On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Robin Gareus <robin@gareus.org> wrote:

On 04/01/2011 11:44 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
> Fans (or non-fans) of 80's heavy metal might enjoy this. A friend sent me this raw material in a random email, and I spent exactly 15 minutes coding it up in (gasp!) PHP:
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> http://restivo.org/dio/
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> Also, after about 4 years of trying to make it in music and failing,
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> I've left the band, put my own music aside, and officially given up. Sorry, I've reached the end of my poverty rope. If I post any more music, it'll be whatever I can knock out in an hour so of break time.
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> I'm now focussing the bulk of my time on, you know, stuff, that, like, pays, uh, actual money. So far that's been writing software: a little bit of web stuff, and I'm just finishing up an Android project bringing up an appliance and interfacing it to a microcontroller via serial port. The gadget/embedded stuff fits in well with what I was doing with linux audio, and it seems to pay well. I've done enough web stuff to be able to slide right back into that too.
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> I like projects and contract work, not really looking for any kind of 9-to-5 committment-- I still think like a musician and work best on my own in the middle of the night--, so if anyone knows of random contract work, let me know off-list. If it pays (within reason), then I'll do it.

I hear The Canterbury Project is looking for developers ASAP.
http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110401.en-gb.html