A Day in Paradise

A friend of mine is looking for someone to help him with a personal project of his

I’m finding it a frustration that whilst we refer to Australians and News Zealanders as ‘westerners’ our printed maps always show both countries in the far south-east.

I’ve tried using Photoshop to move both countries to the west of the map however this is very much a short-term and localized fix.

I’d ideally like to find somebody able to physically move both countries a few thousand miles towards Hawaii.

I appreciate that this would not be a suitable project for an individual but would require a team effort so please be aware of this when bidding.

I also would prefer that you read the project specs entirely before bidding as I get a little peeved when people just bid without really understanding the nature of the work.

A sample of similar completed projects will be greatly appreciated and will increase the chances of your bid being accepted.

As Scriptlance is somewhat limited in it’s project categories I’ve listed it under graphic design work, rather than in a unique “geographical relocation of continental mass” category.

I look forward to your bidding.

Best wishes,

Martin

He already has 2 people bidding at $100 for the job… excellent opportunity for anyone looking to change the world (literally instead of figuratively)

We’ve been busting our balls on the infrastructure of our new Hedge Fund Website creation project over the last couple weeks and since we did the official launch yesterday I figured it deserved a little link love

The heart of the hedge product a niche tool for hedge fund managers to manage their investor portfolios and relations. The underlying system is currently a custom PHP/MySQL system, however we are working with WebStyle Systems to create platform using eZpublish to which we can move some of our accounts and base future products on. We will also be launching another niche product based on this platform. This is still pre-alpha development.

One interesting tool that we are using for our support is SupportSuite by Kayako. This is a great support/ticket platform, what I have been most impressed with has been the moderate use of AJAX in both the backend and frontend support interfaces. Internally we use Mantis to manage our projects.

The project is still in it’s early stages. We are working on the “flagship” hedge fund websites website and moving that away from it’s launch state. Of course we have a blog where team members will be blogging (just me so far).

Thanks for the space, I now return you to your regular programming… Oh yes, we’re looking for another designer (isn’t everyone), check out the blog if you’re interested.

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I’ve stopped using Backpackit completely. It was cool at first but then when we get past a certain number of articles, the system breaks down.

Plus google has spell checking, tagging, and a ton of other goodness. The only thing that I have to get used to is the “organisation-by-tagging” system that google uses. I have a TON of stuff going by me, so it might make it slightly more difficult to use than just a simple “folder” metaphor.

What more can I say, why pay for something when you can get something better for google for free.