As a developer...

1. you have to understand people that dont know how to explain their necessities.
2. you have to imagine what clients really need.
3. you have to deal with people who think they know how to do something because they read it in a blog / saw it at a conference / a friend told them.
4. you should try not to hurt (their) feelings.
5. you have to be flexible.
6. you have to integrate code / modules / libraries that are not written by you, but you have tu trust them as if they were.
7. you constantly need to learn the ultimate technologies.
8. you have to deal with problems arising during development within the same deadline (or release crap).
9. you should quit finger-pointing!
10. you have to focus on really important things (for whom? the client, your boss, the team, the contractor).
11. you have to be willing to share your knowledge and teach people.
12. you have to surround yourself with people who know more than you.
13. you have to be humble but not stupid.
14. you have to be intelligent in discussions (they are good).
15. you have to predict how the product will evolve and reflect that in your code (have told you we are magicians?).
16. you have to predict how much time you need to learn a specific technology.
17. you have to accept bugs, and deal with them.
18. you have to accept your mistakes, and deal with them.
19. you have to understand that programming languages are not girlfriends, so don't marry one.
20. you are part of a team, so ask for advice & help.
21. you have to be humble (yes, twice).
22. DRY.
23. you should realize you are a nerd; deal with that too.
24. you should be proactive, not reactive.
25. you have to measure everything (backend, middleware, frontend, network), even though you didn't do it.
26. you should know that there are times to be creative and times to be effective - creative efficiency is not the same that Efficient creativity.
27. you have to keep yourself motivated.
28. you have to estimate stuff that you dont know how to do.
29. you have to keep your eyes in the goal.

30. you have to kick ass.

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thanks to @yo_gero

How much i hate/love "php" (or any other language)

After reading a bunch of blog posts about how much people love or hate php / like or don't like php design (here, here, here, here), i start thinking that this happens to everybody with any language and dependes of "how much you kick ass" in that language.

When you start with any (new) language, usually, that relationship starts with a lot of love to give and receive... you start doing amazing stuff, and everything is like wonderland. But at some point in your discovery, you hit the "real shit":

welcome to the real world!!

time pass and bam! you are not a rookie anymore, you want to do your stuff the right way and your lovely language is not with you. You found really ugly things in your lovely language, and you start feeling...

full of hate!!!

But think about it.. you are an expert now, you have the knowledge, you have the expertise, you can show the community the light!.. so go and do it, HELP your lovely language, stop complaining...

So this is my opinion, you start hating it when you kick ass.. period! and thats cool!

I love php and i really hate php, and im willing to see its next iteration too.