1. Freelancing and Java
Victor Kalinin

2. Who is Freelancer
● Not employed by company
● Looks for projects by himself

3. Freelancing Online
● Using specialized services

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5. About Myself
● Doing Freelancing for 2 years
● Specializing in Java

6. Freedom

7. Free schedule

8. Working place
can be sea side,
coffee,
even due travelling

9. Avoid any kind of
TRAFFIC
(even in supermarkets)
Living place
(do not need go to work)

10. Choose environment
(language, tools,...)

11. You choose
projects,
not vice versa

12. Self improvement

13. Time planning
(personal, project)

14. Marketing Skills

15. English language skills

16. Professional skills

17. Client/Project
search

18. ● Search by keyword, section
(web, desktop...)
● Java != JavaScript

20. ● PHP projects, Scala, JavaEE
● Projects, where programming
languages not specified

21. How to make
client chose me

22. ● References
● Tests

23. ● Personalized proposals
● Remember about
○ client programming knowledge
level
○ detailed project reading
○ when is better to post proposal
● Write Demo application

24. Money

25. ● How to be sure client will pay you,
escrow
● Payment methods (wire transfer,
paypal)
● System fee ~8%

26. Most popular
project themes

27. ● CMS
● Web spider
● Web shops
● Android + iPhone

28. Pros
+ self improvement
+ schedule and place flexibility
+ additional earnings (no other personal,
foreign countries clients)
+ save some time employees spent in traffic

29. Cons
- not permanent earnings
- spent additional time to management
- interruptions from client
- additional expenses (software, hardware,
services)
- lack of communication with colleagues
(coworking can solve this problem)
- No QA (actually you can create a team)

30. Why Java?

31. ● It’s statically typed (helps IDE automation)
● It’s multi-platform (compare to Python)
● Lots of frameworks, tools
● I know it (actually bad reason)

32. Java
problems

33. ● Not embedded in OS - clients should
install it or I should add it to project (80
Mb). Problems with demo.
● Not supported by iStore
● Android - lot of clients want also iPhone
● Lack of popular CMS. PHP area.

34. Tools

35. ● Maven
● IntelliJ IDEA
● No bug trackers (clients prefer emails)

36. Most Interesting Projects

37. GPS objects photo marker

38. Scanned notebook processing
Java Advanced Image API (JAI)
Hough transform

39. Thank You!

40. Questions

41. Freelancing services
http://www.elance.com/
http://www.freelancer.com/
http://www.getacoder.com/
http://www.guru.com/
https://www.odesk.com/
My contact info:
e-mail: mercurievv@gmail.com
Skype: grobokopytoff
or mercurievv