I am a web developer living in Sheffield, UK who has mainly been developing websites in PHP.
My Career Timeline
- 1999 Taught myself HTML, CSS and ASP.
- 2000 Junior software developer.
- 2001 Taught myself javascript.
- 2004 Webmaster, taught myself PHP.
- 2006 Self-employed. Started creating my own CMS websites with OOP PHP from scratch.
Often building everything, sometimes working with a designer.
- 2014 First Git repo.
- 2016 First WordPress plugin.
- 2018 Started using Laravel instead of my own custom frameworks.
- 2020 Static websites with GatsbyJs/VueJs and got deeper into AWS DevOps.
- 2021 Python. More Symfony.
- 2022 Digging a lot deeper into javascript frameworks and NoSQL, including React, React Native, Node.js and MongoDB.