Dear Reader,
I’ve written a version of this email twice today so I thought I would post it for the other 4 people that read my blog.
The question posed to me is this.
I am new to PHP, but not necessarily to programming. How do I get hired as a PHP developer.
In both cases, I wrote something like this.
Dear XXXX,
First welcome to the PHP Community, there is always room for more! :)
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[UPDATE: New Slides posted, the link is below.]
Dear Reader,
Pop Quiz: How many of your developers wake up in the morning excited to work on your project? If the answer is not “all of them”, you probably need to look at how open source projects attract developers and motivate them to write code for free.
Put yourself in your developer’s shoes for a moment.
You are a professional developer, you work on a project all day at work but you live to get home and start working on your passion, an open source project. Suddenly, instead of slogging through the day, you are actively engaged in a project that may be much more complex than the one you are working on at work. Worse yet, you may actually have more responsibility, more input, more voice on your open source team than you do at work. You wish your day job excited you as much as your open source project. You wish you could be as engaged in it.
Dear Reader,
CodeWorks 09 day #: -1
Days till I see the Lovely and Talented Kathy:08
Cities left: 7
Miles Traveled: 0
Cups of Coffee: 0
Current Current City: Utrecht
Average number of cups of coffee per day that I drink at a conference: 4
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