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Breaking into Web Development

I work as an analyst contractor, these days my roles are often a mixture of development and management. I have been asked by a countless number of people what they need to do to get the jobs I’m offered – and it’s simpler than most expect. The market for talented developers in the United Kingdom (and in many talent-lite communities around the world) is such that anyone who merely knows what they are doing has a very good chance of getting a job. Even a job contracting (which ordinarily has senior-level requirements).

To become a web developer with a good salary and employment expectations you need skills. Below I’ll provide a plan to get you towards the top of the largest market: PHP Web Development. Advanced knowledge of everything on this list would immediately make you one of the best, so just strive to have an exposure if not a comprehensive understanding (though the *starred points are essential).

When you have completed projects, you can upload them to github (or anot

Awesome PHP Libraries

A list of amazingly awesome PHP libraries that you should be using:

Composer/Packagist - A package and dependency manager.
Symfony2 - A framework comprised of individual components.
Zend Framework 2 - Another framework comprised of individual components.
Symfony2 Components - The components that make Symfony2.
Aura Components - A package of PHP 5.4 components.
Illuminate Components - The components that make the upcoming Laravel 4 framework.

Code for Keras plays catch blog post

Train

python qlearn.py

Test

Generate figures

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

	<?php

	// secure hashing of passwords using bcrypt, needs PHP 5.3+
	// see http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/

	// salt for bcrypt needs to be 22 base64 characters (but just [./0-9A-Za-z]), see http://php.net/crypt
	// just an example; please use something more secure/random than sha1(microtime) :)
	$salt = substr(str_replace('+', '.', base64_encode(sha1(microtime(true), true))), 0, 22);

	// 2a is the bcrypt algorithm selector, see http://php.net/crypt

	<a href="http://vk.com/share.php?url=URL&title=TITLE&description=DESC&image=IMG_PATH&noparse=true" target="_blank" onclick="return Share.me(this);"> {шарь меня правильно}</a>
	<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?s=100&p%5Btitle%5D=TITLE&p%5Bsummary%5D=DESC&p%5Burl%5D=URL&p%5Bimages%5D%5B0%5D=IMG_PATH" target="_blank" onclick="return Share.me(this);">{шарь меня правильно}</a>
	<a href="http://connect.mail.ru/share?url=URL&title=TITLE&description=DESC&imageurl=IMG_PATH" target="_blank" onclick="return Share.me(this);">{шарь меня правильно}</a>
	<a href="http://www.odnoklassniki.ru/dk?st.cmd=addShare&st.s=1&st.comments=DESC&st._surl=URL" target="_blank" onclick="return Share.me(this);">{шарь меня правильно}</a>
	<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Ffiddle.jshell.net%2F_display%2F&text=TITLE&url=URL" target="_blank" onclick="return Share.me(this)">{шарь меня правильно}</a>

	// Пример кнопок с минимальной настройкой
	<p>Поделиться:
	<button class="social_share" data-type="vk">ВКонтакте</button>
	<button class="social_share" data-type="fb">Facebook</button>
	<button class="social_share" data-type="tw">Twitter</button>
	<button class="social_share" data-type="lj">LiveJournal</button>
	<button class="social_share" data-type="ok">Одноклассники</button>
	<button class="social_share" data-type="mr">Mail.Ru</button>
	</p>

	json {
	"name" - "Rob Ashton"
	"age" - 5
	"address" - {
	"number" - 444
	"line one" - "never you mind"
	}
	"family".array(
	{
	"name" - "Gareth Ashton"

	Latency Comparison Numbers
	--------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	#!/bin/bash

	# Following the guide found at this page
	# http://programmingarehard.com/2014/03/17/behat-and-selenium-in-vagrant.html

	echo "\r\nUpdating system ...\r\n"
	sudo apt-get update


	# Create folder to place selenium in