Have you ever fallen into the trap of freelancing websites? I say trap because a lot of us start out using them in order to gain experience and clients. The problem is that you can never take your experience (or proof of) or clients off of most of these websites.
With web development (and other areas I assume), time seems to never be enough. There's always more work to do, more emails to reply to, more meetings to attend, and if you're in a relationship, more time you should be spending your significant other and possibly kid/s/. 24 hours in
When talking about all of the reciprocal relationships in the web development world, it is easy to get overwhelmed with what you think you owe other people. But sometimes, it has to be about you. Not that you have to be selfish but, you do need to protect and nurture
While they are a little short of super-actionable resolutions, I thought I would take the time to share some of our company's hopes for 2016. With the closing of our first year and the opening of our second year we hope for stability, growth, and the continued opportunity to do
We would like to take a moment to wish everyone a happy holiday season. Most of the Paiyak Development team is enjoying a well-deserved break. We might even be able to pull Nikola away from his computer for a full 24-hours with the promise of family cuddles and plenty of
At the moment, Bulgaria and Romania seem to be competing for the title of the Balkan Silicon Valley. Both countries have created an environment that is ideal for creative technological development and web development workers. At Paiyak Development, we are obviously hoping that Bulgaria takes the title and attracts the
Yesterday, Nikola sent me this update about WordCamp Europe 2016, and I was ecstatic. Last year I attended my first WordCamp with Nikola. Since we both work with WordPress it made sense for both of us to go. The difficult part was deciding what to do with our 17 month
The problem of what a company could and should offer its employees is wrapped up in complex political and social concepts that go all the way to the debate between capitalism and socialism. At Paiyak Development, we tend to run on the socialist side of things, and I will enjoy writing
The majority of explorations of developer responsibilities involve the relationship between the developer and the client. Perhaps this is because it is the most visible relationship and also the relationship where money is regularly being exchanged, so there needs to be a constant examination and clarification of responsibilities to make the
When we first examine the developer's responsibility to the user, it is easy to say that we should be turning down projects that we simply do not believe in. Selling products that the developer believes are a scam or harmful to the user's health or filling the internet with repetitive