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Last night, as I stated in my previous post, I was working on-site with Chris at a client’s office installing an Internet gateway type of device. Chris has blogged about the installation and configuration of the server over at TechSays, so check there for some technical specifics on the system we installed and its purpose.
My personal business, Fruitful Solutions (a site redesign is in the works and will be completed soon), provides custom programming, web design and development, and web and e-mail hosting. As of (officially) January 1st, 2007, Fruitful Solutions has introduced a hosted application for tracking, monitoring, and routing visitor traffic and/or phone calls as well as keeping up with employee’s in or out of office status. This hosted applications is called En Route.
As my personal life has been a little hectic lately between my day job and my home life, I have been looking for other opportunities to include some other people in my side projects who have expressed a strong interest in assisting me in the past. Chris and Josh have both expressed an interest in assisting me with my moonlighting projects, and with where I am in life right now, I can use all the help I can get! So far, I have only been able to include Chris on an actual paying project, but Josh has helped me out tremendously with some voice over work for a marketing campaign I did last year for En Route.
While I don’t want to spill the beans just yet on what my future plans are for generating more business on the side, I do want to say that I thoroughly enjoyed working late last night with Chris on a project that wasn’t something I normally would take on by myself. I enjoyed the long hours (7pm - 12AM), I enjoyed the issues that arose during the installation and working together with someone you trust to get them corrected. I enjoyed working with someone I feel comfortable in giving a scope of work, no matter how minimal or unspecific it was (sorry, Chris), and trusting that they will deliver for me and be there until the project is completed. I know i can expect this from both Josh and Chris.
With that being said, I look forward to working with Chris and Josh in the future if any projects come up that I can, or need to, use them. I think by adding some other friends/contractors, equally as qualified if not more so than me, to the mix, Fruitful Solutions will continue to provide great and expanded services to its current client base and future clients.
Until next time…
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February 23rd, 2007 at 1:59 AM
I’ve said this before numerous times, I’ve never had a better boss or co-worker.
And just for the record, it wasn’t my fault we stayed until midnight, that’s just how long it took to get the client PCs reconfigured and mail transfered over to the new software.
Although it did take me every bit of that time to finish the server. I’m extremely glad we were able to do this after hours and not during the day. After spending the 4 days I had possession of the server working (at my day job) until 4am and 2am, school until 10pm the next night, and up until 2 or 3 (working on the server) the night before install, I didn’t exactly have a 100% complete server. I would say from what I understood the SoW to be that I was 90% done. Wrong. No webmail (still) and they didn’t want IMAP, they wanted POP3. Oops, I guess I should have asked instead of assuming. And it wasn’t until midway through that I got SpamAssassin to actually tag spam emails. My glory was shortlived, however, because as soon as I fixed something, Jeff was “reminding me” about something else that needed to be done … like forgetting to setup Fetchmail to pull all of their mail down. Oops, another potentially huge mistake on my part.
Oh, and after setting the server to respond to their email domain, any request to their own website took them straight to the server’s proxy reporting page. Not good in the least. Luckily “a friend of mine” had recently used Squirm, a rewriting tool for proxy requests. After spending a good deal of time on it I was able to rewrite all of their http://domain.com requests to http://www.domain.com. Whoever wrote that deserves a Guinness. Brilliant!!
Sorry for rambling so much … I sort of got carried away there.
If you’re interested in the adventures of the other night, stay tuned to my blog. Maybe one of these days I’ll have time (I planned on doing it tonight … stupid WordPress themes) to actually finish my posts.
-chris
FromFebruary 23rd, 2007 at 11:09 PM
I’m convinced now that there isn’t a whole lot that open-source software can’t do, either on Windows or Linux platforms. I also can’t help thinking that working on both platforms makes you a better techie. That’s one of the reasons I respect both you and Chris so much - you guys are fluid in multiple types of systems. That, and Chris pw3nes. (Did I get that right? Pw3nes? Warez? War-ez?)
All of that stuff aside, I would love to help all I can. I echo Chris’ statements: I have never had a better coworker or boss. Or lover. Okay, just kidding about that part…
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