Don´t stop your imagination! This week, we talked to Dario De Nicola, an Italian web developer working as freelancer. Find his answers to our ten questions right here.
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1) Firstly, can you tell us bit about yourself!
My name is Dario De Nicola, i am a web developer from South of
Italy. I have 10 years experience as php, asp, mysql, sql,
javascript, jquery, html, css developer. I’m a freelancer for 7
years in which I’ve lived in different regions of Italy. Actually I
live in the country near Perugia in the middle of Italy. I am
technical manager of a new Italian music social network www.ingiro.net, next year I will be starting the 2.0 version with new
socialite oriented features.
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2) If you would search for your profile on Google, which are the
three keywords you would type in the search bar?
php jquery developer
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3) What was your inspiration and when did you actually decide
to become a freelancer?
I became freelance to feel free to manage my time in the several
passions I have, like music, reading, programming. But not only. I
think being a freelancer makes you to improve faster your
experience and knowledge, because the competition encourage
you to stay updated with new technologies on the web.
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4) What kind of services have your clients asked you to
provide?
I worked for my clients on creating simple and complex
customized CMS, E-Commerce websites, instant win web
system.
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5) Do you use other freelancers or companies to provide skills
that you don’t possess?
Of course, union is more strength than one! I have some
collaborations with other freelancer I’ve met during last years.
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6) Now tell us, how do you find new clients that are interested
in your services?
Fortunately, from last year I’m not searching in new clients,
because I had project assigned from a good number of clients.
However I have profile on some social and business networks
like freelancermap, LinkedIn.
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7) What about freelancermap.com? Can you tell us a little bit
about your experience with our IT-network?
I haven’t had yet the opportunity to work on some of the
projects published on your network, but I’ve read a lot of
interesting job and professional experience , i think
freelancermap is a very powerful service for freelancer world. I
can’t say anymore, I have only to have more experience on your
network.
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8) How do you set yourself apart from your competitors? What
makes you special?
I’m sure my best quality is clean code, high precisions in every
details and a very good problem solving attitude.
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9) What are the top three books, blogs or magazines you read
to stay up to date in the IT-market?
www.html.it, www.stackoverflow.com, www.phpclasses.org
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10) Freestyle! Is there anything you would like to tell our
readers?
Don’t stop your imagination!