1. Twittering – will it fill my void?

    Most of you have probably noticed that I’ve not been blogging in recent weeks as much as I’d like at all. This mostly comes down to my long work day and my inability to spend my breaks posting up about more and more interesting things I find throughout my work day.

    In steps Twitter.

    Twitter gives me the ability to provide short updates that wouldn’t be posted up as blog posts and keep people up to date. Without further ado – if your a Twitter user you can add me at the following address:
    http://twitter.com/jhuskisson

    Feel free to leave your Twitter addresses in the comments too so everyone can Twitter about with each other that little bit more if they feel like it.

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  2. Myself and my company are available

    Myself and my company (which I will provide official details about in the coming weeks) are available for work effective immediately. We can take on most types of projects from Flash development to graphic design, print design, brand identity, illustration, web design, 3d visualisation, css/xhtml coding, search engine optimisation and web development.

    We take pride in providing great work in everything we do and I take pride in only using the best freelancers to get your required work done. If you would like a quote on any work at all then don’t hesitate to send an e-mail to me at me@jhuskisson.com

    I am personally available for booking individually too, but can assure you that all programmers that replace me at any stage of the development process (if you aren’t booking individually) are equally as talented as myself, if not better. We all take pride in prompt delivery and in client happiness and will be in constant touch with you throughout your project.

    I look forward to talking to anyone interested and will deal with everyone personally throughout their respective projects to ensure you are happy from quote to final delivery.

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  4. CSS/XHTML coder looking for regular work?

    Notice: Rolled have now found our XHTML/CSS developers and will offer a brilliant slicing service to all our customers. If you’re interested in getting a design developed into XHTML/CSS, then feel free to send me an e-mail at me@jhuskisson.com :)

    Original post below:

    I’m looking for a CSS/XHTML coder/company that can regularly provide me with a slicing and coding service with a quick turnaround for jobs. The reason being that a few of the new designers I will be using don’t CSS/XHTML code their layouts after designing and I have no time to do it myself.

    I’m not looking to pay silly prices, under $50-100 a layout/page and flexibility above anything else (most jobs are more than one page). You must be able to code to standards (transitional/strict) and you must be able to make the table-less layout compatible with IE6/IE7, Firefox, Opera and Safari.

    All work won’t be usable in a portfolio as it is work for my company (did I just let that slip?) and not on a direct basis. But CV entry/reference/offline portfolio entries I don’t have a problem with.

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  6. Finally, My-Tuts has returned to the internet

    Can you smell… what the rock… is cooking?

    Disclaimer: I had nothing to do with the development of this site. Only the original back in 2006

    Ok Ok, enough WWE copyrighted lines for today. But around 5 months ago I gave the My-Tuts domain away to a friend of mine, Nick Berlette to develop. The idea was to stay close to the original My-Tuts and the ‘idea’ around it all and it seems to have done an alright job of doing that.

    I personally don’t like the layout (and have told him that from the start), but I’m being told a new layout is already underway. The current layout is actually a rejected layout that was whipped up as an idea before I went ahead and did my own. It wouldn’t be too bad if they re-did the sidebar, removed the horizontal bar below the top navigation and spiced it up a little I don’t think.

    However the tagging system works well, and the forums have been improved somewhat over what was originally offered at My-Tuts. And the illustration on the labs page shows exactly why I love to use Richard Shilling for any illustrations. The guide is severely lacking, but Nick knows all this… so I’ll stop pointing things out and let you guys take a look :)

    Go look at My-Tuts and judge it accordingly here

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  7. Today’s a good day

    Today is one of those days where I wake up and say to my life ‘this is a good day’.

    I’ve been extremely busy lately finishing off two or three projects and talking a lot about a new one and last night I was up till just before 2am finishing off the last of those projects. The rush of finishing a project because you want to see it work beas the rush of finishing a project because you need a money any day of the week in my opinion, and this was one of those nights.

    Things are also improving in the clientel area with daily work enquiries and with an inheritance of several great clients coming up from a good friend of mine – things are only looking better and better. Add to that a possiblity of a cheap MacBook so I can change my working location around now and again too and I’m even happier, not to mention the possibility of moving to a new place of living fairly soon.

    The enquiries for the PHP freelancing helper position were simply outstanding and I’ve not had time to go reply to any just yet, but I’ll more than likely do this on Sunday. Whilst I’m on the subject there’s a little tip for a couple of the guys who applied who probably won’t get replies from me – two sentences won’t ever get you hired.

    I’m also looking for some more good freelance designers on my contact list if anyone wants to get in touch.

    LOST is good, Prison Break is good, House is good, 24 is good, Jericho is dead and buried (it has until the end of the season to redeem itself) and I’ve found a new show ‘The Black Donnellys’ thanks to a friend of mine which had the best pilot episode I’ve ever watched.

    Oh, and the 10,000 gamer points achievement goal was broken last weekend due to a weekend off ;)

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  8. Any PHP freelancers out there?

    I am currently no longer looking for PHP freelancers for my company. If you would still like to apply feel free to get in touch and if you’d like freelance PHP work doing also feel free to get in touch.

    The full post before edit, for archives sake:

    Simply put I’m getting daily job requests at the moment and I’m unable to handle them all. So I’m looking for a PHP freelancer to which I can pass on jobs to when I don’t have time to do them.

    If your interested please use my contact form or add me on any of the contact methods listed at the bottom of the contact page.

    Be sure to send:
    - Your level of experience
    - What your happy dealing with (large jobs, small jobs, wordpress, IPB, vB, mod_rewrite, css, xhtml etc.)
    - How often you are available
    - Typical rates (hourly, or per project based with examples)

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  10. Book review: Controversy Creates Cash

    controversy creates cash Book review: Controversy Creates CashI’ve just finished reading the brilliant book that is Controversy Creates Cash, written by Eric Bischoff with the help of Jeremy Roberts Book review: Controversy Creates Cash. The book is a autobiography, business and wrestling book all in one. It’s a fantastic read, especially if you grew up during the peaks of WCW and WWE during the ‘Monday Night Wars’.

    Not only is it a great insight into how the Turner Broadcasting/Time Warner and subsequent AOL/Time Warner mergers did nothing but slowly destroy WCW from the inside, but also a great insight into how it effected the product and the constraints it placed on what was at the time the top product in wrestling. Eric speaks honestly about a lot of things from his starting out in the wrestling industry to his first time stepping onto the WWE stage as RAW’s new general manager.

    What’s inspiring about the book is the complete (and sometimes blind) passion that Eric has for the wrestling business and how this drove his success and made him a multi-millionaire at the end of his WCW contract. How it took him to the top of the wrestling industry and how he was shocked to learn just how much work Vince McMahon did at the WWE.

    Anyone who grew up watching either WCW or the WWF during the monday night wars should read this book. Not only does it teach you a lot about the business, but gives insight that only Eric Bischoff could provide whilst giving a behind the scenes view on just what made WCW the company to watch during that period, and just what stopped a company that was seemingly unstoppable.

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