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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Best rules as a contractor Post 302754159 by Neo on Thursday 10th of January 2013 07:11:41 AM

01-10-2013

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Most of my career, over 95%, was as a self-employed person.

The formula is quite simple:

Honest, integrity, professionalism and honor above all.
Strong, current, relevant technical skills - always learning
Flexible, adaptive, and considerate to others and ideas
Hourly wages should be high enough for you to pay your own benefits, etc.

I also have a lot of experience on the other side of the equation, hiring contractors. I can tell you, for a fact, it is nearly impossible to find honest technical contractors who don't lie and fake their resume and references. In some countries, it is almost like resume cheating is the subculture norm.

I've even tried hiring "by the job" to do simple tasks like program some small code in PHP or HTML; and it is nearly impossible to get someone who can do a 1 hour job in less than three days or even weeks, LOL.

I've read so many "super duper" resumes, experts in this and that; but when I ask to just demonstrate some simple coding skills, the candidate falls apart with excuse after excuse.

So, to be a great contractor and make money is easy; if you are honest, skillful and all the things mentioned above.

Too many people are looking for shortcuts, they will lie and cheat and fake their skills on their resume and they struggle all their career. The people who just do the work, learn the skills, become experts, real experts, not fake ones; find that contracting is very easy (and rewarding!) and the money will flow and you will have a good life.

It's easy... their are no shortcuts, only hard work, honesty and integrity.

Without honor, all is lost.

Neo

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numfmt_set_symbol

NUMFMT_SET_SYMBOL(3)							 1						      NUMFMT_SET_SYMBOL(3)

NumberFormatter::setSymbol - Set a symbol value

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS

       public bool NumberFormatter::setSymbol (int  $attr, string  $value)

DESCRIPTION

	Procedural style
       bool numfmt_set_symbol (NumberFormatter	$fmt, int  $attr, string  $value)

	Set  a	symbol associated with the formatter. The formatter uses symbols to represent the special locale-dependent characters in a number,
       for example the percent sign. This API is not supported for rule-based formatters.

PARAMETERS

	      o $fmt
		-NumberFormatter object.

	      o $attr
		- Symbol specifier, one of the	format symbol constants.

	      o $value
		- Text for the symbol.

RETURN VALUES

	Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.

EXAMPLES

       Example #1

	      numfmt_set_symbol(3) example

	      <?php
	      $fmt = numfmt_create( 'de_DE', NumberFormatter::DECIMAL );
	      echo "Sep: ".numfmt_get_symbol($fmt, NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL)."
";
	      echo numfmt_format($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000)."
";
	      numfmt_set_symbol($fmt, NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL, "*");
	      echo "Sep: ".numfmt_get_symbol($fmt, NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL)."
";
	      echo numfmt_format($fmt, 1234567.891234567890000)."
";
	      ?>

       Example #2

	      OO example

	      <?php
	      $fmt = new NumberFormatter( 'de_DE', NumberFormatter::DECIMAL );
	      echo "Sep: ".$fmt->getSymbol(NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL)."
";
	      echo $fmt->format(1234567.891234567890000)."
";
	      $fmt->setSymbol(NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL, "*");
	      echo "Sep: ".$fmt->getSymbol(NumberFormatter::GROUPING_SEPARATOR_SYMBOL)."
";
	      echo $fmt->format(1234567.891234567890000)."
";
	      ?>

       The above example will output:

       Sep: .
       1.234.567,891
       Sep: *
       1*234*567,891

SEE ALSO

       numfmt_get_error_code(3), numfmt_get_symbol(3).

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