There goes all that work getting an ASP.Net cert…
Posted on July 10, 2008 - Filed Under Work
So this week I found out that the project I was working on is being scraped for various reasons. As a result my options were either find a new job, or work on gaining a more in-depth knowledge of php.
Needless to say, I like paychecks so it wasn’t really a choice. Besides a developer is supposed to learn a new language every year right? .net first year of school, java second year, and php first year on the job. I’d say I’m keeping pace. It’s not too terrible as it is at least(mostly) php5 so beyond having to write javascript instead of letting asp.net magically do it, it’s not to different. Obviously frameworks aren’t as common and robust, but since it’s open source it’s seldom to hard to find what your looking for.
I’ve been lucky to find a good php tutorial site to get me back up to speed since all though I did take PGV, it’s been a while since then, and I did more AJAX then PHP in that project. The site gives very basic tutorials and the writer has a sense of humor which helps keep me focused. So over the next couple of weeks I’ll be working on picking up the PHP way of doing things.
So over the next month I’m going to be working with the other IT guys(all 3 of us…hopefully 4 soon) in getting this portal(ish) site up for a convention my company is going to on August 10th. So it’s got the motivation of knowing the more I get done, the more they get to show, and thus ideally the more customers they bring in and the more they can afford to pay me ;). It should be an interesting month and I know I’m going to need to make an effort to really sit down and get comfortable with PHP…So if you know any good PHP books and/or sites leave em in the comments. As I don’t know how much more ’simple’ stuff they will have left after the end of next week.
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Oh man that’s rough… PHP isnt really a big deal to learn, but they hired you as a .net developer and then completely changed things around, heh. Sounds like you already have enough experience to jump right in.
I was forced at work to learn some pretty crazy Javascript. I came in with basically zero experience and now all I want to do is play with javascript libraries. Its actually fun when youre using a library such as jQuery or Prototype to do your ajax and other fancy stuff.
Ya, it’s a little annoying, but I don’t mind learning php. It will force me into having to get more acquainted javascript…which I need to do anyway.