Treading the PHPath
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The Job Market
Telecommutingbringing the competition to your town
How do you stand out?
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Evangelist, Speaker and Contributor.
Developer at WEBclusive.
Enabler at AmsterdamPHP.
Rafael Dohms@rdohms
5.000.000+PHP developers
by skoop
“ the nephews”
i do this for a hobby
research and adapt
the innovators
copy & paste crew
thinkers and sharers
“this is my day job”
Lots of Job Openingsfew qualified developers
The pillars of professional growth
Fir0002/Flagstaffotos
Knowledge
Personal Marketing and Communication
Networking and People Skills
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Noun:1. Information and skills acquired
through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.
Seek Knowledge!read, research, practice
What do I need to know?
Object Oriented Code
2+ Frameworks
Unit Testing (TDD, BDD)
Version Control (Git, SVN)
Dependency Injection
Dependency Management
Javascript
Scalability
School is never out
What do you do in your free time?
Pickup a pet project
Ready to go and without ideas?
Fix bugs in OSS
Help your User Group
Write Unit Tests
Your own tooling
Certificationsare they worth it?
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1. The act of promoting your self and your work to achieve your own personal goals in life.
by slushpup
Your name is your calling card
What does Google say about you?
“[blogging] ... not only can you promote yourself and your opinions...but you also get the opportunity to discuss them with others and ... learn from their particular experiences.”
Marco Tabini - Editor of php|archby sebastian bergmann
“senior [developers] ... need to be mature enough to not only express themselves, but to be able to either defend their position or correct themselves.”
Cal Evans - Blue Parabola / Zend DevZoneby rob allen
They really get alongand so do the tips they gave
by Jeremy Kendall
Write and Blog
Your own blog
Talk to @e3BethT at php|arch
Anywhere!
Participate! Show up.
User Groups Sessions
Hackathons / Testfest
Conferences
Contribute!
You find bugs everyday
Unit Tests
Share your own library
Give a talk!
Start in your own company
User Groups, they are everywhere
Talk about what you see everyday
by Josh Holmes
GitHubcontributing made easy
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1. The art of meeting people and making them remember you.
Business Cardsalways have them with you
Know who will be there
by skoop
Socials
by Eli White
Keep in touch
by sebastian bergmann
Mailing lists
IRC: #phpc
CONFERENCE ALL THE THINGS!
The pillars of professional growth
Fir0002/Flagstaffotos
Knowledge
Personal Marketing and Communication
Networking and People Skills
your comfort zone
Amsterdamyou are here
Life
“Life starts outside your comfort zone”
http://slides.doh.ms
http://doh.ms
@rdohms
https://joind.in/7081
Thank you.
