I agree. oDesk has been great for me - nothing but good experiences. The key is to set up a good profile that differentiates you from the cheap workers.
Wow. The word "kanban" in the title caught my attention so I thought I'd take a look. I currently work (for another week anyway) on the finance team for an aerospace manufacturing firm so we are very familiar with kanban and other lean principles. Little did I know lean principles (even Kanban?) are working their way into the software development world!
This is all the more interesting since I've just taken a position as the financial operations manager for a web/finance startup in Atlanta. Good to know that some of the cool lean principles and tools can translate into my new environment! Definitely something to look into...
I wouldn't worry. The article says that EtherPad share's some features with Wave but the main interest in their technology might be the ability to operate behind firewalls(?). EtherPad's text editing features will probably (hopefully) get rolled into Google Doc's text editor.
The start and finish of the race are located at fixed points. If you're racing on tidal rivers near the coast, where most of our regattas were, the current varies widely throughout the day. Say it's a 5k head-race starting upstream and coming down towards the sea. At high and low tide you're essentially racing with no (or very little) current - much like a lake. When the tide is coming in, you'd be racing against it and a 5k race can take 20 or more minutes. If you're lucky and your race heat starts when the tide is going out, that same race will take 15 or less minutes.
I rowed in college, we experimented with different riggings (including arrangement 'a' from the article) and found that, indeed, bucket-rigging and others seemed to yield good times. There were other variables though, strength of the current, wind, how intense our hangovers were... so it's hard to attribute it to just the different arrangements. I will say that sitting in an arrangement where the guy in front/behind has his oar on the same side as you leaves very little room for error. If you don't get that oar up and out at the finish you'll hit oars and crab for sure.
Hi quizbiz, I've added my info to your site but some fields got (severely) truncated. I am, in fact, not a lamp, but a LAMP / Android developer :) You may want to add some "maxlength" attributes to your form fields, or else expand your database field length to accommodate more info. Thanks!
It definitely would be faster to simply replace it with the 'echo' statement, but you need to decide if you might want to offer your website in different languages in the future. If internationalization is a possibility then you should keep it the way it is so that you can use different language files.
3 kids. I agree, having children increased my focus and discipline immensely.
However, as time goes by I'm realizing that it's going to be extremely difficult (nearly impossible) to spend the time I need to spend between my normal job and family requirements to getting my web app and associated business up and running. I'm keeping at it, though.