For the first time I paid a big sum for a custom made, furniture. That is something new to me. As a freelancer and accepting those large sum for a website, I still manage to keep minimal emotion trigger, especially the one called Mad. If I were to write some copy about diet pill reviews, I will do it all my best and keep asking for correction in the progress; if I am to build a website, I will ask for the best and come out with something as soon as possible just to show progress.

Yes, progress can be a killer. That is what I have to blog about today, to maintain a good balance of myself.

Well, after looking into the matter. What I see wrong is – Communication. There are lots of holes in all the communication when the project was first initialed.

First, the dealer. He who did not give me second contact and did not let me know first hand that he will be having vacation after this week, which the project should be finish next week. Well, God showed me the way before he leave the airport and he gave me the second contact – The carpenter.

Second, the carpenter. I asked to know see the progress in the factory, but they refuse and told me that they are build according to the design the dealer gave them. I keep wanting to see the progress as the material is quite sensitive thing. Ended up it was wrong but I did make the correction after that, however, the carpenter, insist that there is no material like I mentioned.

Thirdly, the partner of the dealer. I never met him before, and I did have a phone conversation with him before. Well, on the phone conversation, when they did the wrong material, he insist me to accept the item, which I declined. Today he shows up, and give me the evil look thinking I’m some sort of jerk. After a short conversation with the carpenter (apparently he insist on using the wrong material), he raised his voice thinking I’m fooling them for keep changing the material.

See, overall, the communication and the insist of a customer right did not reach and ended up an unhappy day. Tomorrow starts another day, and this time, the dealer is back. Things will be clearer.

Recently I caught up with only 5 hours sleep and the rest is just work and more work. Putting my knowledge into another field is too time consuming. Even top rated wrinkle creams couldn’t help me right now.

However, the good this is, I still manage to catch one or two new thing in my main field – Web. Well, not exactly.

So what is this LEMP? Linux, EngineX, Mysql, PHP. Most server are still using LAMP, the Apache instead of EngineX.

Engine X (a.k.a nginx) is said to be running faster than Apache and can handle bigger queries and databases than Apache and its a light-weight engine.

Anyway, I have trouble looking for an install-able version of LEMP on my localhost Anyone has any idea?

I always keen on making sure my laptop and desktop runs well, and run fast, like a new machine. Be it a computer or laptop, from time to time, you need to check them, and make sure they runs alright and smoothly. Unlike nuphedragen reviews, computer doesn’t need much technical knowledge or some diploma.

Delete System Restore

First, delete the System Restore. It may sound stupid for some, but really it taking too much space for nothing. If your computer running well yesterday, by all mean, delete the rest of the backup. Since Windows XP, Windows has System Restore to automatically backup your system everytime you install an application, deleting them will leave only yesterday’s backup. So it is fine, if your computer running well yesterday.

Cleaning the cache and all

Clean thoroughly! This is the harder part, and normally user depending on third party software. I personally recommend CCleaner. I’ve been using it for years and it still keep updating and running well even in Windows 7 Oh, it’s a freeware, don’t worry. This little thing clean almost every possible aspect in Windows, even broken or empty registries!

Arrange the files

Alright, this is one of the most headache process, for some. Since Windows 98, I’ve been doing defragmentation from time to time, normally 6 months once. But it took too much time if you ever do that. I normally use Auslogic BootSpeed, a shareware cost USD49.95. It worth the money than any other I’ve tried. However, there is this free version of disk defrag for download, which works pretty well too.

One day, I may need a inogen oxygen concentrator to provide me the enough air to breath. It’s been a really really hectic week in my life, far more hectic than any situation I’ve ever encountered.

Web design, WordPress development, xHTML/CSS coding

All I did is all these web related, but not so much related too. Web design, is on of the job I tried to get rid off and focus mainly in WordPress development. The differences between xHTML/CSS coding and WordPress development is that coding need the skills, but WordPress development need the time and experiment and of course, some programming language. However, in current situation, the low pay I have, I need to work on web design as well, and all the rest. Time is chasing me for weeks!

Machines and arrangement

My uncle was a mad man when it comes to business. Since I have a wife or relationship in Indonesia, he tend to ask me to arrange his machine to be import to Malaysia. That alone may require me a 5 times calling and 10 times SMS to Indonesia.

Construction

Recently just jumped into the field. Due to some Heavenly-dropped-chance, I secured a construction deal with some big corporate. However, due to my first time and inexperiences in the field, I’m juggling to the site from time to time to make sure everything is running alright.

Alright, I still need to get back to work… For the 3 main things I’ve been doing all the time

Now you have your idea ready, your partners agreed to work together and found a developer for your product. You all agreed on your goal, great!

Now what?

This question is crucial for the starter. I have been a web developer for 2 group of people who know their goal, have everything ready, but lack of system.

As a friend, and my previous entry tells me, I am better get myself off the people who I don’t know well, so I am just a developer for them, for free, as a friend (reminded me another topic next entry )

The problem is the system, or in bigger group, management. While you have everything ready, it is time to plan a timeline, a strategy and a discussion group. They have a bad system, I have to be here and there with different people telling different timeline. Discussion group was not attend by everybody, can’t have a strategy that agreed together.

After a few times of discussion with them, I finally made the move to, move out of the project. As I see it, it is a waste of time even working for free. If a project can be success, I would be glad to become a part of it even if I work for free; but if a project is failing, why waste the time?