On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Peter Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Apr 11, 2011, at 8:29 PM, xyz wrote: > > > Is there enough business for one man operations out there? > > There is a *huge* amount of business out there. I do Java, Groovy/Grails, > C#, ColdFusion and Python and I'm pretty well known in the Groovy and Java > communities as I speak at a bunch of conferences, but these days most of my > projects are in Ruby/Rails and I'm turning down projects on a regular basis. > > It always helps if you have good client communication skills, know agile > processes (kanban, scrum, lean, etc), understand best practices for > requirements and estimation and do a good job of managing your projects. > It's a real bonus if you understand architecting for scale, know about NoSQL > data stores, and have a handle on writing APIs for mobile and are at least > proficient with jQuery, CSS and HTML5. It's nice if you have a good testing > story and are comfortable with cucumber, capybara, factory_girl, rspec and > vcr with fakeweb, and you want to be competent with the really common gems - > Devise, Cancan, OmniAuth, Paperclip, etc. And ideally you'll have a > craftsmans feel for good naming, separation of concerns, open/closed classes > and API design. > > But honestly, if you've finished Rails for Zombies, don't swear at your > clients (unless they deserve it :) ) and can almost hold a conversation > you'll probably be overloaded with work. > I am curious what others are doing to market themselves... personally the bulk of my work or inquiries comes from a past employer as well as just people I meet by 'chance', that so I dont really have a strategy, it has just happened. And maybe that is just it for me is that I just go with the flow and who is in front of me. Interested if others are more focused or strategy driven in this respect? > > Best Wishes, > Peter > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
