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Go for London, someone with "a variety of programming languages" is always welcome there, especially if you also program on weekends just for fun. But I doubt P

by TomK32 16y ago

Go for London, someone with "a variety of programming languages" is always welcome there, especially if you also program on weekends just for fun. But I doubt PHP programmers are getting well-paid, at least I never did (ok, that was still during uni) but I was able to ask and get more money once I switched over to Ruby (or take Python, doesn't really matter as long as it's not so mainstreamy as PHP; frameworks are a must, stop writing your own, contribute to existing open source instead!). If you don't mind going abroad, Berlin is hip and there are plenty of older, well-funded startups who don't require German skills from you. If you are mad enough to work on your own apps during this year, make sure to release every app within a month, maximum. You'd only waste time and motivation if you wouldn't.

Stymie 16y ago
Thanks for the comment, definitely things to consider. Unfortunately I'm not ready to move away yet which sort of rules out both options for now although I would love to travel. Writing my own framework was a learning curve and I've created something bespoke which does exactly what I want, and does it well resulting in a fraction of the overhead again giving me a really good level of performance. The idea about setting deadlines is great and I wish I'd done that thus far. Taking up rails has actually been a goal of mine this year, I'm fairly competent with Python already -- but for immediate work PHP is the most viable option since I feel I have a lot of knowledge to offer. Thanks again for your comment!
- TomK32 16y ago
  Writing things from scratch that work as you want is not as difficult task, be able to understand and apply someone else's work (and in Open Source we must do this every day) is a much more valuable skill. When you don't want to travel for longer time, at least travel to conferences ( (e.g. RubyManor will happen again this year or January in London) or larger User Group meetings. Those are great opportunities to learn about the newest stuff and directly talk with someone about this. That's very much different to just reading it in the internets.

by TomK32 16y ago

Stymie 16y ago

Thanks for the comment, definitely things to consider. Unfortunately I'm not ready to move away yet which sort of rules out both options for now although I would love to travel. Writing my own framework was a learning curve and I've created something bespoke which does exactly what I want, and does it well resulting in a fraction of the overhead again giving me a really good level of performance. The idea about setting deadlines is great and I wish I'd done that thus far. Taking up rails has actually been a goal of mine this year, I'm fairly competent with Python already -- but for immediate work PHP is the most viable option since I feel I have a lot of knowledge to offer. Thanks again for your comment!

TomK32 16y ago
Writing things from scratch that work as you want is not as difficult task, be able to understand and apply someone else's work (and in Open Source we must do this every day) is a much more valuable skill. When you don't want to travel for longer time, at least travel to conferences ( (e.g. RubyManor will happen again this year or January in London) or larger User Group meetings. Those are great opportunities to learn about the newest stuff and directly talk with someone about this. That's very much different to just reading it in the internets.