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- Dear Jr, Developers, EVERY Sr. Developer you know and admire for what they know or can do has spent time this week staring blankly at code and screaming in their head "WHY DOESN'T THIS WORK?" It's not just you. :)
- Managers: If you call your people "resources", they get to call you “overhead”. Ingrain that in your memory.
- Reasons you should interrupt a programmer w/headphones on: 1: Building is on fire 2: Last call for coffee 3: Pizza arrived Reasons you should not interrupt a programmer w/headphones on: 1: Every other reason
- Time for my yearly reminder. Managers: If you call your people "resources", they get to call you “overhead”. Burn that in your memory.
- I no longer quantify problems in the length of time it took to solve them, or the lines of code. My new measurement is "Tabs". "This was a 30 tab problem. I had to go in deep." "I solved that one with only 1 tab. " :)
- Sitting at work bored and wondering what to do? DO me a favor. Please send : - @derickr (XDebug) - @s_bergmann (PHPUnit) - @seldaek and @naderman (Composer) a huge thank you. Outside of the Core, these 4 have affected how we write PHP more than anyone else. :)
- Conference Participants: Q&A time is not "Stump the Chump" time. It is a chance for you to get clarification, not try and prove you know more than the speaker. Be nice, be polite, or find another talk. :)
- Developer: We need to migrate to PHP 7.2. Client: Why? D: It's twice as fast as the PHP 5 version we are using now! C: The site is fast enough. D: Then we can reduce our infrastructure cost by almost 1/2. C: SOLD! SUPPORT PHP 7.2
- Replying to @johnrich and @BradPaisleyMan, that sux. I really liked @BradPaisley. I remember how crushed I was when I found out @jimmybuffett raised money for Hillary. Dang near killed me. This isn’t that bad, but it still sux.
- Dear future potential employers. My salary history is none of your business. The only reason you ask is to see if you are "paying to much". The only questions you need to ask are: - Can I do the job - Can you afford what I am asking. If YES to both, the rest doesn't matter.
- Replying to @ScottPresler and @elonmuskYou, sir, are a master. This is just an epic response. Honestly, I've not enjoyed following someone this much since John MacAfee passed. Well done. :)
- Do you develop with error_reporting(E_NONE)? PHP 8 is gonna be an eye opener for you. :) Set E_ALL NOW and fix those E_WARNINGS and E_NOTICES before it's too late.
- "Turns out work-from-home employees work a true full-shift (or more) versus being late to the office or leaving early multiple times a week" bit.ly/2wKtDii
