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Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers

You're reading from   Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers A detailed guide to self-employment for software and web developers - from identifying your target market, through to managing your time, finances, and client behavior

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783001408
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Leon Brown Leon Brown
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Going IT Alone: The Handbook for Freelance and Contract Software Developers
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
Preface
1. Introducing Freelancing 2. Positioning Yourself in the Market FREE CHAPTER 3. Defining Your Business Model 4. Creating a Brand 5. Networking, Marketing, and Sales 6. An Introduction to Client Types 7. Managing Clients 8. Negotiation 9. Software Development Resources, Patterns and Strategies 10. Software Development Methodology 11. Creating Quotes and Estimates 12. Project Management Appendix

Strategic efficiency with MVC


Regardless of which software development language and tools you use to create your software, the top priority should be to develop your code inline with a strategy and method that produces both short and long term efficiency. With the exception of prototyping, ,it should also be kept in mind that short term efficiency shouldn't come at an expense to long term efficiency; using such approach usually results in unnecessary problems occurring at the end of the project that become harmful to the project's success.

One solution to developing software with strategic efficiency is a code pattern called MVC, which is an abbreviation for "models, views and controllers". MVC is a variation of n-tier architecture design, where n is the number of tiers (layers) that the software is modeled through. In the case of pure MVC, the software is constructed through three tiers that combine to form the following agendas:

  • Separation of functionality, presentation and content.

    The ability...

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