a website to manage all aspects of freelancing !
Hi … i have been trying many tools till this date to make my freelancing chores at least a bit smoother, but i am still unable to find a right tool for my requirement. I am a single freelancer so i will not require the complex forms or features provided by some of the industries leading tools, i am a single man army so i will not require much specialised project management tools nor such people/resource management tools provided by the major tools in the trade, All i want is a SIMPLE tool that can manage my project at hand, do time allotment for me and also let me track my time used up and also help to Invoice my clients.
I know lots of tools and services nowadays facilitates all the things i have mentioned previously, but still i am unable to find a good SIMPLE one stop all solution to all my problems, a tool that have been developed solely for the freelancing community.
So I have decided to make one 
But my next issue was HOW ?
ok, we have a dozen or more application programming languages in the world so why worry ? Hmm there is a reason to my worry, and the reason is that since this being a non profit project for me i will not be able to dedicate much time to this project and to worsen the situation i need to allot time to learn new technologies too.
But what i believe is that there is a solution to all issues, so i have decided to develop this new application in ‘Ruby on Rails’ RoR, why RoR; i selected RoR due to two reasons
1. It seems they are the father of all ‘frameworks’ in PHP, so i will be able to learn some great stuff there
2. I have heard RoR propagates ‘Getting real’ concept which too will be a great learning curve for me and last but not the least the pure Joy of learning a new language to speak (of course to the computers )
So i want all the budding and already flourished freelancers out there to give me some inputs so that we can get the rock rolling
#= Waiting for all your comments =#
Anand Kanatt
Project 2: Peevees Public School
Filed under: ASP, Java Script, Microsoft Access, Projects/Products Worked on, Windows 2003
This project was done in ASP and Microsoft Access. This system facilitated parent, teacher and ward interaction also allowed the parents to access their ward’s report cards online. This system used a near realtime chat system to facilitate a conferencing facility between ward, ward’d parent and their class or subject teachers. This system utilised raw XML data and XSLT data formatting to display formatted report cards online.
Anand Kanatt
Project 1: Leonid Chemicals
Filed under: Java Script, MYSQL, PHP, Projects/Products Worked on
URL: http://www.leonidchemicals.com
This project was done using PHP and MySQL combo. This website facilitates the users to search for some product and place an order for the same. The whole thing works like a shopping cart except that no payment gateway integration has been done.
Anand Kanatt
Some life saving Dreamweaver Extentions
I recently found a few extentions for the dreamweaver developers. Take it from me - they are usefull.
EXT 1: DRUPAL API in Dreamweaver
EXT 2: JQUERY in Dreamweaver
EXT 3: Some extra tools for developers that you wished dreamweaver had.
These extentions were found at http://xtnd.us/
Make the best use of it all
Anand Kanatt
VUFind Installation on Cent OS 5
Wow completed installing VUFind Library System on CentOS 5 with Jetty Server.
I think i will write a tutorial on that in a few days time. I personally think VUFind is a neat piece of open source software.
I am currently working on extending the capabilities of that software.
Anand Kanatt