Earlier this week we had a discussion in the PHPNL Slack chat about finding jobs and using recruiters for this purpose. Some people had used recruiters to find their job and were stating that they might not have found their current job without the recruiter. I disagreed, and eventually promised to blog about it to…
There are many people (myself included for a long time) that will work more and more when they have more stress. Whether it’s a deadline or simply too much work on your hands, you just start working longer, open your laptop when at home just to finish that one feature, skip lunch or ignore your…
Several of the jobs I’ve had in the past years I’ve come into partially based on my activity in the Open Source world. I’m not saying it’s *only* because my open source contributions, but in both cases it definitely had an impact in the whole process. I can point out some clear examples of why…
It has been an interesting journey so far. After my Ibuildings adventure I found a new job at UNET, a relatively small but very professional broadband ISP mostly aimed at the business market. While the work there was awesome and the team was one of the best I’ve so far been a part of, I…
The pool of PHP developers is big. There’s a lot of them out there. Quite a few of those are junior or medior developers. These have skills to offer and are usually not as expensive as seniors and architects. However, most companies for some reason are mainly looking for seniors and architects. For “PHP rock…
Here’s some Programmer’s Pride for you. As of today, I have been one of the main developers of a system that is used by more than 1 million users worldwide. Now, that is what I call cool. TomTom HOME is a desktop application that talks with the TomTom servers to fetch updates and information (using…
It’s been a while since my last post, at least for my usual posting frequency. I’ve not been idling however, I’ve actually been quite busy. First of all, I did something stupid, and lost all the data on my laptop. It sucks, and I felt very bad about it at first. I’ve lost quite a…
I know, I’ve been with Dutch Open Projects for only a few months, and already there’s new developments. I’ll still have my ties with Dutch Open Projects, but my contract will move to another company. One of the owners of Dutch Open Projects is taking the most successful project into a new company. As I’ve…
In just over a month time, after working for TomTom for exactly one year, I will be leaving the company. It’s not that I don’t like it there, on the contrary, I love it there. The work is great, the people are great. However, being away from home for about 12 hours each day is…