It is very important in a project that: You are understood by the other programmers and You understand the other programmers. That is why in evey programming language there are Coding Standards (CS). These CS make the source code be easy read and easy modified by any coder in the team. Here are a few CS that should be applicable in most projects:

• one instruction per line
• local variables should only have small letters and “_” should be the word separator
• Global variables should be all CAPITALIZED
• Variables and functions should have names that clearly say what it is/does. Ex: Don’t have variable named “var1″ or functions called “doSomething()”
• Don’t make long and tweaked commands , except it is absolutely necessary, in witch case they should be well documented with //comments
• No bugs in the programming

The Coding Standards are very usefull when working in a team. In a big project there are some problems that need to be very well know. For example what happens in two people work on the same file in the very same time? Each does modifications and after they upload it to the server ONLY ONE will be visible (the other one will be over-written). Also, if someone finds a problem/bug, how does he report it fast to the entire team? Also, it is very important to be a Revision Control. In case a bad change is made to the project, there always is the posibilitty to roll-back to a previous version.

Also, SVN can work on more branches at the same time. There is a main branche (the projects itself) and other auxiliar branches (modules, other features and stuff like that). At the end, all these branches can be merged into one full and working project.

SVN is really easy to work with. All changes are made locally on the work computer and after that the modifications are uploaded onto the server. The users sees these as a clasic directry/file structure (as in Windows Explorer).

Here are a couple of usefull resources:

1. C++ Coding Standard – http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html
2. Indent – http://www.gnu.org/software/indent/
3. CodeCheck – http://www.abxsoft.com/codchk.htm
4. Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
5. TortoiseSVN - http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/
6. Trac - http://trac.edgewall.org/

Article inspired by Valentin Stanciu

Like I said, this is a new search engine. Many say that this will replace Google some day in the future. We can’t be sure of this now because it is only at the begining. Others say that it is just another website that will fail very soon. The desing of the main page is simple. A black page with a search box and a search button on it. Also the Cuil logo is visible. Nothing very spectacular stands out. But, as we already learned, in a search engine, not the design is important, but the search results. Well, when you search, the first unique feature of Cuil is visible. The search results aren’t shown in a list like Google’s, yahoo’s or any other search engine. They are grouped in three columns. Also, the text right under the title is a litle longer than the one from Google.

OK! So until now just a fancy, but not very important, arangement. But is it any good? I have put cuil to the test. The first thing I have searched was SF-Zone.net (this website’s URL). It did have my website as it’s first result, but as the text result was just: “Copyright 2008 - SF-Zone.net”. I expected the last article I wrote (like in other search engines) but I asked for too much. Other results (2490) are from different directories or forums that link to this website.  Next I did a search for “SF-Zone”. Strangely, my website’s title was in the first result, but it was from a directorie my website was posted in. My website was just the 9 result.

Next search: “google”. Here another unique feature was visible. At the top there of the results there is a menu with a few tabs: “Google Search”, “Google Earth”, “Google Groups” and “more”. these tabs take you to the search result for that term. Another unique feature is that a widget is visible on the page that gives you the posibility to explroe the results by category.

Next I decided to really put it to the test. So I searched for “Image Hosting script”. this really messed the search results. All the results contained “image Hosting” and linked to image hosting website (similar to imageshack) no one actually gave me an Image hosting script (similar to the one on my website).

As a conclusion. It does offer some interesting features, but most of the search results are bad and not relevant. It has potential, but right now I will stick to google. They still have a lot of work to do until they can compete with Ask, MSN, Yahoo and finally Google. Will they succed? We will just have to wait and see.

On Sunday 11:23PM my train came back. I was at a very important contest for youg programmers (like me). The contest, called Infoeducation, has a long tradition and is held for 14 years. This was my first time there and I was very pleased with what I did. I had a really big eLearning project for phisics. The project took my team one year to make it. The team was composed of me as both designer and programmer, Timo as the programmer and Laura for the phisics part.

I was the only one from the team that went there. I presented the project and waited for the results. The best 5 projects go into “Open” where one member of the team has to make a completly new project in just 24 hours. No Internet conection, no telephone, just our knowledge and software that we need. I was in the first 5. In those 24 hours I had to do an eLearning software for children to learn 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade math.

