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by cweagans 11y ago
Most of the time, whenever somebody asks a question of the form "Something bad happened to me and it's not my fault. Advice?", the answer is usually "Talk to somebody who knows what they're doing (lawyer, accountant
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by cweagans 11y ago
Also, I contributed to Drupal for a while starting in high school. That itself doesn't bring in cash, but it established a reputation in that community, and now I work at NBC doing Drupal development. Open source contribution is a mean
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by cweagans 11y ago
I built simple websites for local businesses, and then moved into building an overly complicated CMS and hosting service for them. I put in like 18 hour days for almost a year (skipped a lot of classes in high school), and ended up with a p
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by cweagans 11y ago
Just build something - it really doesn't matter what. You have a good window of time where you have very little requirements in terms of paying rent, bills, etc., so take advantage of that and just write as much code as you possibly ca
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by cweagans 12y ago
It's not worth the risk. Go out and spend a couple hundred bucks on a Chromebook or something. If you need more computing muscle, use vim on an EC2 instance or something. I agree with other commenters saying you should dump your curren
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by cweagans 12y ago
KI4KLW here. I got my license when I was 13 and haven't had anything more permanent than a tri-band HT (Yaesu VX-5R) since then. I usually volunteer in more of a coordination role, though, and have been involved with multiple ISS conta
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by cweagans 12y ago
$110k. I work from Boise, ID for a major media company in NYC.
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by cweagans 12y ago
I use slides.com. Easy/fast to put together a good looking slide deck, and I can provide a link for people to watch the slides on their own device (if I'm presenting somewhere that doesn't have a projector or something).
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by cweagans 12y ago
Drupal is open to beginners too. See https://www.drupal.org/core-office-hours for more info. Basically, you can join an IRC channel and let them know you're new to the project and want to help, and you'll have a t
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by cweagans 12y ago
Are you suggesting that off-the-shelf frameworks/CMSes are somehow inferior to writing everything from scratch? That seems pretty myopic. We gain a lot from using Drupal.
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by cweagans 12y ago
Laravel is built on Symfony components, and much of Laravel can be used outside of Laravel.
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by cweagans 12y ago
Big debate? Use what works for you. I prefer using Twig because it enforces not shoving random PHP into your templates, and there's no performance hit for using it (since it's compiled back to PHP).
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by cweagans 12y ago
We haven't been/won't be using it. Most of our traffic is anonymous, so we can optimize other parts of our stack. We'd rather not have to debug weird shit that comes up because of HHVM incompatibility.
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by cweagans 12y ago
We use Drupal.
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by cweagans 12y ago
No, I mean that using FTP is the wrong/insecure/slow way to do it. SFTP at a minimum, please.
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by cweagans 12y ago
Nobody uses FTP for deployment anymore, but the idea is still the same: just get the file to the server.
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by cweagans 12y ago
I'm a PHP developer that works for a major media company. We do large scale deployments, and I'd like to say that PHP is a terrible language that gets a bad rap. It's getting better, and it's already 1000000x better than
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by cweagans 12y ago
Depends on what you're doing, I guess. Networking can be useful if success requires knowing/talking with other people. More generally, I've found more opportunities at events like this than I have anywhere else. From a health
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by cweagans 12y ago
Man, I'd be all over this. Personal chef as a service.
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by cweagans 12y ago
Fastmail.fm? It's as encrypted as webmail can be, and you can send gpg encrypted messages with a desktop client. I've been using it for just over a year, and I'm very happy with it.
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by cweagans 12y ago
I do contract Drupal development, and I charge strictly hourly. Don't do fixed bid. You will always get screwed over, and the risk simply isn't worth it. For reference, I charge $150/hour for Drupal development. Sure, you m
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by cweagans 12y ago
As long as you're not leaving banner ads on my walls, I'm happy. I'd try it.
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by cweagans 12y ago
Can I be snarky and ask why you didn't ask this question on StackOverflow? In all seriousness, some people will see it as a huge accomplishment. Some won't. If it were me, I'd put it on my resume. It seems like having a good
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by cweagans 12y ago
It's definitely cheaper.
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by cweagans 12y ago
Do yourself a favor and stop using shared hosting services. A few years ago, you could justify it because of the cost. VPSes are so cheap these days, though, that it's silly to hamstring yourself with shared hosting. Digital Ocean is
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by cweagans 12y ago
Tarsnap. Cheap, encrypted, and reliable.
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by cweagans 12y ago
I don't do any visual design work, but I'll convert designs to HTML/CSS, though. I specialize in backend development and prefer taking that work when I can. For that, I charge $175/hr.
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by cweagans 12y ago
It's "private" in the sense that it's not going over the public network, rather than private to your account. This was pretty clear when the feature was announced. I don't know why it's a surprise now. You stil
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by cweagans 12y ago
It's not that time consuming. Digital Ocean will set up LAMP for you (or even install Drupal or Wordpress if that's your thing). Secure SSH, set up your app, set up monitoring and leave it alone.
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by cweagans 12y ago
High school. I was running a web development business at the time, so the teachers that didn't have this policy very rarely saw any homework from me. My US Government class was awful. I passed all the tests with a > 90% grade, but h

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