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I agree. The company didn't know who they needed or even what they needed. When I was going through my notice period (3 months smh) they asked me to help find a replacement. In the 18 months I was there, I had built 2 PWA SPA's using latest angular w/ Ionic, Laravel API for the PWA's, Laravel CMS backend to manage the apps, 2 payment gateway integrations (Stripe - online and Square hardware based), firebase integration and a bunch of other little stuff. When I was writing the job spec, every competent individual I interviewed 1) asked for way more money, & 2) said off the get go that this wasn't a job for just an individual. Even had one dev agree to join at £40k and after the first day he left as he knew the salary wasn't even worth managing all of that by himself and the headache that would come with dealing with non technical managers . And now i'm in an agile environment with 100+ developers and when I compare, I just look back like wtf was I doing. There were days that it just become so much to bear but being forced into that position ultimately forced me to up my game. One day i'll start contracting too as I receive recruitment messages daily on linked in and the daily salary's are always tempting. But I feel that only once i've gained a few more years experience working and developing myself

Replying to this topic 2 years later for anyone who is in a similar position and happens to come across this. I took the £35k role (final offer was actually £33k). As people have stated, it was a very demanding role. Most nights were me going to bed at 3am, fixing bugs our HK office were waking up to. Most weekends I was working. I had the opportunity to fly out to several countries and enjoy luxury treatments during that time.. Travelled to Hong Kong on several occassions, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Monacco, Marbella. Was also very stressful as the CEO had no clue about technology, just knew she needed it to work for her business, and she was very demanding, expecting things to be done overnight, this was frustrating as hell, but just got on with it. It gave me the opportunity to interview & hire other junior developers and network quite a bit, with people from more the business side of things. Also met many celebs during my time there. I did 18 months in total there. Throughout that time, because I was in a position with a lot of pressure to make things happen, I was literally forced to use their time to develop my own skills and learn several new languages/frameworks, while working for them. When I eventually did hand in my resignation, I had gained so many skills and become much more valuable to recruiters. I now work in a FTSE 100 company and make a little under £50k/year as my base salary (with 30% annual bonus). All in all, the route I took may not be as convenient for somebody who maybe for example has a family and wouldn't be able to afford all that extra time/stress that came with that job, but as a new graduate I pretty much had all the time in the world and it was the best decision I could have taken. Hopefully if any other new graduates come across this thread, this could serve as a little motivation & advice.

I think you still don't understand. What's the difference from setting up a parameter in your URL to execute a module in your code? I never said write queries in the URL, the OP was looking for how to output different content via button filters. If the queries are pre-written, explain how injection attacks come into this?

No it doesn't. Because you are passing a key which determines what query is executed, you aren't passing a query through the URL.

w3schools is definitely a good resource for noobs who are just learning as it has a easy ui and you see things work immediately, obviously wouldn't recommend it for amateurs or anyone above that level though. but w3schools is literally a dummys guide to understanding basics. It wouldn't still on the top results on google today for the last near decade if people weren't actively benefiting from it Taken from W3fools:

Thanks for that, I starred your repo and will sift through it soon

Anytime bud

There's much more flexibility than just changing colours and pixels in variables. For example anyone who is simply just including bootstrap's grid.scss file is doing it wrong. Bootstrap's grid is built upon mixins, you don't have to include the grid sass files, you can just include the mixins (which don't generate any css) and build your own semantic layouts using the grid mixins, thus reducing the bloat. In my opinion, alot of bootstrap's code is code you will probably write anyway, I think it's an excellent tool - if you use it correctly - it's all down to the developer's approach on it.

I'm assuming you don't recommend it because of "how all bootstrap sites look the same" If not, please clarify. If so, I can tell you they will only look the same if you allow them too. Me personally, as soon as I start a project I always grab bootstrap, but I never simply just throw it in. I use SASS (used to use LESS), but I simply just include the only sass files that are completely crucial - instead of me reinventing the wheel - and that won't cause bloat. Then everything else is developed seperately.

Hi guys, long time lurker on these forums. But I have a really big situation on hands right now and I was hoping maybe somebody could help me or give me some insight on their own experiences. Basically about 5~ years ago, I made this post just a year before I was about to head off to University asking for ideas on what I should study: Thread is here: http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/topic/54340-going-to-uni/ Well shoutout to everybody in that thread that gave me advice, I ended up studying Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning and can now credit that on my CV alongside web development that I have continuously been involved in. So anyway, I graduate in September but school years over. So i've started applying for web development jobs as I didn't want to go into retail like some of my friends have done while they get search for their graduate job. Over the years i've been involved in quite a few projects which has allowed me to develop my experience and my CV further. I've also been working part time for a company in central london throughout my university life. Anyway, this week I applied for a few vacancies in web development roles. I got immediate responses and organised telephone interviews from alot of them. Monday & Tuesday I had 2 seperate face to face interviews. Today is Wednesday and they both got back to me this morning telling me that they would like to give me an offer for the job roles. The first one offered me £35,000 to be the developer of their growing company. The second one offered me £21,000 for a junior php developer role in their company. Now most would probably say go for the £35,000. But here's where I am conflicted. All my time spent working freelance for smaller companies has really just been me developing for them. I have really never been working in a team environment where I can learn and be reviewed on by senior/mid-weight developers. The £21k role offers this type of experience, where you can learn from others who have been in the industry much longer. The £35k role has a small team, but it will only be me developing, me making all the crucial decisions. It's a really nice laid back, family type of team as they're so small. But it will also mean that I would continuously have to teach myself. And also it means that there isn't really a chance of career progression as of right now. tl;dr So basically 22 year old, with no full time experience in the industry being offered more money a month than i've ever seen in my bank account at a single time lol.

