Don Xml's Grok This

[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 to see indies eliminated from the marketplace (mostly because they either want to limit ...

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 SVG Programming book) and have been approached a bunch of times to work on others, but ...

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 to compare a consulting rate to a FTE salary.  Please let me know of any ...

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 instead of my pure tech feed.  I guess the economy is getting better if people are looking ...