Oh I hope it didn't seem like I was incompetent in PHP, far from it. Just that every project I get is Drupal based and I want to branch out. All I can put on my resume is Drupal, Drupal, and more Drupal! I worked with it for 1.5 years. Built about twenty custom modules. Installed memcache a dozen or so times. Wrote different nodes from scratch and have figured out the Views/Panels/Taxonomy CF. Just that I don't want to do it anymore, it is tiring and there are better ways to do it. I was graced with the ability to work with CakePHP for two weeks and was the happiest developer in the world cause it was OOP based and made building a functioning site from scratch easy, the the clients with Drupal all reared their ugly head and that was the end of CakePHP for me.
-Anthony On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Brent Baisley <brentt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congrats, you have job security! > > One rarely learns all there is to know about a piece of software. > Drupal is written in PHP, why not learn PHP? Write some plugins or > even submit code for inclusion into Drupal. > > Knowing Drupal isn't going to qualify you for other projects, only > Drupal projects. Knowing PHP will qualify you for much more. > > I'm actually in the opposite role you are, I know PHP and am getting > pushed in Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla. > > Brent Baisley > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Anthony Wlodarski<ant92...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have been lucky/unfortunate to have acquired quite a lot of knowledge > > about a certain CMS (Drupal). Now although I built a pretty cool website > > and have tackled a lot of the scalability issues I believe I have learned > > all that I can from the software and would like to move on. Currently I > am > > in a situation where our company keeps pulling in clients that are stuck > on > > Drupal as a buzzword but don't think about the future of their website > and > > the scalability of the CMS itself. What are some recommended tactics > when > > it comes to dealing with superiors and the displeasure of your current > > projects? Also how do you keep yourself from being pigeonholed into a > > project because you have a vast repository of knowledge on the matter? > > > > I feel that no matter how many times I discuss with my manager how much I > > want to move on and learn new technology I am going to be stuck in the > same > > situation forever, I see new projects roll in and hope they get assigned > to > > me but then I just see them float along and then I see a whole bunch of > > To-Do's with Drupal filling in my inbox. Is it time to find a new job? > > -- > > Anthony W. > > ant92...@gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > > > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > -- Anthony W. ant92...@gmail.com
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