I’ve been searching for ways to make a few bucks on the side lately. Working with Tom is one way, but that’s alot of work. I always figured that there had to be an easier way and last week I think I finally found it.

Long ago I heard of a website called Scriptlance, a kinda “eBay” for programmers. People would post projects ranging from homework assignments to full web-portals, and then allow programmers to bid for the work. Theoretically this helps the people get the best deal for their money, and it gets alot of work out in the open. I never really thought it would work before, because you’ld have people undercutting for ridiculously low prices (college students, foreigners, etc). But, signup was free so I created an account and got to digging around. I have to admit I’m impressed.

I’ve finished 2 contracts through the website so far. Most of the work is pretty trivial stuff (for me anyway). But so far, the project that I’m most proud of is the ItsOnSirius.net project that I just wrapped up. It started as a small project to simply retrieve a text file of the current listing on Sirius Radio and generate a nice HTML table from it. A few hours with PHP later and it was done, easy. After that was running for a few days, he came back with another request for logging all the data into a MySQL database to allow for searching and playlists. That’s alot more ambitious, but a day or two of planning and 4 hours of coding later and it’s done and running. The guy is pleased with the results, and I found it pretty neat to do. I even got a chance to play with Plesk, a nice web-based system managment tool.

So I think I’m gonna keep doing the freelance programming thing for a while. It keeps me busy at nights and breaks up the monotony of games or movies every night. Plus, if I just take the minor jobs then I can easily take a day off. So if anyone out there reading this needs any work done, drop me a line… I just may take you up on it :)
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