Well it's not exactly a browser, it's a tool in a web browser

Normally you should have an idea of what the code you write is going to produce, but if you don't or are unsure you can simply test in devtools before you push to your code.

Quick, easy way would be to use the buttons as links to this same page, with query parameters. The query parameters determine what query should be executed. So a bs button could be.. <a href="http://example.com/?query=xxx" class="btn btn-primary">Link 1</a> Then grab the value of $_GET['query'] and use some condition statements & logical operators to determine which query is executed. e.g Quickest way really, you could make it more elegant with the use of ajax if you want

This is why you go for smaller hosts, who actually have to pay attention to their customer service

There could be numerous examples, so you should really get a live example up if you want help e.g might not be a border, could be an outline. could be an !important rule preventing you from simply overriding the border rule could be pseudo element showing the border might not be the element you think it is showing the border, might be another one those are a few examples off the top of my head, but i'm sure there are others Live example if you want help..

It is possible on the same page, just kill the script if its an ajax request. So.. if your php is at the top: <?php if(!empty($_POST["project"])) { $description = Trim(stripslashes($_POST["description"])); $array = $_POST["data"]; $subtotal = Trim(stripslashes($_POST["subtotal"])); $discount = Trim(stripslashes($_POST["discount"])); $total = Trim(stripslashes($_POST["total"])); $time = Trim(stripslashes($_POST["time"])); $Organisation = Trim(stripslashes($_POST["Organisation"])); $full = Trim(stripslashes($_POST["full"])); $first = Trim(stripslashes($_POST["first"])); $email = Trim(stripslashes($_POST["email"])); $n1 = "\r\n"; $n2 = "\r\n\r\n"; $message = "Hello"; // echo any data before here die(); // kill script so no output is returned. } ?> Note the die() must be within your if statement, so it knows to stop anything else being outputted if this is a POST request

Haven't looked into the site yet, but the concept sounds great, i'll be watching!

How about returning all the the tags as an array rather than just the 9, randomize the first 9 indexes, and choose them. e.g: $args = array( 'number' => 0, 'format' => 'array', 'echo' => false ); $cloud_tags = wp_tag_cloud($args); shuffle($cloud_tags); for($i = 0; $i < 9; $i++) : // echo tags $cloud_tags[$i]; endfor; Of course, you won't be using this as a widget and will have to echo it into your template I haven't tested at all, just from reference from link below, so it's possible you may have to check the output of the array, so you know how to handle it for the loop http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_tag_cloud

@@rallport, a bit blunt, but extremely true!

Thanks for your replies guys! I'm pretty sure they're different - in the sense that if you do a search on google.co.uk and google.com, majority of the time the rankings are going to be different, which is why I assumed if you were using the google.co.uk then it pretty much suggests you're in the uk and hence uk domains (or domains with a uk registrant) in the serps are more likely to be relevant to you. It makes sense especially when doing using something like adwords and you want to geo-target your ads. Also I agree, .uk does seem to be an unknown tld to those who aren't in the industry, so i'm gonna go with the .co.uk instead

Thanks for the reply. Why do you say the .co.uk is better than .uk? I had the impressions shorter domains were always better? I'm really more concerned, since the .uk tld is relatively new, if google.co.uk preferred it over other domains tld's such as .com as it does with the .co.uk?

Hi guys, i'm having a little trouble with one domain I have and seo. Basically I have a domain "example.com", our service is based in the UK - for this domain, i'm currently ranking on first page for my keywords, but i'm steadily around rank #8, which hasn't changed for a while. The only key difference I can see between me and my competitors is that they are all using a .co.uk TLD whereas i'm using a .com I already have the .co.uk domain, which I bought at the same time as the .com domain, would it make sense to make the .co.uk the primary domain and just redirect traffic from the .com to the .co.uk or the .uk (which would work better for seo the .co.uk or the .uk)? Also as all of the backlinks i've built are with the .com domain, will this affect my rankings?

window.location.replace("http://redirect-url.com"); in your ajax success callback

lol not likely

Is this for real? I can agree it's a smart idea with the whole 'sex sells' and whatnot, but the girls seem to look like they're just reading off a script and have no clue about anything they're talking about. What do you think?