I often watch video's from this channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/jsonmez It focusses on all the non-technical stuff like finding clients as a freelancer, how to learn a new programming language, become more productive etc.
Thanks everyone for the responses. It seems that forcing clients to use a particular ticket system is not a good idea.
I have now created a free account at Hubspot. Hubspot keeps track of all e-mails and calls I make to people and I can automatically add notes and tasks to each form of communication.
For example, I have taken over the Wordpress hosting and management of several existing websites. They pay me a fixed fee and from time to time I adjust some things for them.
And there also ongoing projects in development where people leave feedback.
One of the things I like really well about Laravel is that it integrates with modern front-end development tools and frameworks.
They have an excellent asset manager called Elixir that acts as a wrapper for Gulp. You can even use it without Laraval. In your gulpfile, you just have to require Elixir and tell it what are the source and output directories. It even has an option to automatically suffix a random hash to your app.js and style.css for cache busting.
In your template, you only have to include the style.css or app.js and it will auto inject the latest version like this: <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ elixir('css/all.css') }}"> will become <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/all-blabla.css">.
The Framework also has a lot of build in stuff to simplify connecting Vue.js components to your PHP backend.
Laravel is mostly built on the idea that everything is loosely coupled.
For example, in Yii2 (another popular php framework) everything is built around the Yii ORM and routing system. Laravel strictly separates all components.
Apart from these two things, there really aren't many benefits that make Laravel stand out. I have worked a lot with both the Yii platform and the Laravel platform and it's mostly a matter of preference.
Laravel also has an official stripped down derivative called Lumen. It's meant for building API's.
Damm RoR is nearly Laravel with a different syntax. Development and deployment is also very easy. I was always wary of RoR, because I read online that it's so good at simplifying and abstracting stuff, it can become a black box that is hard to debug.
However, apart from that, this is exactly what I sought. Thank you for making me reconsider Ruby :)
Django, started learning it in may and loved it so far. I have a lot of experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel and the Yii platform and NodeJS + React + Redux. So I wanted to broaden my skillset :)
Even banks can be victims of inefficacy or corruption due to too many middle men. Furthermore, they can also have disputes about ownership of loans, property or money. In my country, there is a bank that is actively embracing and supporting blockchain: https://www.abnamro.com/en/about-abnamro/innovation/blockcha...
I think your mindset is a symptom of imposter syndrome. This is a common problem for developers. It makes them think that they are unworthy of their rewards or that most of their achievements are insignificant or fraudulent.
I always use the "best practice" way in a project to generate translations. Most programming languages or frameworks have a translation practice or library that is widely used.
I always build my apps first in English. Often you can create an export of all strings that need to be translated. I translate them myself or send the file to a translation agency.