mjburgess

Breaking into Web Development

I work as an analyst contractor, these days my roles are often a mixture of development and management. I have been asked by a countless number of people what they need to do to get the jobs I’m offered – and it’s simpler than most expect. The market for talented developers in the United Kingdom (and in many talent-lite communities around the world) is such that anyone who merely knows what they are doing has a very good chance of getting a job. Even a job contracting (which ordinarily has senior-level requirements).

To become a web developer with a good salary and employment expectations you need skills. Below I’ll provide a plan to get you towards the top of the largest market: PHP Web Development. Advanced knowledge of everything on this list would immediately make you one of the best, so just strive to have an exposure if not a comprehensive understanding (though the *starred points are essential). To learn these technologies you should use several in combination on on

ziadoz

Awesome PHP

Awesome PHP has been relocated permanently to its own Github repository. No further updates will made to this gist.

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cystbear

<?php

class DefaultController extends Controller
{
    /**
    * Dashboard page.
    * @Permissions(perm="dashboard_view")
    * @Route("/", name="ITEDashboardBundle_index")
    * @Template()
    * @return array

j

<?php

namespace JStout\MainBundle\Session;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\SessionStorage\NativeSessionStorage;

/**
 * MemcacheSessionStorage.
 */
class MemcacheSessionStorage extends NativeSessionStorage

danmackinlay

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          supervisord
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Example initscript
# Description:       This file should be used to construct scripts to be
#                    placed in /etc/init.d.