Jamie Huskisson — Hero-in-chief at JH. Life-long business owner and former freelance Magento/PHP developer of seven years.
This appeared upon me entering my rolled.at e-mail address in on a site, despite me also entering my UK address and UK post code, and UK phone numbers. Darn that Austrian domain name for uncovering my true foreign identity.…
Seth Godin just posted a rare video of himself doing a full presentation. This presentation is on the music business and takes place at Columbia Records. The video…
Consider the situation: Student’s receive reading lists of fifty books to read for an assignment. Their local University library has five of each book, and there’s two hundred…
“We love freelancers, to find out why, sign up for free to learn more” “We can offer you the best extreme ironing forum on the planet, sign up to learn more” “This service will rock your knickers off, sign up to learn more” Why do certain sites suggest you sign up to learn more about…
For the newcomers, BT Business provide the broadband and phone line for businesses, with the key promotion being that you get much better support. I don’t want to get into a rant, but in my opinion BT Business represents one of the worst organised companies I’ve ever come across. To back this opinion up, here’s…
My company Rolled Limited launched our official blog recently. This means that JHuskisson.com will go back to my opinion and articles on freelancing/general issues and Sausage Roll will become the official company blog about client launches, job openings, hostile company take overs and occasionally, articles that will help our clients and/or companies like ourselves. Changes…
About 90-95% of applicants to job applications I post up elsewhere find my blog somehow and compliment me on it in the opening paragraph of their e-mail. Given this I thought I’d throw some nugget-sized wisdom bombs in front of the eager young eyes of those applicants so they can better their application, or not…
Out of the past 20-30 designers I’ve received CV’s from only one has been designed well enough for me to get a good impression of the designer, and it wasn’t created in Word. It was two pages and contained links to his recent work, some thumbnails and was fully branded. It didn’t contain: his education…
I (and Rolled) are looking to bring in a designer we can use on all our design work, from designing the Rolled site and internal client management system to working directly with our extensive client portfolio, with some household names awaiting us appointing someone for the position. We need someone in the UK or Europe,…
I constantly hear people complaining that they aren’t getting what they want out of college, that they can do it alone and that they don’t want to be taught ‘behind the times’ ASP and that their college needs to be brought into the ‘current day teaching techniques’ – so here’s why I think all that…