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Portfolio updated

Monday, September 13th, 2010

I’ve just added Twinbro into the Codeistry Portfolio, another job in my queue of jobs that need adding. I’d used the Twinbro website in my Sorfolio, so I thought I’d better put them onto the main portfolio site too.

Screenshots sowing the difference between the two Inkscape Image Supersample settings

I’ve also updated all the thumbnail images in the portfolio, after I figured out which Inkscape setting was degrading the quality. If you go into Inkscape Settings, then Bitmaps and set the ‘Oversample bitmaps’ setting to ’16×16′, you’ll get much nicer anti-aliasing on your bitmaps, especially if you’re rotating or resizing them.

I also took the opportunity to resize the thumbnails to make them a bit larger and to tidy up the formatting of the older ones, which looks much better.

Codeistry now on Sortfolio

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Screenshot of the current Sortfolio page for Vancouver, showing the Codeistry entry, with a 'New' sticker.

I just added Codeistry to Sortfolio, 37Signals portfolio hosting/aggregating thing for web developers. As usual for 37Signals stuff, Sortfolio is very slick, simple and easy to use. The only thing that I didn’t really like is the budget range – it doesn’t really fit my experience:

Sortfolio Budget Ranges: $3,000 and under; $3,000-$10,000; $10,000-$25,000; $25,000-$50,000; Over $50,000Codeistry jobs are significantly more variable than these categories allow; I could really do with a ‘$100 – $10,000′ category. I don’t really want to drive away interesting smaller clients by saying that I only care about jobs that are over $3000, but I also do $10,000 jobs occasionally too. Hmmm…

Anyway, I’ll be updating the Codeistry entry over the next few days, adding more examples and screenshots. I’ll assess things in a couple of weeks and let you know if it works – and if I actually get any leads and new business via Sortfolio.

The Cobblers Kids

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

“The Cobblers children have no shoes” – it’s an old expression but it’s very true – a busy cobbler will be so busy making shoes for customers that he has no time to make shoes for his own children. As Cobblers, so Web Developers, apparently.

Anyway, I’ve now carved out some time in my schedule to devote solely to working on my own stuff, so I’ll be keeping this site up to date from now on.

As a start, I’ve added a new job to the portfolio. A ‘new’ website for The Cambridge Interfaith Programme, completed at the end of 2009. I have a queue of other jobs to add, so expect to see a load more turning up soon.

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