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Microsoft to release VB6 as Open Source ;)

iLC — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:53:39 +0000

After many years of complaints from the VB6 developers around the world, Microsoft has finally agreed to re release VB6, not as a full product, but as a full featured, not crippled free Open Source product with source code on CodePlex.

Developers around the world should rejoice at the prospect of writing again good old VB6 apps that use ADO to connect to Access databases.

Feeling the possible wrath of the C# community that will feel abandoned by this bold move, Microsoft will also create a VB6 like C language called C?(pronounced C Flat). Using C?, C# developers will be able to use VB6 like features like Variants, ActiveX controls, arrays that start with 1 or 0 (finally some choice!).

Asked to comment, ScottGu said: “April’s Fools!”

Courtesy: http://weblogs.asp.net/guybarrette/

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Freelancer.com is a Scam?

iLC — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:28:53 +0000

I was keeping quite for some time. But one comment from a fellow freelancer, on one of my posts, brings me back to say something. Freelancer.com is one of the prominent job boards for on-line freelancers. According to their own perception Freelancer.com claims to be the world’s #1 micro-outsourcing marketplace. However, my reader has posted a long message that only conveys a gloomy picture of the freelancer.com that is very shocking. In short, the post claims that the freelancer.com is nothing but a huge scam. This definitely surprises me.

The comment concludes with this: “I strongly believe that the staff of this company (freelancer.com) must be put behind the bars for ripping off the users for their hard earned money. I am sure that the promoters and staff of the company including the CEO Matt Barrie might try to stop my voice, they might also harass me further and may even try to kill me, But I am not scared of any sort of consequences and not even death, what i want is that truth must come in front of everyone.”

This kind of allegation, if it is true, can be very discouraging for freelancers. I would request the concerned parties to clarify the issue further.

About Freelancer.com

Freelancer.com is a global marketplace for online and freelance jobs where businesses connect with independent service providers and freelancers to outsource their work. Freelancer.com connects over 1.4 million employers and freelancers globally from over 234 countries & regions. Through our website, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales and marketing, and accounting & legal services. Freelancer is the leader in the micro-outsourcing market, with the average job size being under US$200. This is extremely cost effective for small businesses, which often need a wide variety of jobs to be done, but cannot justify the expense of hiring full time.

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I am back from Holiday

iLC — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:52:10 +0000

Dear partners, I missed you for quite a while. As I was on a holiday. Those who are aware might question me why again within a couple of months? Well, it was sort of a medical tour. Now I am back again and happy to be able to communicate with you. So how is life here for the freelancers?

Have a nice day!

Eastern bay of the Bay of Bengal in southern India

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Want to Memorialize Where In the World You Have Visited? Try this Map

iLC — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:25:54 +0000

My friend (Paul D Pruitt socrtwo@s2services.com) ‘s world map program http://tinyurl.com/37yct2c is now in Beta. Everything works but he is looking for problems or suggestions. Personally I think this is going to be a big hit. The Map is working fine. It would be possible to make it even more useful by adding more interesting features to it.

Here are the current features:

Click on countries or their checkboxes lower down, to color them and indicate you have visited them (or for any other reason you want to color countries).
You can save the image of your map with a click of a button.
You can click on a button and get a tinyurl.com version which you can come back to at a later time and add countries to your map.
You can blow up the map to a PDF poster of any arbitrary size and still print it out on ordinary size paper which you tape together after trimming off the the overlap on the edges of each sheet.

Still to do:

Add maps of the US, Canada, China, Europe, Africa, South America, the islands of the world and Asia where users can indicate which provinces within each they have visited.

You must pay a visit and give it a try every time you visit a new place on earth. Where in the world you have been? Start coloring the places now. Thumbs up to Paul for this wonderful idea.

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Messi’s Leg could not find it because it was on Heinze’s Head

iLC — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:58:08 +0000

Ball that could find the Nigeria’s goalpost was never with Lionel Messi’s leg. Although in the 2010 FIFA World cup “Argentina vs Nigeria” match spectator’s eyes were all focused on to his legs, the unexpected but spectacular goal came from Gabriel Heinze’s head. That goal was something very big to celebrate! Here is Heinze in action at that very moment.

Heinze's spectacular head scores the only goal in Argentina vs Nigeria match

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Ian Ippolito – The Man behind 285,700 Programmers

iLC — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:29:50 +0000

RentACoder (aka vWorker) and its founder Ian Ippolito has been featured in Entrepeneur magazine’s June 2010 issue: “100 of the smartest, most innovative, hands-down brilliant companies on our radar”. Congratulations Ian Ippolito!

Ian Ioppolito The founder of RentACoder

According to the Entrepeneur One of the first to latch onto the opportunity of crowd-sourcing was programmer Ian Ippolito, who launched Rent A Coder back in 2002. His Tampa, Florida, site connects businesses with a global freelance market of programmers, and today, an astonishing 136,837 buyers and 285,700 coders from all over the world make up the Rent A Coder marketplace. Ippolito expects a revenue of $3 million and will rename the site vWorker.com–for virtual worker.

Click here for more details.

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FIFA World Cup 2010 Brazil Squad

iLC — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:29:05 +0000

World cup football is like a festival in my country. Supporters are mainly divided between Brazil and Argentina. Building roof tops of cities and villages, shops, roads and even private cars have been decorated with flags of these two countries. At this point in time millions of cricket fans will discover that they are talking footballs instead. Kaka, Robinho, Faviano, Messi, Tevez have already been occupied the giant bill boards of the capital Dhaka.

FIFA World Cup 2010 Brazil Squad

Therefore, it is definitely appropriate to publish another sequel of FIFA World Cup 2010 for the Brazil Squad. And here I go. I could combine the Argentina and Barzil databases but considering the file size I am rather uploading separately.

