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Awesome PHP

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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). To learn these technologies you should use several in combination on on

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:

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

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Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

This configuration is not maintained anymore. You should think twice before using it, Breaking change and security issue will likely eventually happens as any abandonned project.

	#! /bin/sh
	### BEGIN INIT INFO
	# Provides: supervisord
	# Required-Start: $remote_fs
	# Required-Stop: $remote_fs
	# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
	# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
	# Short-Description: Example initscript
	# Description: This file should be used to construct scripts to be
	# placed in /etc/init.d.

	<?php

	namespace JStout\MainBundle\Session;

	use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\SessionStorage\NativeSessionStorage;

	/**
	* MemcacheSessionStorage.
	*/
	class MemcacheSessionStorage extends NativeSessionStorage

	<?php

	class DefaultController extends Controller
	{
	/**
	* Dashboard page.
	* @Permissions(perm="dashboard_view")
	* @Route("/", name="ITEDashboardBundle_index")
	* @Template()
	* @return array

	<?php

	use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
	use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection;

	/**
	* @ORM\Entity()
	* @ORM\Table(name="user")
	*/
	class User

	<?php
	// not so great:
	if ($blah) {
	$doSomething;
	} else {
	throw Exception();
	}

	// better:
	// be explict