Freelancers typically can’t count on steady paychecks in the same way regular employees can. And while freelancing is flexible and full of opportunities, most freelancers will agree a variable income in a world of regular expenses is a large stressor. The solution? A steady and balanced freelance portfolio that has enough clients of the [...]
Stijn Schutyser
When it comes to mobile app development, there are many thing to consider: the purpose of your app, its target audience, supported platforms, app performance, …. The list goes on and on. However, there is one thing that always makes the top 3 and is absolutely crucial: mobile app design. A good mobile design increases convenience, [...]
Yakup Kalin
Writing compelling business proposals is vital to the survival of your business. A business proposal is compelling when it tells the reader why they should pick you instead of one of your competitors. But writing a compelling business proposal is far from easy. This blog post lists a few concrete tips and offers some more explanation on [...]
Stijn Schutyser
What matters the most in the way teams work? Google did some extensive research on effective teams. They investigated over 150 teams during 2 years and found 5 key dynamics of successful teams. In this blog post, we’ll discuss these 5 indicators and how to achieve the most important one. And guess what, having amazing people is NOT one [...]
Stijn Schutyser
We have already written a blog post about how to determine your daily rate as an IT freelancer in 5 steps, but that didn’t include an explanation on how to set your fees for particular gigs. In this blog post, we’ll teach you 4 strategies to set the fees that feel right for you. 1. Track your time Setting a correct fee begins with [...]
Stijn Schutyser
Delivering a project to a support team is a bit like bringing a cake to the office on your birthday. If you zoom in on the cake-bringing process, there are indeed some comparisons to supporting a project. In both situations, you have to consider… the load. How many colleagues will there be to have a bit of your cake? the choices [...]
Jelle Van der Linden
Invisible design is simple and elegant and does not attract attention to itself, it allows users to achieve their goals fast with minimal effort, maximum efficiency. In short, invisible design creates user experiences that are so natural, they feel ‘invisible’: not artificially designed. The best recognizable example of [...]
Yildiray Günay
In this blog post, we share our view on DevOps. This isn’t an in-depth technical article, but rather a high level overview of our workflows and methods. We’ll discuss our DevOps flows in application development and how we implement the same principles in our infrastructure workflows. We’ll also go over an area which we’re still exploring [...]
Jelle Van Hees
For a recent project, we developed an Angular application that uses Liferay DXP as the back-end. In this Angular application, we regularly send requests into the Portal back-end for User information, Journal Articles and so on. Mostly, this works great because we’ve defined several custom REST endpoints in DXP that allow us to make use [...]
Koen Olaerts
We already established online marketing is a must for freelancers in part 1 of this miniseries, where we discussed marketing yourself through social media and your own website. Now it’s time to look at the role of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), blogging and email newsletters in marketing yourself online as a freelancer. Search Engine [...]
Stijn Schutyser
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