PHP Moronic Monday (07-09-2015)

I'm like always trying to create a super website to live from it, It started when I was on the university things were not good in first years so I started to learn php. I created a blog, then I created a rss scrapper, the idea was to put it online, let it copy and paste from other sites articles it was not ethic I now. It was online a few week on some free webhosting, then It was put down by the host provider because it used to much cpu or something. In that time I had fear to use my name on the DNS records.

Few months after I started to develop a sport betsite, I reused some components from the blog site it was okey but I needed more so I learned about wordpress and I developed as a plugin for it. I created some nice canvas graphics to show the court, I find nice teams logos, created some scrappers to get the data from sports pages to create the fixture and update match results. This time I used my name and I buy a domain, I uploaded this site to a premium host provider Things were okey, I send some invitations on a big web site using a bot. Some people registered, but for some reason, maybe I was not happy because the site it was not really successful or it was a bit slow to render canvas or I don't know so I just removed it.

Years later I just left the university, things were not working for me there. I spend a year or 2 doing nothing until for some reason I started to search for jobs on internet pages. Most of the jobs offers were not near to were I am and they were asking for experience on php frameworks, control version, OOP patterns. So I started to learn symfony, git, and read about oop patters, I should had picked laravel cause there are a more jobs offers for laravel than symfony here. I started creating a news site with Symfony, created the user register system, etc.

Few months later I started with a point of sale. It started as a symfony rest api using angularjs app as a client. I was not convinced about it so I removed the api rest and I started as a full symfony mvc app, using twig, user bundle for auth, so much easy to develop and more secure. I started to think in sell this program as a subscription based webpos or as a installation. I created a VPS, installed nginx php mysql etc, created 2 server blocks(virtual hosts) one for the web pos presentation, and another for the demo. When I get a new client I will add a new virtual host, a database and a webpos copy. if I need more performance I will increase the VPS plan.

So I'm in that stage were I will find a excuse to drop the project again. I should go to find some clients, but I'm thinking on move to a near place were there are jobs for php programmers, maybe get a tittle in programming on some university or just find a any job here in were I'm.

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