steven_braham

I often watch video's from this channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/jsonmez It focusses on all the non-technical stuff like finding clients as a freelancer, how to learn a new programming language, become more productive etc.

Thanks everyone for the responses. It seems that forcing clients to use a particular ticket system is not a good idea.

I have now created a free account at Hubspot. Hubspot keeps track of all e-mails and calls I make to people and I can automatically add notes and tasks to each form of communication.

It's a mix.

For example, I have taken over the Wordpress hosting and management of several existing websites. They pay me a fixed fee and from time to time I adjust some things for them.

And there also ongoing projects in development where people leave feedback.

Could you please explain that further? Isn't it standard practice at a lot of companies that you raise a support ticket instead?

https://mega.nz is a popular online encrypted file sharing website. Maybe you could check if they have an affiliate program?

Tweeting about new tools or discussions is an interesting option. Thanks for the suggestion :)

I don't think as a developer that you can fully escape from crud, since nearly every application has to do some database stuff.

I recommend trying to move to a position where you don't have to code much such as QA, CTO or system architect.

Probably every major popular framework has good crud support. Most of these frameworks contain a orm that will the heavy lifting.

I don't think anyone has a specific language or platform for crud. Most people pick the one they are most familiar with.

Nice. One of the things that kept me away from the .net platform, is that the only viable development IDE is Visual Studio.

Especially on OSX and Linux. I hope that together with the new .net core initiative, .net becomes truly cross platform like Java.

I used to program a lot in C# before buying a MacBook Pro a few years ago and really liked the .net platform.

One of the things I like really well about Laravel is that it integrates with modern front-end development tools and frameworks.

They have an excellent asset manager called Elixir that acts as a wrapper for Gulp. You can even use it without Laraval. In your gulpfile, you just have to require Elixir and tell it what are the source and output directories. It even has an option to automatically suffix a random hash to your app.js and style.css for cache busting.

In your template, you only have to include the style.css or app.js and it will auto inject the latest version like this: <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ elixir('css/all.css') }}"> will become <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/all-blabla.css">.

You can read more about it here: https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/elixir

The Framework also has a lot of build in stuff to simplify connecting Vue.js components to your PHP backend.

Laravel is mostly built on the idea that everything is loosely coupled.

For example, in Yii2 (another popular php framework) everything is built around the Yii ORM and routing system. Laravel strictly separates all components.

Apart from these two things, there really aren't many benefits that make Laravel stand out. I have worked a lot with both the Yii platform and the Laravel platform and it's mostly a matter of preference.

Laravel also has an official stripped down derivative called Lumen. It's meant for building API's.

I saw that thread before, but nothing really appealed to me.

Damm RoR is nearly Laravel with a different syntax. Development and deployment is also very easy. I was always wary of RoR, because I read online that it's so good at simplifying and abstracting stuff, it can become a black box that is hard to debug.

However, apart from that, this is exactly what I sought. Thank you for making me reconsider Ruby :)

Maybe on Medium? They have great search functionality and lot's of high quality content.

Django, started learning it in may and loved it so far. I have a lot of experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel and the Yii platform and NodeJS + React + Redux. So I wanted to broaden my skillset :)

Franz: http://meetfranz.com/

It's a cross-platform messaging client that combines, Whatsapp, Facebook chat, Slack etc. into one application.

Even banks can be victims of inefficacy or corruption due to too many middle men. Furthermore, they can also have disputes about ownership of loans, property or money. In my country, there is a bank that is actively embracing and supporting blockchain: https://www.abnamro.com/en/about-abnamro/innovation/blockcha...

Jep, love that chart. Recently showed it to a colleague when we were discussing if it's was worth it to automate our domain creating processes.

I think your mindset is a symptom of imposter syndrome. This is a common problem for developers. It makes them think that they are unworthy of their rewards or that most of their achievements are insignificant or fraudulent.