Archive for December, 2008

GTalk badge vs Plugoo Widget

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

I recently deployed a Gtalk badge and got rid of the buggy plugoobuddy chat window. I am happy to say that, this badge is keeping my status as accurate as it can get. For the first time I was chatting with more than one visitor at the same time. I have no idea whats the problem with plugoo but never use to keep my status accurate.

The only problem with Gtalk badge is it doesnt allow chatting right from the page, but instead you need to click on the badge for a popup chat window. This is ok, but I would like to see a Gtalk badge written in iframe so that my visitors can chat without a popup window.

Anyways, I decided to move to Gtalk badge because I wanted to be able to chat with my website visitors right from Gtalk (thats one and only thing I use) .

Optimized Iphone Theme for Wordpress

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

I installed a cool wordpress iphone theme from contentrobot.com that allows this site to open in a very simplified iphone web browser friendly way. The over all load time is less than half and it even automatically detects the client.

Over all a two thumbs up for the plugin+theme!

Web based Freelance Project Management Suite

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Ok, so I ran into an old friend of mine who also happens to be in IT industry as a hardcore .Net Programmer. We talked for a while, most of it of our old times and then moved to whats going on in our lives right now. We both were surprised to hear that none of us is actually doing the things we always wanted to do (create a cool app and make lots and lots of money). So we decided to spare sometime off our usual hectic work and work on creating something cool, something to be proud of or something that would make someone’s life little easy :)

We both pitched some ideas to each other then finally decided on a simple idea of mine (which I wanted to do since quite a long time) that would save a lot of time and money for new and experienced freelancers. We talked about making a hosted application which will be tailored for Freelancers and freelancers only that will allow them (including me!) to manage, administer and analyze their freelance business. Basically a combination of Project Management tools and custom report generation.

The birth of FPMS (Freelance Project Management Suite)
We started jotting down some features and ideas that we can incorporate into this system, especially for phase 1 of the project. We decided to use .Net as the technical platform (he managed to convince me :( !) and ajax for richer user interface.

The launch date
We already started development of FPMS long time ago and we expect to release beta 1 as an MSI (not hosted) which people can deploy on their servers with ease very soon.

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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

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