June 05, 2003
The e-Marketplace for freelancer shrinked
The job on-line agency Guru.com is going to end its service end of this month. That’s one of the doors closed for freelancers. Once in a while, there were many sites open for job/work exchange. And they did bring lots of companies to seriously look into outsourcing option. Engineers came from place like India giving much lower price to contracted software, it’s pretty attractive especially the software in small scale.
However, according to the article, there are less work exchange nowadays. What really happen? It seem globally sinked economy’s side effect. While the global environment start back to normal slowly, small companies choose not to spend, big-corp choose secured partners. Is this the cause? I don’t know. Free-lancing market in Malaysia is still OK, but freelancers really can’t expect much at the mean time, unless they did have pretty good contacts.
New Mozilla Book on-line
Creating XPCOM Components, by Doug Turner and Ian Oeschger, is published on-line. The hardcopies would be available this August. It is licensed under Open Publication License. Thanks go to the authors and Mozilla community, publisher to make this great resource available on-line.
Another Mozilla book, Creating Applications with Mozilla, was published around 9 months ago, which is also available on-line. Great to see more Mozilla books published, it did help to create more Mozilla-powered application. As Mozilla isn’t just a browser, it’s more than a browser, it’s a framework.
Miscellaneous update/Random thought
Wow, adot’s notblog has brought quite some traffic to my blog. I saw his update on 3 Firebird goodies just while I was going to post them, might as well quoted his:
If you’re looking for more on Mozilla Firebird then don’t miss don’t miss David Tenser’s amazing Firebird Help site, Ben Goodger’s great Reasons to switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser doc and Minh Truong’s 10 incredible Mozilla Firebird features (and how to use them) page.
[update] One more: 101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot
My intention was actually promoting Mozilla to IE users. To further think about it, sometimes all great posts regarding Mozilla just didn’t make sense to those novice users. Technical geek seem easily pick up the switch and enjoy it. Normal users might need some mentor to hint them, little training would be more helpful. Then what’s the best time for these people to switch, since they don’t seem bother to know/care all the goodies of Mozilla (Firebird)? It’s time when their everyday browser having problem! For example, my sister, a typical IE user, has an easy switch while her IE having a localisation problem, and enjoy it ever after.
My performance of first interview seem not excellent enough to get its second try. There are 2 more days for this week and they still haven’t called me, think my chance has gone…
Then I got a chance to talk to a ex-boss for some business oppurtunity. It looks like I really want to leave. But not really. People used to be conservative on moving on because of the uncomfortable feeling of leaving familiar environment — you got your territory in office even though you don’t have a room! Besides that, I was just lazy to leave. Sometimes I was so fed-up with the management, sometimes I could just bear with that. Once the up-and-down period passed, you’d back to normal and feel secured. Nevertheless, one for sure would be lossing my enthusiasm once staying long enough.