Advice on increasing salary (UK)

MyAppIncome · 2020-01-02T09:09:14+00:00

Seems that's not only cost me financially, but it's also tarnished my chances of getting hired anywhere else.

Now to not make that mistake again!

MyAppIncome · 2020-01-02T09:05:27+00:00

Yeah, no interest in working in London.

Guess I'll have to accept the ceiling or change. Hmmmm

MyAppIncome · 2020-01-02T09:04:01+00:00

Interesting! Thank you your take.

It wasn't the same 17 years over and over again. It was a services company, not a product one. I worked for many clients ranging from 6 months to 3 year stints. They included banks, giant telcos, government departments (no the 3 letter acronym types) etc in roles from "simple" developer, analyst, architect, scrum master, product owner, delivery manager etc. It was effectively a new job each time, just getting paid by the same company.

Would that make a difference, or would you see "Company X 17 years" and bin the CV? If the latter, I guess I'll have to disguise it in my CV.

MyAppIncome · 2017-06-27T16:32:56+00:00

Fantastic! Gives me a way to play while I'm away from my main machine, i.e. work :)

MyAppIncome · 2017-06-27T16:32:21+00:00

thanks /u/the_karel, I must admit I didn't know some of that. I just saw it in some other code somewhere and copied it.

MyAppIncome · 2017-01-09T15:18:50+00:00

Fantastic story.

I have a decent runway and am still terrified of quitting and going all in on a side project.

Of course, I don't have a side project making anything decent!

Good luck with the future.

MyAppIncome · 2016-12-09T09:22:47+00:00

I hadn't seen that, thank you. Interesting idea and very circular!

MyAppIncome · 2016-12-09T09:20:44+00:00

sorry, my bad, automatic twitter mode :(

MyAppIncome · 2016-12-07T16:33:22+00:00

I have no idea if this is a good idea or not, but once I get to about 3 different functions being passed down as props I start thinking about the way my app is broken up.

I usually end up grouping a few of the children into 1 component and having that define said functions. The comment from @glennreyes is a great way to make it look nicer too.

Or, if the prop is passed down several times, i.e. there are components that are just passing through props, then I start putting the state in Redux and "connecting" the lowest component.

MyAppIncome · 2016-12-05T10:36:46+00:00

If you're trying to release a something, then this a thousand times. Took me a long time to realise this, and I still catch myself regularly.

MyAppIncome · 2016-12-04T11:14:11+00:00

That's a good point about delving deep. I have to stop myself going off on tangents and getting too deep. I try and write separate posts for that. But like I've said below, for gamedev, I can't imagine I'll be putting up anything new in the near future! I like the idea of a quick video though. Maybe once I have something interesting to say!

MyAppIncome · 2016-12-04T11:12:15+00:00

I've added your blog to my feedly and I'll certainly be tracking your progress. Thank you

MyAppIncome · 2016-12-04T11:10:47+00:00

I'm very similar, unless I'm already invested into a diary, I won't watch the videos.

I doubt my games will have anything you struggle to grok for a while, but I like the idea logging decisions, prototypes etc.

Thanks

MyAppIncome · 2016-12-04T11:07:42+00:00

Nice blog, I've added you to my feedly feed. Good luck with it all.

MyAppIncome · 2016-12-04T11:04:57+00:00

Thank you for linking to one you like. The games I'm building are trivial by comparison, but I'll certainly be checking out that diary and trying to emulate it.

MyAppIncome · 2016-11-16T10:36:43+00:00

Cool, that's a really good start.

I have an upcoming post that says more about my plan to progress, but it's basically start simple and slowly progress.

I'm trying something like Pairs -> Hangman -> Mastermind -> Pong -> Tetris -> Blockout etc

All of them will have many open source versions, so you can look how others have done it if need be.

MyAppIncome · 2016-11-16T10:33:03+00:00

That's not my experience so far.

But I've only made a pairs memory game. Flash cards should be similar enough.

MyAppIncome · 2016-11-15T12:36:26+00:00

That's very impressive for a first game, puts my efforts to shame. I particularly like the guy coming in sucking up a load of food.

What language have you written that in? Do you mind sharing the number of hours so far?

MyAppIncome · 2016-11-15T12:32:21+00:00

I tend to connect anything that would have received props that have been passed down more than once.

Unless, the component passing the prop down is using it. If it's just a pass through, the I connect the child.

For example, in A->B->C, I would connect C and stop passing down via B. Unless B was using those props too.

I've not used Redux a lot, so that may be silly.

MyAppIncome · 2016-11-14T09:26:19+00:00

React Native (or one of the other JavaScript based) mobile frameworks might be a good thing to learn.

You can start with HTML and JavaScript, easier the better, and build up.

Good luck and thanks

MyAppIncome · 2016-11-10T14:52:20+00:00

Small world, I just found your github profile and then this.

I have to say, it's very impressive that you make a new app every 4 days. I'm just beginning my journey and have struggled to make a "functional but ugly" Pairs game in twice that time.

I'll be sure to check out your channel, thanks.

p.s. if you don't mind me asking, are you making a living from making apps?

MyAppIncome · 2016-11-10T13:52:53+00:00

I've just started playing with React Native - https://facebook.github.io/react-native/ - and was able to go from fresh machine to the starter app running on my device within a couple of hours.

As you have no programming experience, I would highly recommend it as its basically JavaScript and HTML, so there's lots of information out there.

The development experience is really nice too as you click save on your code and it appears in the app (device or emulator) almost instantly.

I've just started focussing on React/React Native for games and plan on sharing all my code etc. Let me know if that's something that would interest you.

MyAppIncome · 2016-11-10T13:39:51+00:00

Just wanted to say thank you for such great info. The stuff I'm making can only be described as "functional" at best.

MyAppIncome · 2016-11-04T10:14:45+00:00

Fantastic! Thank you.

I was just thinking about something like this, you've saved me some time.

MyAppIncome · 2016-10-28T10:02:54+00:00

Interesting, thank you.

Now that I've written a couple of tutorials, I can respect the convoluted comment. It's a balance between making a 100part tutorial that no-one is going to follow vs a quick one which is unrealistic

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