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by xiaoma 3804 days ago
A lot of people make a lot of money from writing terrible PHP applications that solve a particular business need. Sometimes it's shocking to me to be honest!
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I guess you've never heard of Sharepoint :)
Tell me, what's that space like? Know it's a thing, (intranet sites or some such?), but that's about it. Very curious about it, heard people make a lot in there.
I've heard of guys earning north of $150 per hour and the demand is quite high. It's pretty big in the corporate world, back in 2011 78% of Fortune 500 companies were using it. It's an Intranet/Document management platform and it collaborates with MS Office.
A lot of people make a lot of money from writing terrible applications that [some people claim] solve a particular business need. I used to be shocked, now I'm just sad ;-)

See also: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jan/55 [Full Disclosure: It essentially wins crypto vulnerability bingo! gilfether/phpcrypt]