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A few weeks ago, Fred Castaneda of StrugglingEntrepreneur took the time to interview me about life, business, the balance of the two, and how to make a go of it as a contractor/consultant/freelancer.

In this episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur, we return to the IT industry and showcase the skilled IT or technical professional who wants to become a consultant within the industry and become a successful entrepreneur.

However, how does someone who has great and valuable technical skills become a successful entrepreneur in the arena of IT Consultant or Technical Consultant?

Listen to Tom Myer, the author of the book From Geek to Peak, describe his experiences, obstacles, challenges, mistakes and success stories in getting to the end-game of successful entrepreneur.

 

Listen to the whole episode here.

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Been working on something new–a 3-part audio program, on how to negotiate the hellacious process of becoming an author. If you’re at all interested in becoming a published author, then you need to check it out….it’s three hours of Thom Singer (also a published author) and me riffing on a whole bunch of topics:

• Researching your book’s topic
• Creating a hard-hitting proposal
• Setting up good working habits for writing a great book
• Working with a publisher
• Promoting your book
• Even becoming your own publisher if that’s what you want to do
• When to get an agent and why you should
• Why proposals are accepted…and rejected
• Why it’s important to negotiate important points with your publisher (such as cover art)
• Why having a set schedule is so important to you and those around you
• Why promoting a book is so much harder than writing a book (but so worth it!)
• Why talent isn’t the most important thing for success in publishing….and what is.

Check it out!

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My new (brief!) intro to CodeIgniter is now available over at IBM DeveloperWorks. The article walks you through a very fast setup (less than one hour) of a one- or two-page web site (or landing page). It shows you how to set up a model, a controller, and various views, and how to store information from a form into a database.

Read it here

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(I’m on a roll here, folks. Sorry for all the notices. We had a number of last-minute changes in the code, and the chapter examples didn’t get updated….and when you look at it 300 times, you just start missing stuff.)

On page 102 the search() function contains this group of code:

if ($this->input->post('term')){
$search['results'] = $this->MProducts->search($this->input->post(’term’);
}else{
…


The use of $search['results'] is incorrect, as it should be $data['results'] instead, like this:

if ($this->input->post('term')){
$data['results'] = $this->MProducts->search($this->input->post(’term’);
}else{
…


The code is correct in the downloadable zip archive.

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On page 110, there is this code in the function updateCart:


if (count($fullproduct)){
if (isset($cart[$productid])){
$prevct = $cart[$productid]['count'];
$prevname = $cart[$productid]['name'];
$prevname = $cart[$productid]['price'];


The second $prevname should be $prevprice, like this:


if (count($fullproduct)){
if (isset($cart[$productid])){
$prevct = $cart[$productid]['count'];
$prevname = $cart[$productid]['name'];
$prevprice = $cart[$productid]['price'];

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