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FIFA World Cup 2010 Argentina Squad

iLC — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:55:00 +0000

I am an Argentina-fan and very much looking forward to another victory of Argentina in FIFA World Cup 2010 with Diego Maradona as a coach. My blog has an empty page waiting for some uploads of samples, demo, free utilities and programs developed by me. As myself, my country and the whole world is suffering from World Cup fever I though of doing something about it.

So I have developed this quick database application called FIFA World Cup 2010 Argentina Squad. The database can easily be extended for all 32 teams and 768 players and coaches but this version is only limited to Argentina records.

FIFA World Cup 2010 Argentina Squad is a complete MS Access 2003 based freeware database application. The application allows user to query and display players of the Argentina World Cup 2010 Team. Records contain one or more photographs of the players and the coach.

This application demonstrate how to display images form file system on an MS Access form. This also shows technique of displaying multiple images and their captions associated with a single record. The image captions are also stored in the file system with a naming convention similar to the referenced image. The application also has a friendly user interface with delicate choice of colors.

"FIFA World Cup 2010 Argentina Squad" is a complete MS Access 2003 based freeware database application.

Application Description

FIFA World Cup 2010 Argentina Squad
Version 0.95
Copyright © iLoveCoding, June 2010
This software is a freeware

Requirements

MS Access 2003 Runtime
Windows XP

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Back from Holiday

iLC — Sat, 01 May 2010 17:45:08 +0000

After a wonderful holiday spanning 4 days and 3 nights somewhere in a beach resort between south china sea and pacific ocean I am back to work again. Thanks to my freelance partners who were waiting for my coming back and resuming of projects that I were working on.

Here I am publishing two of my holiday photos. Yes I am not visible there except my dark shape on the first one. But well this is the first ever published photo of myself on the net.

Sitting at the hotel lobby

The second one is purely composed of nature and since I am the photographer of this one I am obviously absent there.

South china sea meets my holiday resort

I have had so much of enjoyment there. Oh my! Often I am closing my eyes and feeling as if I am still there enjoying the sunset and evening stars lying on the beach and lost with the enigmatic sound of the wave and the breeze.

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Freelancers Dispute RentACoder’s Name Change to vWorker.com

iLC — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 09:43:37 +0000

RentACoder logo

In several weeks time RentACoder, one of the famous freelance job board, is going to change its name. The changed name will be vWorker.com which stands for “virtual worker”. Along with its brand new name, RentACoder will also have a new logo, tagline and site design! RentACoder facebook page has details for the meaning of the logo and a preview of the new site design!

vWorker logo

Why the change? In a message RentACoder CEO Ippolito expalins, that it is changing to reflect the diversity of the many talented workers they have on the site. “Back when I founded the company in 2001 we concentrated just on technology and programming, and the name Rent a Coder fit us. But today in 2010, the site is not just coders, but also graphic artists, writers, translators, marketers, personal assistants and numerous other types of workers. Our new name will reflect that and reminds employers that they can find all kinds of talent here” said Ippolito.

Back in 2001 RentACoder was just a small startup of two employees, working from an extra room in Ippolito’s house. Today in 2010, RentACoder has upsized offices twice, been in hundreds of business journals and newspaper, and have become three time INC 5000 winners (fastest growing private company in the U.S.).

The old name “RentACoder” was often criticised by the freelancer community being limiting and underestimating the designing and architecting efforts often required to serve the nature of jobs frequently posted on the RentACoder. The term “Rent” also lacked respect that the freelance community deserves. In short the name “RentACoder” failed to appropriately portray the nature of the service offered on the job board. Despite it’s old inappropriate name and paradigm the job board remains as one the top few freelance job boards in the world serving several hundred thousands of freelance developers and service buyers.

RentACoder Background

Although the new name “vWorker” is much more generalized than the “coder”, the term “worker” remains as demeaning and disgraceful as before. One of the commenter to Ippolito’s message put it like “this name (vWorker) does not reflect innovation, research and technology! Smells more like prototype jobs handled by unskilled persons”. Definitely creative freelancers do not want to be portrayed as workers. Another commenter expresses his dissatisfaction: “The new design looks great but new name is not too attractive. Its depicts a normal worker not an expert or technology specialist or valuable person that has much higher expertise than an ordinary worker. The word “worker” is very general and can be used for a person who is doing even a very common task.” Some are even shouting and saying “THIS NAME IS NOT THE BEST WE CODERS DESERVE.”

However, Ippolito explains “I understand you are reading “worker” as a “manual laborer” and that is not something you would want to be associated with. As it turns out, the term “virtual worker” is actually not a manual laborer and it’s not a term that we invented either. It’s a fairly common business term that already exists and means a person who does work remotely over the internet. These are *always* white-collar jobs (which are office professionals). They are never manual laborers because you cannot do remote work in manual professions (where people work with their hands rather than their brains).”

But freelancers are not happy with that explanation. “We are Professional. and Owner of Company. and not the worker at ALL. this feels down. This will not attract any new comer to work like work. rather he will deliver his professionals skill to some other site. there has to be difference between professional (highly qualified) and worker(under qualified)”, another disgruntled freelancers disputed Ippolito.

Whether there is logic or not the fact remains that coining of the name “vWorker” will remain as debatable as “rentacoder” and freelancer community will definitely found to be divided on this point.

We thank RentACoder for they acknowledged that a paradigm shift was necessary. We also hope that the site will not just be re-branded with a new name and a logo but also will be overhauled with better look and feel and will offer greater usability experience. All those debate aside, bottom line remains the quality and value of services the RentACoder aka vWorker (or whatever) offers to its community of buyer and sellers.

Find more on the subject on vWorker blog