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zachinglis
Knowing your previous skill and knowledge would give more context. Did you know any other languages? etc
james-fend
Yep. I was a designer for a few years before, so I knew html/css from scratch. Had absolutely no clue about programming when I started. I will probably make a blog post detailing exactly how my progress was here a bit later.
TheSeb
Take a look at the comment formatting, see for example: https://www.freelancify.com/projects/1-craigslist-search-scr... .

The app does not replace new lines with <br />s or <p></p>s.

TheSeb
Might be a good idea to auto-link urls in the comments as well: https://github.com/tenderlove/rails_autolink
james-fend
that's true too. Thanks again.. I'll prob try to get that implemented today as well.
TheSeb
Cool :). Forgot to say that it's a really solid site. I'm definitely impressed by the fact that you've picked up Rails so fast and implemented that entire site. Good work!
james-fend
Yes, thanks for pointing that out! Going to try to get that fixed today! Thanks for the suggestion!!
TheSeb
And while I'm still at it: Why can't I both hire workers and bid for projects using one account?

Say that I want to outsource some work on my project x while still wanting to bid on someone's project y?

james-fend
great question. would be nice to do that, going to have to somehow implement that here in the next weeks.
serkanh
If you dont mind sharing, how do you handle escrows?