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It's really not a bad way to go. You may still get reactions like you've come to expect from developers, but a sign of a good developer is whether after having
by joshdev 15y ago
It's really not a bad way to go. You may still get reactions like you've come to expect from developers, but a sign of a good developer is whether after having that knee jerk reaction, they start asking about your technology choices and how you've implemented things. Essentially you want a generalist who is technology agnostic and is willing to roll up their sleeves and get to work in any codebase. PHP isn't that different from other languages and after a week spent learning the nuances with a little training help they should be able to be productive.
- apinstein 15y agoThat's a great point, too! Thanks for the great responses.
- smokeyj 15y agoLocal PHP hacker here, what kind of opportunities you got? I feel like I've seen PHOCOA before, PHP works atlanta?
- apinstein 15y agoI'd love to chat. Please reach out to me - not sure the most proper way to do that in an HN thread. I am apinstein on GitHub or check out tourbuzz.net contact page. I was at php|works Atlanta, but I didn't present. I have presented it at ATLPHP before. I've presented on other topics as well though and usually at least mention that I created phocoa during my bio. Our position isn't just PHP actually, but that is our primary back-end language. Probably makes the other commenters' posts about multi-language experience all the more relevant. We do a lot of front-end work in Javascript and we use ruby a decent amount as well (rake, chef, capistrano).