If you want the game for your website you can download it here: Spreadsheet escape

Contents had proven to bee a really good marketting solution. The contest will help me promote my eBook and in the same time can give you one nice domain name: diggexchange.net. The domain is registered at domainrightnow.com and still hase a few month left. It is an undeveloped domain name but I am sure it has a lot of potential. The winner will also get a copy of the ebook.

So, What must you do? I have made two landing pages for my eBook. All you have to do is make a small article on your website/blog about this ebook and post a link to one of these landing pages. After that post a comment with the link to the article so I can approve it. If you have more websites/blogs you can post on each one and this will give you more chances to win.

Also, if you post an article about this contest you get another chance to win.

The landing pages are:

marketing-ebook.blinkweb.com/ and marketing-ebook.weebly.com/ You will find there all the information you need about the ebook.

So happy posting

In this ebook I have written all you need to know in order to start your first successful website. Here you will find many useful links, marketing tips and how to earn money after you have build your website.
The ebook has 8 chapters:
- Website idea and targeted visitors
- Website design and coding
- Domain name and hosting
- Website content
- Website SEO
- Staying in touch with your visitors
- Promoting your website
- Earning from your website

As you can see it covers everything there is on making a successful website.

Sadly not to many peopl had participated in the pool, but the ones that participated where both newbyes and proffesionals on internet marketing. Some have only a few squidoo lense, while others have mroe than 100. Of course, the more you have, the more you will earn. Also, not many people share the earning with squidoo so they can give to charity.  The categories they have lenses are very variate, but one thing is for sure: The lenses help to bring more traffic to the owner’s website.

Here you can view the pool results: Pool Results Spreadsheet

Here are a couple of tips that helped me get started. Hopefully some of you will find it useful.

Join Elance

I expect a couple of hate posts for this suggestion. I’ve read multiple posts that bash this site for charging a monthly fee and a percentage of earnings. However, I found that this site gives better quality jobs than other freelance sites and I can make 10 times my monthly fee easily.

You can open a free account if you don’t want to spend the $10/month in the beginning, but you only get three connects which are basically three chances to bid on a job. I find that my bid is chosen for around 20% of the projects I bid on. I can influence this percentage somewhat by altering my bidding price for jobs- bringing me to my next point.

Alter Your Pay Rate

I got this idea when I read about a program that changes the price of event tickets based on demand. If there are a lot of people buying the tickets, the program automatically raises the price. When people stop buying, the price falls until the buying picks up again. I thought that formula would apply well to freelance writing.

Since my profile doesn’t have a lot of completed jobs, I tend to bid very competitively. Once I start getting work, I up my bids. The busier I get, the higher I bid. This system seems to work well because it allows you to raise your rates naturally until you find equilibrium.

The system works because as you get busier you’re bidding higher and taking on higher paying clients. When those clients become regulars, your minimum bid goes up because you’re backed up with higher paying work. The unfortunate end is that you may have to drop some of your lower paying clients. However, you might be surprised at how many won’t mind paying you a higher rate.

Conventional wisdom says to charge what you’re worth and stick with it. However, newbies like us don’t have the luxury of turning away work. By raising your rates to match your workload, you can work on getting higher paying clients without going through long stretches without work (and money).

Run It Like A Business

The people who use you consistently are people who need professionals who deliver high-quality content on time. In my mind, the only reason to miss a deadline is if the client is not ready to take delivery. You can find good writers and good business people, but it’s much more difficult to find people who are both. If you write well and conduct yourself professionally, you shouldn’t have any problems finding work.

Article by Randy Laboy

You are free to download this wonderfull ebook. I know it is a short one (less than 4 pages) but it covers all the important steps you need to make to make a succesfull proxy website. It has examples of proxy scripts, it teaches you how to promote your proxy and also how to start the proxy with no costs.

The eBook is free so please do not sell it, redistribute it or modify it. Please do not claime it as your own. I know my english is not the best but I am sure you will understand what I am trying to say with no problem.

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As you can clearly see the content is the same as a post or two from this blog. I have also added the RSS feed from this blog in hope of users reading my blog after reading those lenses. Also every text content has a link back to this blog. Makeing the page was easy with the tools they gave so anyone an start there very own page now.

I will monitor these pages for a week (at least) and give you any info over them. Also, I wanted to see other users oppinion on this topic so I made a quick pool. If you have experience with Squidoo please take this very quick survey. It will help all of us in understanding Squidoo more. I will run this pool for about a week and post the results after that.

So, please take a look at the lenses I have built, post here any tips that you have and please, take the survey from here: Squidoo Pool