Artisan Coder » freelancing http://www.artisancoder.com Software development as a craft Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:19:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Is the App Store the way? http://www.artisancoder.com/2009/07/is-the-app-store-the-way/ http://www.artisancoder.com/2009/07/is-the-app-store-the-way/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:36:15 +0000 Alex http://www.ventonegro.org/?p=109 Last year I chose some goals for my career:

  • Work with very clever people or alone, from home
  • Work with good development tools, i.e., Git, Mercurial, Emacs etc.
  • Work with good programming languages, i.e., Scheme (first choice), Haskell, Common Lisp or Lua

These goals are intended to guarantee my long term happiness and stress-free high productivity. I mean a rewarding professional life. So far I could not attain any of them. Here in Brazil the chance of getting a regular job with these traits is nil. I began then to look for freelancing work, but I could only find worthless Java/PHP/ASP/VB/etc. projects. Unfortunately, here, those are the “high-tech” jobs.

As seen in my previous post, it is possible to use Scheme to develop for the iPhone and for the iPod Touch. Developing for the App Store has the potential of fulfilling my goals. Of course it is an already crowded market, but so far it seems to be the only way out. So I paid Apple and registered as an iPhone developer. Let’s see what I can come up with.

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