Any laravel fans out there?

Too real.

Let me share a piece of advice to entry level devs that are getting ready for job interviews that I wish someone gave to me when I was first looking for work straight out of school. Do not focus making yourself look good to this company by trying to make your resume flashy or trying to oversell yourself. Although its important to present yourself sure, but it should not be the foundation for you to base your interview goals around. Rather focus on the company itself. Find out whether the company itself uses modern technology,practices and upholds to project management and the software development cycle, find out how they work,communicate and develop as a team. Simply put focus on whether they are worth working for instead of looking like your worth being hired. Can they collaborate,communicate and solve problems efficiently. Otherwise you may end up getting hired and hating your job. Just a thought and some advice on my own experiences. Hope it helps someone.

Sad day when you find out you work for a company who cares more about a working product than a good product.

When you work remotely and communication from your boss or coworkers sucks and you're paranoid that they think you arent doing anything since they dont check in with you.

When you advise coworkers to do something one way because you know better but they do it their way anyway so this is you when shit hits the fan.

Happy birthday to my wife. I love you so much and I'm so grateful for you. You are the reason I aspire to be a better dev and push to find better opportunities to be a better employee and get better financial oppotunities for our little family. Those days where I work late and you get after me and say things like "its past 5pm why are you still working", I want you to know, although it doesnt look like it, I'm doing it for our little family. I love you and our son so much and hope your day was great. I wish I could give you the world, but for now, I hope my heart and love will suffice.:)

When you see that green highlighted

OK ( # tests, # assertions)

How I feel when im asked to add functionality to a project that was built like 10+ years ago and needs refactored in its entirety but the code base is so terrible that youre honestly better off just starting it from scratch but you are thrown into 5 other million things and there is no time to do it so you just shit out the bare minimum code that will not break the rest of the application.

I thought it was funny lol

Ive repeatedly posted this over and over and i will continue to because i really want this collaboration network to grow! If you're not interested then share this with anyone who might be:

"Guys help me grow my small collaboration group. If you're interested in learning new things,collaborating new ideas or just wanna talk to some cool cats then join us. My goal is to grow it as much as possible so anyone can find the help they need on their next/current idea. If interested drop your email and ill send you an invite to our slack. I don't care what your skill set is. You might learn something new. You might not. If anything youll make new friends :)"

Guys help me grow my small collaboration group. If you're interested in learning new things,collaborating new ideas or just wanna talk to some cool cats then join us. My goal is to grow it as much as possible so anyone can find the help they need on their next/current idea. If interested drop your email and ill send you an invite to our slack. I don't care what your skill set is. You might learn something new. You might not . if anything youll make new friends:)

Im always trying to learn new things. Im passionate about learning new things, especially development. So much i started a small collaboration group of developers and slack group to collaborate new projects/ideas,get to know new people, and just to learn new things from each other. The group is not language specific developers only, but mostly consists of PHP/Laravel developers at the moment, so im always trying to grow that network as much as possible, so if you would like to join my network to collaborate new ideas or to just even talk to some cool cats, ill send you an invite any day. Anyways, back to my original reason for this post. Im mid level developer who considers himself pretty knowledgeable in PHP and Laravel. Im curious to what other developers use to learn new things. Im constantly questioning my skillset and compare myself to senior developers who always blow me away with their knowledge which often makes me feel like i dont know enough. Currently I use resources such as:

-laracasts.com
-serversforhackers.com
-digital ocean articles or any textbook that wont cost me an arm and a leg lol

I mean i just want to learn about tech related stuff always but currently interested in learning specifically about development topics such as:

- Server administration because i would consider this my weakest skill set (things like provisioning,nginx/security, deployment)
- Continous Integration (as ive never been at a job that practices it)
- RESTful APIs(as ive never developed one)

and so much more but i wont waste your time with my never ending list. What resources/tools do you guys use for your learning?

Social media that's doesn't misuse your private info like facebook. :p

Take a chance on new idea boyz and girlz.

Fuck you unreasonable deadlines.

Well shit

When life is being mean to you! :(

My life lately.

Finally got another job!! I have been freed of my shackles of my coworker monkeys and ColdFusion ;D

Accurate af

Whenever I visit websites and I see vue dev tools light up..x)

Mostly coworkers code lol but sometimes its my own code.:p

When coworkers built the shop to allow adding items to cart via url query parameters-_-

/shop/?itemNum=1234&Qty=4

..what?

Are sql joins a bad practice? :o
I recently did some work on a page for a site ive never worked on cause my boss told me to. So they recently added product detail video urls to a table that has a relationship to the products table. The existing code was querying for the products on that said page and then during the loop that was outputting the products ,there was another query for getting the url for the current iteration/product. Told my coworker that this imo was pretty inefficient way to do it and switched it to a join and did 1 query then output that but his words were "The way it is now maybe ineffecient in your opinion but it works. Also combining inner joins with left or right is not a good practice. If the data is changed upstream the entire query would need to be redone to accommodate the change". Mind you that they query views a lot which are all made from queries that use joins and I'm also pretty sure these views were written by someone who used to be here because these guys are not good at sql or at least that's what there queries show. I'm at the point now where I'm realizing that my boss and this other guy don't give a fuck about efficiency or doing things the right way they just want it "to work". So this coworker changed my query back to the way it was because he said it broke the shopping cart even though that was already broken when I started... What is life? Maybe I'm the stupid one?

When coworkers have a var dump on a page in production.-_-

I aint saying shit because everytime I mention something they do wrong I get assigned with fixing it. -_-

A couple weeks ago, my coworkers built a site where 90% of pages consisted of all images and uncompressed images at that. I'm talking even the text was images. At the time I told my boss that it should be done with css and this would later come to bite them in the ass with page load speed and seo. He ignored me and said it was fine. Well today my boss assigned me with going back and basically removing images with things that can be done with css because load speed was terrible and seo wasnt too hot. Maybe if he listened to me from the get go, he wouldn't have to assign me this unnecessary work and I can focus on cleaning up all the other piss poor excuse of websites they have. Seriously tired of feeling like I, the junior dev is doing the teaching to these "senior developers" who get paid like twice as much as I do when I'm the one who is always doing the cleanups /optimization and guiding them on all their problems. Is it Friday yet?-_-

So I just noticed that devRant has a collab section for helping you find collaborators for your project. Thats awesome sauce. A while ago I had thought of writing up a site to do something very similar but just did not have time so I did the next best thing I could think of and started a collaboration slack group for this purpose. Right now its pretty small but I'm slowly adding developers to it. Its targeted for those looking to collaborate new ideas and get help on existing ones. Right now it mostly consists of php and laravel developers but by no means is it only for php and laravel. My goal is to get the slack to grow big enough so that people can easily find help for their ideas/projects. By no means am I trying to sway people away from devRant's collab feature, in fact i urge you to use them, they deserve it for bringing us devrant! But If youre interested in joining a great environment, comment your email and ill send you an invite to our slack so we can see if there is anything our current team can help you with. Its also good chance to make friends. Help me to help you to help me to help everyone else:)

Our slack group url

collab-corp.slack.com

Keep an eye for an invite. :)

My life

When you keep telling your boss that you remade one of their sites so that it has BCrypt(currently use SHA-512),CSRF checks, stricter Auth/Cookie encryption and that we should swap it and all he says we will get to it.

wot n tarnation-_-