minionslave

I read something along that lines that Microsoft is one of the most valuable public company in the world. Bigger than Google, Bigger than FB . Why do they never include it in FAANG?

I was making a presentation, showing the new feature I'm developing. Instead of opening the PDF with screenshots of UI progress and API documentation I'm writing, my updated resume became fully visible for the whole team of 20+ developers to see, for at least 5 seconds.

I have no idea what to do

Do I pretend like nothing happened? nobody has said anything yet. I hope no one was paying attention.

oh well! I just wanted to share with you guys.

Let's be honest with ourselves for a minute. We have a disdain for PHP, not because it's that terrible, but because too many people know it. The more people on the market, the cheaper our wages. So we move to something else, even if that something else if 10x harder to deploy.

We unknowingly restrict the supply of competent developers by constantly reinventing the wheel. Because once it becomes too popular, our wages go down.

Am I overthinking this, or is there some truth to this?

I am exposed to test-driven development, database, api driven development.

I am wondering if there are other methodologies in the wild.

Thank you

I want to become an expert at a specific technology but I'm wondering what's better...

Working on greenfield projects withe the latest tech or maintaining legacy products

For example should I learn and master ASP.net completely and find jobs there or should I learn the latest javascript framework and find jobs there.

Which path would give more satisfaction and job security and money?

I know it's a silly question but I'm curious what that community can come up with.

After graduating college, I was faced with the cold hard reality of life. Working in software is just like any other industry, it's not always the magical fairy land I was told.

I became aware of competition, micromanagement and unrealistic deadlines. I have made several mistakes due to my naïveté and being unaware of those things.

For those who have been working in the industry for a while. Is there anything I should watch out for if I want to succeed? Does working in the industry requires playing some office politics?

My Eureka moment was when I figured out what interfaces were for.

I never understood the difference between interfaces and abstract classes. I asked on online forums and stackoverflow the typical answer I got was: "An interface is a contract that you define... A class has to implement the methods defined in the interface for it to work."

"Why do I need to use a contract if I can can simply implement the call the methods directly? Why do I need that middle man". I was working on a small web api project with Nancy, MySQL lite was used initially, but, I wanted to use a database like MySQL or PostgreSQL. The small project I was working on to learn Nancy needed refactoring. So, I asked myself "What if I could swap database at will". That when all the concept of interfaces came together.

I could simply use an interface as a mediator, which mean defining methods inside an interface, as long as the code calling the database implements these methods, things will work fine.