Hello, I’m Deb. I'm a freelance application developer based in the UK.
I've been working almost exclusively with Ruby (and Rails) for the last couple of years and the nine years I've been in the industry has included much Perl, Java, PHP & databases on UNIX systems, generally for the web. I'm an experienced developer, and take pride in building clean, well thought out and tested solutions. Read more...
Going Solo - Conference for Freelancers
Going Solo looks like a fab conference to go to if you’re a freelancer or small business. It’s the first of it’s kind, and anything that helps fast-track your learning on the practical skills I certainly overlooked when first starting out as a freelancer has to be worth it’s salt.
So get yourself over to Lausanne in Switzerland (it’s near Geneva) on 16th May - there’s even a 10% discount for GeekUp members - enter GEEKUPSPC on registration! Also of note is the bring a friend discount which gives groups 10% off for 2 people, 15% for 3 people and so-on until you reach 25%.
Read on for a quick overview of what Going Solo offers you (lifted from the site):
GeekUp Leeds - tomorrow (Wed 16th April), 6pm
I’m pleased to announce the 11th GeekUp Leeds! We’re back in the Lounge again after a couple of months away, so head on over, we have a fantastic schedule for you!
This month we’re lucky enough to have 2 talks:
- James McGivern on “Maven, Ant Killer?”
- Lorna Mitchell on “Enterprise Web Development”
There’s just about time for another ad-hoc 20:20 if anyone feels the need!
Details:
- When: 6:00 PM Wednesday 16th April, 2008 (Talks start at 7:00PM)
- Where: The Lounge, St. Johns House, Merrion St, Leeds LS2 8JE
- Photo of the the Lounge
- GeekUp web site
- 20:20 presentation format
Photos on Flickr...
