Be careful what you wish for!

Juan Ignacio Carrozzo — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:04:40 +0000

In my first post i created a list of lets call them "goals" that i want to do to become an independent developer. In the post, i made a list of things that i should do to start my path to become an actual freelancer (i say my path because it does not apply to everyone). Almost a month has pass since then.

Out of the blue the company im working for (argentinian company) offered me 2 new projects; a russian company offered me an intership to become a native iOS developer; my capoeira teacher offered me to start giving kids classes again (i was doing it in Argentina); we started the renovation of the appartment AND! my parents decided to come visit for the first time and for 3 weeks!

No, just kidding. I'm very exited about all this. I'm quite hyperactive dude and this come like a ring to my finger. Well.. maybe i'll preffer a little more space in between all of this tasks. But when the universe
gives you lemons.. you know! buy Cachaça and prepare some tasty Caipirnhas!

So, time to reorganize my goals:

C.V. : DONE! but i still need to look for some cool stylish design one online to steal. You know what they say: "Good artists copy, great artists steal"
Github: Working on it !. I upload some code and ideas, but still need to work on it.
Portfolio: Its actually connected to my repo and my personal website so: Working ...
Website: idem.
JS Frameworks: Success! i managed to introduce some Vue.js code in our company software. A teeny-tiny piece of code, but its only the beginning!
Programming languages: here i detoured. Swift, its my new goal. And this includes using a Mac (i'm a windows user; third world problems 🤷‍♂️) and using xCode as a development interface (until now i only use it for the building process)
Writing a blog: well here i go again. I have had plenty of ideas on what to write about but they always occur while on the street and then .. puf .. i forget. But i will try to wright more often (at least every 2 weeks)
Ok. Enough! let start working!!
See you all and bora treinar galera!

P.S.: thanks for the comments on my last post. To realize that people actually read you it's an amazing feeling.
P.S.2: sorry for my english writting, i know its not the best but i'm working on it too!

The long road to become a real freelancer

Juan Ignacio Carrozzo — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 11:02:46 +0000

I just realize that next next March will be 30 years since i wrote my first "program". Yeah, it was 1989 and i was learning Logo in a Talent MSX Computer in an institute that my mom used to work after hours. After 1 year i was so bored that i decided to read the manual that came with that computer and this took me to learn BASIC and after a while i found C and so my path started.
Right now i'm living in Moscow with my girlfriend but i'm still employee in Argentina and by now Argentina's economical situation it's quite bad and so is my salary. This was 2nd reason of me moving to Moscow. Obviusly the first and main reason is L-O-V-E... (yeah, all this to say i have a russian girl :))

Now, after 14 years of working on the same company (yeah.. 14...) and at least 12 of "not a single update" to my public programmer profile, i decided that the time has come.
I hope this will take me in the right direction.

So, i started by making a list of lists:

Things i need to update,
Things i need to create,
Things i need to learn

Things i need to update

C.V.
I realize that the last time i check my CV i was learning Blackberry programming with a guy name Brian Taffel (i recently found him in Medium).blackberry man! you can imagine.
So, i need to create a new one from scratch with updated profile and skills.

Github
I created it looooong time ago but because my coding belong to the company i never upload anything. Yes, i know i could have done some side work or at least upload my training code or some of the independent web developments i did during this years but, i didn't and now i regret it.

Things to create

Portfolio
Because i didn't updaload anything during this time, now i need to fill my portfolio with samples of my code. I decide to start with things i'm using right now so i will create: A simple Ionic PWA (Gong-Time) and a Ionic app using Firestore (Market-List) and upload a project that i created to learn Firestore (Budget-Control). I'm also working in a midsize project call "Bora Treinar" with a friend so i will upload it there too.

Website
I've been paying for my name domain since gosh knows when, so i will (finally) create my personal website. I'm thinking on some simple static HTML with some cool CSS.

Things to learn

JS Frameworks
I usually try to introduce some new frameworks to our company projects but since the company grow so much (when i started we were 5 geeks) it become quite difficult even though we use classic ones (JQuery, underscore, bootstrap, etc)
So, i want to start with some Vue.js.

Programming Languages
Python it is. Why? i don't know. Well let me tell you, every programmer i meet here, is somehow doing something with Python, majority of post i read have something about Python, 1 of every 3 job requeriments i check, ask for Python. So, as i said, Python it is.

Writing a Blog
Last but not least i will start blogging (i just did ;)) I have always been a fan of this art but never wrote a single line. Maybe because i'm living abroad or maybe because of my age, but i think this is the moment to start my own.

Ok, so this is my roadmap. I will try to move as fast as i can and try.

Let me know what you think about this ideas.

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Be careful what you wish for!

The long road to become a real freelancer

Things i need to update

Things to create

Things to learn