2023 was a tough year, and my turnover fell considerably (down 25% on 2022, though that was a record year). On the plus side, I'm now spreading my income over…
Every so often, a hosting company will contact me asking if I want to take part in their affiliate scheme. It's always sold as a win-win situation - they get…
I've recently launched a new service, PHP Developer Mentoring, for organisations with junior and mid level developers who would like to build up their skills with mentoring from a senior…
2022 was another good year business-wise. My turnover continued to increase, I worked with a number of new clients, and I'm was fully booked 4-8 weeks in advance for most…
Over the past few years, I've delivered Q&A sessions on what it is like to be a freelancer, at conferences and to groups of students at universities. These have always…
2021 has been another year of general chaos, but fortunately my business hasn't been too badly affected. I've also spent some time improving my business, which I think will stand…
Despite the general chaos, I've been luckier than most in that my business hasn't been badly affected in 2020. I've had chance to learn some new skills, improve my admin,…
This year I've been paying close attention to Sympl, a project which makes it easier to manage website and email hosting by providing sensible default configurations and automating some of…
osTicket is a self-hosted and open source ticketing system written in PHP. I wanted to give it a try as one option for a client's support needs, but with a…
Invoice Ninja is a self-hosted and open source invoicing solution written using a PHP framework called Laravel. I wanted to give it a try as a replacement for my existing…