Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? by thrownaway954 on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:50PM (#18748913)

PHP and Wordpress

Had to start over at the bottom after alcohol addiction destroyed me.

Landed a job working with WordPress and started having quite a bit of with it. Naturally I just HAD to start tinkering and learned PHP to write plugins and manipulate the hell out of it.

PHP isn't all that bad and is actually pretty easy to pick up. My only gripe with it is that quite a bit of the libraries aren't on par with other languages I've used. For instance, PDF generation libraries aren't nearly as good as Ruby, .Net, heck even ColdFusion is better.

Great thing about Wordpress is that thr plugin eco system makes stitching websites together a breeze. There is a plugin for almost anything.

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Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? by andrewstellman on Monday December 24, 2018 @10:44AM (#18752606)

This is such a great story. Congratulations on turning things around!

https://twitter.com/AndrewStellman/status/107722796317793484...

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Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? by thrownaway954 on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:31PM (#18828342)

thanks man!

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Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? by tomcam on Sunday December 23, 2018 @07:35PM (#18749427)

That's an amazing story. Congrats!

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Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? by wuschel on Sunday December 23, 2018 @08:31PM (#18749657)

Seconded. Please take my warm hearted congratulations. Addiction is a horrible enemy.

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Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? by sebastienrocks on Monday December 24, 2018 @06:59AM (#18751757)

I would suggest you now focus your attention elsewhere. Wordpress is a great eco-system, but if you want to earn more, dive into Javascript with ES6.

From there you can pick-up a UI framework (I would personally suggest Vue.js), and move onto exciting large-scale front-end applications, with a better pay-check.

I've almost doubled my salary moving from a Wordpress developer to a front-end engineer in a years time.

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Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? by somatic on Saturday December 29, 2018 @10:42AM (#18784055)

If I may ask, where did you find a front-end job you liked?

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Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? by andrei_says_ on Sunday December 23, 2018 @10:27PM (#18750089)

Check out CraftCMS. Clean, well-architected, flexible and extensible.

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Re:Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018? by jayar95 on Sunday December 23, 2018 @08:52PM (#18749733)

Take a look at symfony

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