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I am a web applications developer / programmer with experience in a plethora of web languages and frameworks. I am an avid user of the Codeigniter PHP Framework and the jQuery JavaScript framework.

I am a self-taught enthusiast with no formal qualifications, but has managed to score some awesome jobs over the last 3 years.

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Nov 27	comment	How to be recognised? I thought Frenchie's answer was helpful so I upvoted. Don't know why it was downvoted, all good online multiplayer games have a video showing off the game it's a tried and tested method of luring new players.
Jun 14	comment	Do my prices make me seem unprofessional? Should I even list them? Even one project is good if you can talk yourself up. Don't be afraid to exaggerate the work you've done previously if you're comfortable with what you're saying and can back the words up with your skills. I'm not ashamed to say I've over-embellished what I've done on some of my portfolio work pieces when vying for client work, I never go over my own head and say I did something when I obviously didn't. 3-5 projects is a more than ideal number and eventually once you do more projects you'll find you will only want to list the impressive projects and leave some of them out.
Jun 12	comment	Do my prices make me seem unprofessional? Should I even list them? Not really having any work will make it significantly harder. However, unless your employer objects you can usually list sites you've worked on via your employer as long as you mention that on your site it's what I do. I understand some employers don't allow that, but it's rare they don't unless you're doing secretive web projects. If not, you'll have to start small and work your way upwards. Everyone does a starting crap site or two with a troublesome client for little cash but once you have that experience you can raise the bar and be more picky/demanding with your clients and work.
May 21	comment	Server costs for video startup Tell Instagram, Pinterest and a lot of other well-known startups using Amazon EC2 that cloud hosting is unaffordable. The complexities in buying your own machine, backing your data up, sharding your databases onto multiple servers is eased via cloud hosting. Cloud hosting virtually pays for itself once you encounter your first scaling configuration issues. It's easy to bump up your RAM than it is to open up a machine and replace the RAM in a data centre.
May 21	comment	Server costs for video startup The advantage of using cloud hosts if they do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. They take care of scaling for you (mostly). Owning your own servers is one thing, but cloud providers are great if you don't know what kind of traffic to expect. What's to say you build an amazing machine then find that the few thousands of dollars you spent wasn't enough? Most people don't have another few thousand to offload onto another server, then there's the issue of scaling your codebase and database across the multiple servers, not an easy feat for the non-technical minded.
May 21	comment	Server costs for video startup See my answer. Storage is only half of the picture here, you need a server just to process that data and you also need a database server that stores all meta info about the videos, users and other content, then you need a server for the static content.
Mar 23	comment	Can I run a web-based Non-Profit Org while living abroad? Great advice Krzysztof.
Mar 23	comment	Should I blog with print, audio, or video? I have voted to close this question, sorry. Questions about blogging are outside of the OnStartups FAQ.
Mar 22	comment	Does Google work with audio and video? I also voted this as not constructive. This is not a startup related question at all. Definitely a webmasters question.
Mar 22	comment	How to evaluate a lawyer? @Karlson no worries mate. I just created a topic on meta, I could be over-analysing the validity of this question, as I'm sort of confused myself.
Mar 21	comment	How to evaluate a lawyer? @NetTecture This whole question is useless. This site is meant to be about startups, yet this question is asking a subjectively vague question nobody can ever truly answer. From the FAQ itself: "Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page." this question needs to be closed, this is chatter and not beneficial to anyone.
Mar 21	comment	How to evaluate a lawyer? The real question here is how do you evaluate someone on something you know something about? Hardly see what the downvotes were for. The point wasn't all lawyers know the same thing, they all have a basic understanding of the law regardless of what they specialise in, much like all doctors & nurses learn the same thing until they specialise in something. If you have to ask how to evaluate a lawyer you'll most likely never know how to evaluate one. How do you evaluate a bad mechanic even if they fix your car and it works, how do you evaluate they've done things correctly if you aren't one?
Mar 18	comment	Whats my next step? His question is clear to me. He outlined the steps he has taken to make his idea a reality, and wants to know what he should do now he has the prototype, patent pending and friends wanting to invest.
Jan 13	comment	Buying a low-budget server. What is important ? High traffic? +1 for AWS. Unrivalled hosting that keeps getting better, however it is worth pointing out you don't get a nice little Cpanel interface for managing your site like a lot of people are used too, so be prepared to dive into the command line.
Jul 28	comment	Evaluating a “Promise” from a startup company for pay raise, benefits, stock options within a specified period of time? Sorry for the late response, I didn't realise you left a comment after your last one. If you haven't already, I would ask him to put in writing that in 2 months you will receive a pay rise, benefits and everything else he promised you. A written promise will be upheld in a court of law if things go the opposite of what you've been promised.
Jul 18	comment	How to source deals for my daily deals website start up? Sadly this is off the table for the moment. Launch page and whatnot are up, I went and spoke to businesses in person which seems to have worked in my favour. I've got a few local stores and whatnot to offer up a few deals, some of which have even used Scoopon and Cudo before, so we'll see how the site goes. Hoping to launch in a couple of months, sourcing a few months worth of deals so I don't have to stress so much for a while and focus on other aspects of the site.
Jun 28	comment	Using a Rotating Banner on a Home Page? Hey, thanks for asking a question. Your question would be better suited to a site like StackOverflow than Answers. Your question relates to web development and usability testing more-so than an internet startup.
Jun 16	comment	Need simple pre-launch website to attract mgmt. team, investors, and co-marketing alliances I second Themeforest. They not only have Wordpress themes, but also sell landing pages and coming soon pages for this very thing.
Jun 14	comment	Redirect user for payment or let them stay on your site? @Investigator, not to mention if your money is stolen, third party payment providers like Paypal have some kind of protection up to a specific amount of which they will refund in suspicious circumstances, but so too will banks.
Jun 6	comment	What are the best ways of advertising a new green-technology product to angel investors It applies to Angel Investors as well. Without proof the startup works and people will use it, nobody will invest anything.