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That's fair. I've been stuck dealing with CodeIgniter people for the last year, and that's a shitshow and a half. It's likely colouring my perceptions, especial
by drspacemonkey 10y ago
That's fair. I've been stuck dealing with CodeIgniter people for the last year, and that's a shitshow and a half. It's likely colouring my perceptions, especially coming from the Rails community. God, I miss Rspec.
- busterarm 10y agoI came from Rails into WordPress and the stink that I've picked up from having this on my resume has definitely hurt my career prospects...not like I'd rather be working on Rails right now anyway. I've resigned myself to digging deeper into Elixir and Erlang and using my Ruby background to get the next gig. I interviewed with some folks recently who are primarily CodeIgniter and transitioning to Laravel -- wasn't a fun interview. They just couldn't see the benefits of a functional style anywhere in PHP.
- computerex 10y agoSurely it hasn't hurt your career, PHP is still the most common language of the web. It's never a bad thing to have PHP experience on your resume imo.
- busterarm 10y agoI guess. The last year and a half I've done nothing but heavy WordPress backend and plugin development and large ETL projects in Ruby. Right now I'm working on a Jekyll with WordPress-as-CMS backend architecture for a high-traffic site. I think I'm building really cool stuff but when I talk to the kinds of companies I want to work for here in NY, most people seem to just tune me out the second I mention WordPress. I'd have an easier time if I spent a lot more time working with Node and React, but for the work that I do here those are the wrong tools.