Aeditive | Software Engineer | Hamburg, Germany | Full Time | ONSITE | https://aeditive.de
We build robotic 3D printing solutions for manufacturing concrete elements.
I quit at 23 and now at 32 i still have the occasional dream of buying cigarettes. Although in the last couple of years the dreams changed. Now I realize that i no longer smoke, but start smoking again in the dream.
I guess deep down in my subconscious I still fear failing.
What I mean by brilliant developer is someone who comes up with new paradigm shifting ideas that influence not just PHP development but other languages as well. I have been part of the PHP community for a very long time and I have read a huge amount of books/articles/blogs on PHP development. And I can't recall something that really impressed me.
Most of my projects in the last 10 years have been PHP based. I still think it has to change. There are much nicer alternatives (like Python). The reason PHP is still so common is the low learning curve. This also attracts bad programmers who create abominations someone else has to work with.
Some changes are more related to the runtime environment, like the whole configuration mess that the article mentions.
I also think the PHP community lacks brilliant developers. There are many okay and even good developers. But most PHP applications nowadays look at Java and the abundance of design patterns that often don't make sense in a web environment where application lifetime is usually a few years not decades. Look at Zend Framework. It can do anything. But you need to write so much boilerplate code that all the flexibility a scripting language offers is lost.
The PHP community needs to figure out what it wants to be. If I want to use something that is very verbose I will use Java. If I want to move fast I will use Ruby or Python. At the moment PHP seems to be somewhere in between.
As long as nothing fundamental changes I will only use PHP when getting paid. For anything I do for fun I will use other languages.
Two years ago I was in a similar situation. I had 6 weeks to find a fully furnished apartment in Munich from 800km away. For me the response rate for furnished apartments was 100%, although some simply said the apartment has been rented out already.
I also turned to crawling. I regularly crawled IS24's furnished apartment section and put new entries into a Google Fusion Table. That way I could filter on fields and see the apartments on a map at the same time. This wasn't automated as much as the original poster's solution. But my main requirement was that the apartment be near a subway station of a line that stops at my place of work, which is not that easy to automate.
After about a week I found an apartment that was rented out by the owner directly (none of that agent fee nonsense). I was the first to contact the guy - a few minutes after it was posted. I had to decide if I take it the same day. Based only on pictures... It was a good deal. Colleagues of mine were paying MUCH MORE and got MUCH LESS.
There's a cool video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HL8diusK4
We are using Rust for most critical components and Python/TypeScript for user interfaces.
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