The John Morris Show

Do easy things WHEN they're easy. Breaking my back on a 10-foot stretch of trench when building my new house taught me this the hard way. Here's the story and the big lesson I learned. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I've always been told how smart I was. How "lucky" I was and how "easy" things would be for me because I was so smart. But, at 28 years old, I was broke with no real plan on how things were going to work out for me. It took a long night in a hotel 1,000 miles from home and my wife and kids wondering where their next meal was going to come from for me to finally get it through my thick skull that it didn't matter how smart I was.Here's the story and the hard lesson I learned about what it really takes to be successful... in life and as a developer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is the best way I know to take control of your freelance career and your clients. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

People vastly underestimate the technology they will or won't use. I mean I thought Twitter was dumb when I first saw it. Now, I spend plenty of time there. It's just how it goes. WordPress Gutenberg is no different. All these people saying they'll never use it WILL be soon enough. But, if you can spot these little incongruencies, you can predict where things are headed and get ahead of the curve. Create products and services. Out-compete those who drag their feet. And, position yourself for when everybody DOES finally show up. I think Gutenberg is one of those things. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For real. It isn't. When you lay your head down at night and think about all the things you want for your life right before you doze off… yeah… you dream about PHP 8 I’m sure. You see yourself chained to a desk, typing code. THAT’S what you really want outta life. No. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Yes, massive action. Yes, motivation, inspiration. Do what you love. ALL of that. But, none of that will actually happen until you eliminate the "productivity leeches" from your life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

People crack me up.I remember when I first showed my mom a smartphone. “What the hell do I need THAT for?” You should see her now. Getting her off Facebook is like trying to get a politician to quit lying.I remember when Twitter came out.“This is so stupid. Why would anyone care what I’m doing?”We see where that went.And yes, yes… I even remember when the internet came out.(Old jokes will get you BLOCKED! :D)There were people who said it’d never be a “thing”.People are so often horribly, awfully, terribly wrong about technology and what they will and won’t use. Like really, really bad.Enter WordPress Gutenberg. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The best freelancing tutorial Mehandi has seen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This game is cold. Clients will turn on you in a heartbeat. Never get to close. They can stab you in the back in a second... like this client did to me. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

That’d be the conventional wisdom. I only have my H.S. diploma. No college degree. Certainly no fancy-pants Master’s or doctorate. I’m just a lowly web developer building “boring” web sites for equally boring and uneducated people. To hear the know-it-alls tell it, anyway.But, as I sit here, on the land I own free and clear, looking at the house I’m building (and own free and clear), pondering all the student loan debt I DON’T have…I can’t help but think... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Don't just go in and ask. Have a plan. And, make sure your plan include these three things. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There are no secrets. There is no magic. The keys to success as a freelancer are boring, non-sexy and deadly effective... once you know them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"You don't need college degree to be a web developer because people with advance college degree create libraries so that people without college degree can get a job." That's the comment I just got on YouTube.

What is a full stack web developer?“A Full-Stack Web Developer is someone who is able to work on both the front-end and back-end portions of an application. Front-end generally refers to the portion of an application the user will see or interact with, and the back-end is the part of the application that handles the logic, database interactions, user authentication, server configuration, etc.” -- Daniel BorowskiIn this episode, I'll show you how to do that. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This is NOT a massive list of freelance sites. Instead, it's a 3-step process to grow as a freelancer and the freelancing websites to use to create that growth. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

There are the three things you'll need to do if you want to become a web developer, but don't want to get a degree. It's definitely possible, but you'll need to do more of the planning yourself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How to plan, start and grow a career in web development. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Grinding out those first few clients can be tough. But, once you DO get going, it can take off faster than you imagine. This is how to get over that hump and get your first few web development clients. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In my 14 years doing web development, working with developers from all over the world, I've noticed three tell-tale signs of professional level developers. Here's what they are. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When your first sit down to learn object-oriented programming in PHP, it easy to get confused with terms like encapsulation and polymorphism. And yes, those things are important, but they come down the line in terms of what to learn. Getting the concept of "object-oriented" is what comes FIRST. So, if you're new to OOP, this episode is meant to give you that base concept. Which, I believe, for a lot of developers will be a big "aha".PHP OOP course here: https://www.johnmorrisonline.com/oop See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.