@kescherRant @alexbrooklyn it was even worse. He refused to learn git on the command line, insisted that the GUI tools he always cycled through were the better options. Every month he was installing a new GUI when the rest of the team switched to cli and managed to stay there.

You can load external epub or PDF docs to Kindle. On the Kindle page on Amazon's site, you should get an email address to send the doc to the specific device. I do this with orielly books all the time.

I once had to explain to a team lead that committing compiled CSS was a bad idea and that it should be ignored and compiled one in the production server. He argued that we shouldn't have to do that on the server (no ci server either) and then would keep wondering why everybody would have merge conflicts on the CSS file.

Try Doctrine as well.

@doyouknowty It was some boilerplate that was commented as a temporary reason of "I might need this later." I didn't, actually.

There is a video on YouTube by Today I Found Out that explains it a bat. There was a guy who was en route to a young US to get us to switch, but he was taken by pirates. He missed the deadline and we have inches, feet, and miles because of it.

scotch.io is a good frontend site.

Embarrass yourself. Pull the trigger. Get feedback. Learn from it all. If the project sucks, it won't be used. If it's good, it will. If it's great, it will get pull requests. But you will just make yourself miserable more and more the longer you wait to pull that trigger feeling like you aren't good enough.

My aunt used to call me to fix her families computers all the time. And she thought that fixing me dinner would be payment enough.

I used to schedule phone interviews during my lunch. Sometimes for directly after my working day, but could never guarantee that time.

I would look at some tools for frameworks for pre built dashboards. Examples would include Voyager for laravel or the API platform for symfony.

As someone who works with symfony, as long as you understand php, the learning curve is pretty low.

I use the php-cs-fixer tool to fix any formatting issues I forgot about, as well as anything that a team member did. With a large enough codebase that doesn't get checked, take a moment to enjoy others pain as they pull the commit off just formatting fixes.

@brano88 there were some more...issues.

If memory serves correctly, mysqldump does not require root out of the box. Plenty of documentation on it, plus you can run it in Cron.

I've worked in one large corporate environment and two small agencies. At the Corp job, I was handed a Mac. At the smaller agencies, I was given a choice of Mac or PC, and even got to run Linux on my PC.

@Stuxnet Less than two months later, I'm working in a better company and making more than the raise was.

I hated where I worked, complained to all my co-workers about it. Then I got the only raise in two years, only for management to find the complaints in slack a week later and fire me.

Who the hell returns a SOAP response?

Done that once.

Go buy a cheap pocket sided notebook. Carry it with you everywhere. Whenever you have an idea, any idea, no matter how small or stupid, write it down. Every few days, go through the ideas and see what actually makes sense. You wouldn't believe how many of the stupid ones become the best ones.

Edit: fixed a typo.

Birthday!

Sometimes, a small vacation helps. Even if just a weekend trip to the next town over, it will do wonders.

I use AWS for so much, it made sense to use Route53 to register. I even transferred domains in GoDaddy over to AWS.

And that's why there is Basecamp.

The client wants WordPress.

Happy birthday dude!

I worked for a digital marketing company that would some Magento on a server, load it up with free extensions, and then yell at me when the site isn't doing what the client wants. I would have to spend hours trying to build code inside mage to please the devil, and still want getting things done right.

Blink. I miss the blink tag.

But the computer is supposed to do exactly what I want, how I want, without me telling it what I want, or how I want.