UPDATE: There’s no location requirement. I kind of assume that I’m not going to find the best people by geographically limiting my search for potential partners. 🙂 Me: Live in Princeton, NJ area. Over 10 years experience with UNIX/Linux administration, databases and data modeling, and PHP/Perl. About 3 years experience using Python for back-end scripting…
Category: Freelancing
The Neverending Search for “Free” Wi-Fi
So, I’m a freelancer. I work a lot on remote machines as a system administrator, a troubleshooter of LAMP stacks and web applications, etc. I also do a little bit of web development (but not design. I’m a horrible designer). I work from home a lot. I used to work outside of the home a…
You Might Be a Freelancer…
If you’ve ever used your lunch hour to vacuum your pool… If you’ve ever discounted your rate to work on something really cool… If your spouse has ever complained about the mountain of receipts in the basement… If you work 8 hours a day… and 3-5 hours a night… If you’ve ever spent an entire…
LinuxLaboratory woes, Drupal -> Django?
Ugh… So, today I tried browsing to one of my sites, linuxlaboratory.org, and found a 403 “Forbidden” error. Calling support, they said it was a “billing issue”. Well, I pay my bills, and I haven’t received any new credit cards, so I’m not sure what that’s about. Further, they haven’t contacted me in any way…
I’m Offering Pro-Bono Consulting
I started my company about a year ago, but I’ve been doing consulting for a long time. In fact, my first job in the IT industry was working for a consulting firm. Before that, starting as far back as grade school, I was involved in a lot of volunteer civic and community service activities. I…
Training Patterns
So, I’ve been talking to some friends about training. I work with several firms in various aspects of training. Usually I’m actually delivering training, but in some cases I’m just helping to produce the training content, and occasionally I actually help build a full-fledged internal training regimen. I love doing this work, because it lets…
My first screencast: The Linux Boot Process
So, I’ve taught the Linux Boot Process as part of a couple of different training courses now, and I thought I’d share it with the world in the form of a screencast (it’s hosted at my co.’s site). This is also a test to help me figure out how to “do screencasts”, generally. The material…
More Lessons in Freelancing
So, I’ve been freelancing now for 9 months. I did a post a while back about what was working and what wasn’t, and I still stand by those recommendations. But that was over 6 months ago. Since then a lot of things have happened. I’m happy to report that, so far, things are going great….
Fedora Directory Server on RHEL 4 and 5, Pt. 1
The last time I had to do a NIS->LDAP migration, it was in a heterogenous environment with Solaris and Linux boxes, and it was around 2004 or so. Although I hit some rough patches adjusting to changes in how FDS is packaged, the community was awesome, and helped me get back up to speed in…
Heading to Chicago
I’ll be landing in Chicago tonight, assuming all goes well. I’ll be there through Jan 23. If there are any Linux User Groups, LOPSA meetings, Python user groups, or anything else cool (a brewer’s club maybe?) then find me on twitter (bkjones), or shoot me an email (same name, at gmail). I’m teaching courses on…