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Freelancing, half a year in.

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Re: Freelancing, half a year in.

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The first thing I do when starting a new project is get everyone on git. If the project is far along and is using svn, I can live with that ... sort of. The next thing I do is explain that I will be spending more time for coding upfront because I will introduce testing into the project. These are not negotiable.

I'd be interested to know how you sell git to your clients. I have listed all the positive benefits of version control in detail to my clients and still have the idea rejected due to it being an "unnecessary complication"...

Clients don't really care what tools I use. I just tell them what I'm going to need to provide the guarantees we both signed in the contract.

Other developers can be trickier, but it's very simple to get logical people on the path of version control if you override their changes once or twice. (usually unintentionally)

Actually, the only time I've encountered zero version control, I simply refused to start working until git was introduced into the project.

Re: Freelancing, half a year in.

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post #20

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I went from GBP 33k to 40k within a year after graduating, in 2001. This was for an investment bank though. (London)

Banking/finance does seem to be the industry which breaks the standard, especially in London. I think I've mentioned here before, but I know a friend of a friend who supposedly earns £50k a year as a Java developer for a bank, but didn't know what a constructor was. The mind boggles.

Probably because he never used one, all his classes came from factories :)
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