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The other day a song popped into my head, just a few up-tempo instrumental phrases — guitar, bass, drums and a Hammond B3 organ. I knew instantly what it was, though I hadn’t heard it in at least 20 years. It was a passing moment from “Martha’s Madman,” the first song on the first side of an LP called “The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood.” I bought the record when it was released in 1970. I was a freshman at Berkeley.

To determine the price of a Web project, you need to determine your expenses, the general aspects of the project, how much you want to earn over the year, the profit margin you want to aim for, and how many projects you expect to have annually.

Nevertheless, the purpose of this FAQ is to provide you with a number of ways to arrive at your rates, and to do so without once running afoul of Guild policies or discussing the actual rates of any particular web developer.

The secret is simple. The secret is almost obvious. But sometimes we find the secret hard to justify. The secret is: Raise your rates.

Today we are going to break an unwritten rule for agencies, we are going to reveal an important page from our playbook on how we price a project. What is somewhat ironic is that we think it's a pretty bad rule, that one of the last things we think anyone should hide from a potential client is how your pricing works.

This is a bundle (think: plug-in) for the stunningly-good text-editor TextMate that allows you to write screenplays in plain-text and export them to various other formats.

With the need to store so many bits of data that don’t easily make up individual files, a number of applications are designed manage such disparate forms of data. Bare Bones Software has released Yojimbo 1.1, an innovative program that lets you store and manage snippets, notes, and much more