#30. AppHarbor is the best hosting for beginning freelance .Net developers

AppHarbor is a cloud computing service where we can create web applications in .Net, those applications can be continuous integrated with our github or bitbucket repository. The service downloads our newest revision in the hooked repository and executes all tests in the solution before publishing the new revision.

AppHarbor is free of charge with some limitations, but with enough possibilities for starting freelancers, like me.

So, if you are starting your freelance career as a .Net developer you should check it out. I am just promoting as a satisfied user, nothing more.

For example the homepage of Wishlist Manager is hosted in AppHarbor.

#29. Overcoming a work slump

Without posting for a few weeks and with the new year I am starting to get motivated to continue posting, blogging and developing some software.

I want to prepare a new app for my website putinyourbasket.com, and soon I will be posting about it.

Meanwhile you can check what I consider are the best post that I made in the last few weeks:

• A crowdfunding non-profit fund-raiser for charity through the orders made at amazon
• A comparison between the new Garmin Edge 510 and the last version
• Some tips to shop at amazon from Spain (in spanish)
• A retrospective about Rockstar games in this generation of consoles
• Another comparison this time for the Samsung SSDs current product line 840 vs 830

#17. Data analysis in detail

If excel can’t satisfy your needs in data analysis you can have an online MySQL database ready in 2 minutes, create a DB in www.freesql.org and download the portable version of HeidiSQL. Two thumbs up!
Edit: After using freesql DB for a while found the limitation of 1600 operations....well now just one thumb up ;)

#16. Merge CSV to import to Excel

I’m doing some data analysis for a first client (a friend ), he has some csv files and wants to remove duplicates. Each file is a different category for the data, so he wants a new column to know where it came from. First I tried this simple solution but needed the column and with my lack of scripting knowledge decided to go straight for a little program in .net.

I posted the complete project on Bitbucket or you can view the important part on this gist:

#15. new year resolutions

One of my new year’s resolutions was to increase my freelance profile. Last week I saw code52 webpage and got inspired, soon I’ll start something and I’ll try to rise my online activity, to get the attention of some possible clients.
Thanks also to Scott Hanselman who also today posted an example of simple freelancing. Thanks for the inspiration!