PinoyLancer (PL)

There was an issue on the RSS feed the past few days. It was some characters showing on the project title. Those were single and double quotes not properly decoded on the XML. What I should have done is instead of just placing:
htmlspecialchars_decode($str);
It should be:
htmlspecialchars_decode($str, ENT_QUOTES);
The latter will decode both double and single quotes.
Next time, [...]

We all know that most freelancers don’t want to go and scour the web for active projects to just find out that there’s nothing for them to take on. That might just be a waste of time.
Well, I’ve been a freelancer most of my life and I know how freelancers feel. Having said that, we’ve [...]

PinoyLancer just launched!
Just want to let you know that PinoyLancer.com (PL) is now open for you to post your freelance projects and gigs. It is free and it is 100% made by pinoy for pinoys!
http://pinoylancer.com

If you have any comments, suggestions, bug reports, please do let me know. I can be reached at ajbatac[at]pinoylancer.com and will [...]

Some more bug fixes and off we go. :)
–aj

So here it is. The very first post that should have been “Hello world“.
I’d like to introduce myself. My name is AJ and I’m a serial startup starter. This is PinoyLancer. And it will be a hub for freelancers, outsourcing project managers, and simply put - people who does freelancing.
The site is almost done and [...]