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Tapirs accounting for 78% of the world economic output? Pikachus in a blender? I think he's finally lost it.

"So our product needs managers and our product is built by developers who need managers and process to organize how the build is managed? All this to support a level of accountabil…

This is my general opinion regarding freelancing as well; I have every intention of building a product company and no interest in "consulting". Would you say, if worse comes to wor…

Thanks Yuri! I appreciate your support, or at least constructive evaluation :) I'm familiar with the book - I'll give it a go. As for my areas, mostly I'm finding people looking fo…

You sound confused. This is the better option.

Who can recommend good books/articles on negotiation? And. How about good freelance/temp resources to pay bills until I become ramen-profitable or secure funding? Perhaps the secon…

http://trureputation.com/

Why would you only learn one of them? Learn every language you can. Learn them well enough to love and hate each for 5 different reasons. Learn them well enough to know which shoul…

If you're really concerned about it you can go through an anonymizing proxy service. But, as has been said, if you have the time, spacing out your requests should work fine too.

Thanks! +1

waldrews: I have some freelancing bandwidth if you have an interesting project. My email is in my profile while yours is not; send me a line and we'll chat.

I succeeded in transitioning my workplace out of the dark ages about a year go; I chose Spring. If nothing else, use the IOC container and AOP. While it cannot reduce the xml-sit-u…

Depends. Do you know anyone already using any of these languages? The path to enlightenment is almost always more easily tread when you have someone hiking it with you. If no, choo…

For the curious, I've had the recent misfortune of working with JBOSS at work; this sounds identical to how it provides form-based authentication. For the curious: http://wiki.jbos…