Growing as a dev

This project was idealized to help new web professionals to plan how to grow professionally followed by higher level mentor.

Step one: be a Trainee

• Have a mentor
• Create tasks to follow on a task manager (Trello or Nextcloud Deck) with 3 columns: to do, doing done.
• Share the task list with your mentor
• Create a personal blog on GitHub pages containing only text describing step by step of your experience to create your personal GitHub pages
  • Objective: know git
• Put link of your LinkedIn and your GitHub profile on your personal blog
• Put your photo and your mini-bio on your blog
• Implement a contact page containing your email
• Enjoy an active developer comunity and participate in some events
• Write a post review on your blog about the conmunity event you went to

Step two: be a Padawan

• Implement a form with fields: name, subject and description on section contact of your blog
• Create a web application on Heroku to receive posts from your contact form and forward this data to your email.
• Implement validation to submitted data of your web application
• Integrate your web application using Telegram API to forward the received messages of your contact form to your Telegram account.
• Change the web application to save the posted data in a database
• Implement a page showing the posts of contact form

Step three: be a full developer

• Implement authentication page to view the list of posts
• Participate at least one developer community event per month
• Write review of all events on your blog and share the link on social networks
• Implement JavaScript validation on contact form
• Rewrite your blog using a backend template engine
• Rewrite the web service using packages to Telegram, email, validating data,...
• Write a post talking about your experience on rewriting your blog
• Implement unit tests on your service (heroku application)
• Implement funcional tests on your blog and in all flow of adminstrative features
• Rewrite your blog using a framework and write a post talking about how to make a bootstrap application with the used framework
• Write posts on your blog where each post talk about a design pattern, talk about at least 5 design patterns
• Create a readme file on your blog repository describing about how to create a new blog like to your

Step four: be a Jedi

• Give a talk about what you want
• Present at least 3 tech talks per year
• Solve issues and submit pull request to improve a project on GitHub
• Implement some javascript and css framework on your blog
• Implement continuous integration on your blog with at least unit tests, coverage reports and sintaxe check
• Enable continuous integration to be performed on your project every pull request to your blog
• Implement continuous delivery on your blog whenever the continuous integration pass and you click in a button to make the deploy
• Put badges with status of continus integration of your blog on README.md file of repository
• Write test to core of PHP
• Help to translate the PHP manual