http://www.pither.com/articles/2007/01/28/freelance en-us 40 by Simon Pither, freelance developer and systems administrator <p>I am now officially trying the freelance approach to employment (complete with my first project, thanks to <a href="http://buttersideup.com/">Tim Small</a>)</p> <p>I have my own limited company, lots of highly marketable skills (Linux (high availability and clustering), Java, Perl, etc) and lots of real life experience making a <a href="http://www.digitalbrain.com">large web application</a> work better, faster and stay alive longer.</p> <p>Things I am particularly interested in (and have strong experience of) working on at the moment are:-</p> <ul> <li>large web application deployments</li> <li>Java debugging, profiling and optimization</li> <li>Server automation, eg <a href="http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/">Puppet</a></li> <li><a href="http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/">Shibboleth</a> consultancy and support</li> </ul> <p>I am happy to provide advice, consultancy and planning services as well as to get involved in parts of or complete larger projects. Tim and I also have a strong working relationship and we are able to offer joint services where extra man power or speed of delivery are required.</p> <p>Please <a href="mailto:simon@pither.com">let me know</a> if you're interested or would like further information.</p> Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:00:00 +0000 urn:uuid:86ce8752-654a-42d1-a783-d97c6d4bb68b Simon http://www.pither.com/articles/2007/01/28/freelance work