Hi everyone So I’ve been using content management systems on and off for the best part of 10 years. From the by-gone days of PHP Nuke and when content management systems like PHP Fusion were all the rage. To using more modern, and definitely more widely adopted systems like Joomla and, of course, WordPress; and just to …
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Hi there everyone Something I’m often faced with, having lots of friends with varying degrees of programming experience, is how do (PHP) developers move from sub 25k roles to the higher end of the spectrum, the 35-60k developer roles. Generally, in my experience, the are some key differences in the salary expectations and the skills …
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Tonight is just a quick one, not my usual essay. I was just curious to see what other people though. Being a PHP Developer I primarily work within LAMP environments. Occasionally having swapped out Apache for Nginx, but I am by far a specialist. Until recently I was able to jump around through the Linux …
Warning: This is quite an old article. Since then on this topic I have posted another about Dependency Injection: Dependency Inversion and Interface Segregation using Laravel’s Service Container Good evening everyone. I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for a little while, it’s a common discussion point within developers working on enterprise level …
So this week I thought I would do a quick article, a bit of an open letter to recruiters, really. Throughout my career, especially when I was contracting, I have had a really rocky relationship with recruiters. I have to say some agencies have been an absolute pleasure to deal with, others have been down …