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  Joel Spolsky Tries To Discredit Independent Consultants

  [via Scoble , via Christopher Hawkins ] – Seems like Joel Spolsky has very little respect for independent consultants (like me) and thinks that we are not a “startup” or an entrepreneur. There are lots of reasons why people would like Read More... Posted Thursday, December 16, 2004 7:21 PM by donxml | 1 Comments

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  Why Shouldn’t Authors Self-Publish?

  Maybe I’m a bit naïve about the whole book publishing industry, but I can’t really figure out why most tech author use major publishing houses to release their books. I have only work on one book (as a tech reviewer for Kurt Cagle’s Read More... Posted Friday, May 07, 2004 11:55 AM by donxml | 41 Comments

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  Consultant Rate Worksheet

  I put up my first cut on a worksheet that you can use to convert Consultant rates to/from FTE Salaries. There have been a few discussions ( summarized by Darrel Norton) regarding consulting lately, and I hope to document some of the issues when trying Read More... Posted Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:22 AM by donxml | 2 Comments

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  Finding Consulting Jobs

  Lots of conversations on consulting or getting into consulting , so I guess I should persist some of the things I’ve learned along the way. I’ve got a bunch of stuff and since it isn’t exactly technical in nature, I’ll post them all in my Grok This feed Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2003 4:22 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

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