thinker. Life has taught me valuable lessons throughout including importance of loving your family, loving what you do, and being honest to name a few. I wonder how things would be if one could just make money planting money in my backyard. One thing is for sure, it wont be this much fun to live.
Like most of the people living in USA, I recently joined 'the two jobs on shoulder' club. Working my ass off throughout the day as a software consultant and at night as a freelance web developer, this is my attempt at earning $1.1 million in 3 years. While this blog is mainly focused at freelancing, I take pleasure in writing about other things that interests me. If you like any of my posts, please do subscribe! And also keep an eye on my goals list ;) More
Getting around in New York could be time taking and also expensive. For all my visits to client locations in NY, I usually used to either drive all the way from NJ (currently located) or hire a cab half way. As you may have already noticed, it was a bad idea, but for someone new in NY, it could be the only way out.
