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Have been a system engineer, switched to PHP developer(mainly backend). I am 31, wife and kid. I make about $45K a year in the netherlands. Really have no idea if that matches the salary of other php developers in my country with about the same experience, but im having a great time at the company i work for.

Your password will never be secure when you store it on someone else his disk or let someone else encrypt your password. Its not a matter of how, but when there will be a way to retreive those passwords by anything but you.

And its not just that, everything you use your passwords for these days, is stored on some sort of storage in a cloudy architecture. Scattered all over the world in thousands of datacenters. You probably are currently trusting thousands of people working over there, but you dont even know these guys. Terrible imho..

Being a senior developer is not just having a great skillset. You need to be able to manage your work in a way the business values it. You need to interact with all sorts of people in the company you work for and help other teammembers rwaching the same level as you.

Our senior developer is always thinking about the business value when estimates are made vs quality. He even does not do alot of softwae development, but is always asked to help out other developers, system engineers and even management to give advice.

To be able to do that in a professional way, your vision plus skillset makes you a senior imo. Not just the years of experience and amount of skills you have.

Depends on your goals and definition of good quality of life. I think there is no best place for a avarage developer. Every life is so unique, skills are so leveled per de developer and matching economics and jobs on these are very specific.

As a dutch man, i can tell you just my experience as a software developer that here in the big cities are enough places to get jobs. Daily mails from recruiters sesrching for new candidates to be places at all sorts of companies. Living here matched about the avarage income to live in a small home with wife and kid.

I mostly look for what needs to be managed and if any framework/package is available, i use it unless its company specific or complex and not able to fit in such premade applications. I do use alot of themes for admin stuff. Like icon packs, chart libs and templates so no time is wasted on gettig things pretty and user friendly.

Our reports department uses Qlikview, which accepts all sorts of data in any sort of format. Which is very easy to use after a few training sessions.

Thanks! When I finished the rebuild, I will be able to create and maintain some new features based on what users want. Will keep de the paid plans in mind! Maybe just a very small amount, it does not cost me that much to run the service.

What kind of users are they? > mostly people that search chat sites like "free chat sites without registration" and those that click links on chat link pages.

Do they chat about everything or is there a theme or geographical niche? > Dutch visitors, 99%. No theme, just a single chatbox, and another one for registered users. Mostly chatting about adult related stuff or searching for men/woman.

What kinds of ads are displaying through adsense? > anything, I took the advice that popped up in google adsense.

How long did it take you to get to 3k users? > took me a few years, but i spent just a few hours a week like half a year to get those monthly 3K.

Do you feel like it will be hard to get more? >Just figuring that out now.

Why did you throw up adsense at such low traffic? > Someone told me I could get $ for throwing adsense on my site and i was wondering how much that would be

Very nice, thanks for the feedback. To give it a bit more context.

The reason I'm not sharing the url is because the code is somewhat outdated and may be insecure. In my spare time I'm working on a new version which matches some of the recent security 'standards'. The website started as a project just for learning how to develop a basic website with interaction between users. So about seven years ago I tried becoming new instance of \Zuckerberg. I started chatting the website all over de chat-places. I added a twitter account, following (by hand :)) all those singles and lonely people out there hoping they follow back. Greeting them every day and helping other twitter addicts keeping their following list clean with new tools also presented within a backoffice on the same website.

My situation only allows me to work just a couple of hours a week on a side project. The reason I'm looking for some new ideas to monetize the project a bit more is because I want to buy a new house, like within a year or so. Just need a 100K in euros additionally to buy a nice place to give my son the full experience of life as much as possible in the way me and my wife dream about it. I can't just switch jobs, because the company I work for did alot for me. And I am a v ery loyal person when it comes to people/businesses helping me out with stuff.

Now, for the chat service, its more like a lonely-chat-service. About 100 visitors a day, saying "Hi, is there anyone around here?" or something like that. Then, the silence is killing them at which point they probably start clicking thos e ads :) So as I removed the usefull stuff from the website, people started clicking more on ads, to just get away.

When I read the feedback, I think I should just add some sort of feedback button or create a popup with a textarea in which they can add their dream they expected to get in by entering the website. And then start building them those dream s, for just a penny a day.

Tried that, but it is to distracting, i also dont get how people manage to work at a place where all sort of people work on different stuff. Sounds more like a silicon valley/hipster kind of thing to me, which i am not.

I also tried to do it at the office where i work, but you can imagine that you will not be working on your own projects

Same here, also having a 4-day work-week planning to run some sort of side-project. Actually all i do is fixing stuff of previous side-projects, setting op PoC's for new projects en creating a big pile of poo.

Besides that, dogs, cats and child need attention all day long, so sitting at home does not work at 1 day a week.

Now i am planning to give all that up, and just add the day to my work-week.

A full time job, without sideprojects, sounds more comfortable than a mess of private-work-life. It keeps your head spinning all day, not reaching the goals you imagined.

I am not able to take all day working on my own projects, so this seems like the only option to play safe and clear my head.

"LastPass strengthens the authentication hash with a random salt and 100,000 rounds of server-side PBKDF2-SHA256, in addition to the rounds performed client-side. This additional strengthening makes it difficult to attack the stolen hashes with any significant speed."

I wouldn't mention that if your data has just been compromised. Although it makes is hard to handle that data, it is more info about how the data is encrypt.

I have alot of idea's, but as a full-time developer, it's hard to get a team to trust and spread the word about them. Knowing there's a millionplus people ready to copy paste and invest a few dollars or a million or more. The funds i dont have.

So yes, i feel like im missing out, but more like not having a chance to miss out.

An Experience is a thing, same as saving is a thing you do. It just depends on where your goals at. That doesn't even have to be to become happy, sticking to your habits or do things as others say. If you like and feel enthousiastic about what others say, just do the same your own way.

There's the way to retire rich spending a life saving big, or living a life to retire with great menories. Some have the luck of both. Depends on the risks you are willing to take and the right decissions you make.