We delivered Motoclub.BG and now it's available and accessible. The web portal is an online version of a magazine for motorcycle sports and vehicles, ATVs and others. As the bikers' favourite music is rock/metal, breaking news on concerts and live events in clubs are posted there as well.

The portal has few interesting sections for magazine online overview. You could find news and specialised articles, moto calendar with coming events, catalogue with specifications for different brands and so on. Filters and archives provide searching via keywords or month/year ranges. RSS feed on latest news is staying in the left column, next to the invitation to the Facebook group of the website.

The project is CakePHP based with MySQL database behind. I've implemented a few custom solutions on user management and RSS aggregation which I'm going to describe later.

During my couple years of work as a PC techy support guy, administrator, company hired developer and freelancer, I've finally separated three different types of work: project-base, support and salary.

Project-base

This is a popular way of working in USA and Europe. The client has a task to be performed by an expert. Therefore the employer seeks for an appropriate guru to fulfil the one's requirement. Simple as that.

What are the major characteristics of project-base work?

• fixed requirements
• usually short-term or medium-term
• fixed price for the whole project or different phases

Focusing on the broader perspective, a freelancer could be hired for a small website or script, but there are big corporate systems developed for tens of manmonths, too. So borders may vary. But requirements are fixed at the beginning, as for the money, too. No surprises during the development process.

Support

Support staff is hired for a preliminary defined schedule. Let's say every second Monday of the month or for 10 hours for the whole month. This is a capacity being paid at the beginning for doing simple (or important, but not that time wasting) tasks. The client doesn't need a full time expert, but wants a regular technical guy to be available for consultations or small fixes.

Usually, typical support marks:

• fixed work-time or hours
• fixed month/hour price

Support work could be tricky if you maintain couple of different support projects. But if business case is clear and hours can be easily predicted, than it is a sweet and not that engaging perspective.

Salary

That's probably the most popular working type in the world. Rules are simple: you have a week amount to fill and... you just have to fill it. Let's say 40h a week, 9am to 6pm working  at the office and that's all. Irregular overtime, constant availability. Tasks may vary - the employee is available at the work time he is contracted for and can be 'squeezed' for different tasks/services.

What's cool with salary work?

• regular and usually good payment
• some benefits as transportation taxes covered or cell phone bills
• work ands at 18 o'clock and then you're all free

And what kind of work do you do?