Guides, tutorials & career advice
Guides, tutorials, and career advice for breaking into martech and tech — from the CodingPhase team.
How to Become a Shopify Developer (The Honest Roadmap)
A real, no-fluff path to becoming a Shopify developer: the skills in order, a 1-3 month timeline, how to get hired, and what you'l...
How to Become a PHP Developer (And Why It's Still One of the Smartest Bets in Web Dev)
PHP isn't dead, it's running most of the web. Here's the honest roadmap to becoming a PHP developer, what you'll earn, and where t...
The Best Shopify Developer Tools (And What You Actually Need First)
A working Shopify dev's honest take on the tools worth your time, what to skip while you're learning, and the four-piece starter s...
The Best PHP Frameworks (and Which One Actually Gets You Hired)
Every PHP framework promises to be the one. Here's an honest breakdown of Laravel, Symfony, CodeIgniter, and the rest, ranked by w...
Best CMS Platforms to Learn (If You Want a Web Job)
A student asked me which CMS to learn first. The honest answer isn't the trendiest one. Here's what actually gets you hired for we...
Zapier vs Make: Which Automation Tool to Learn
One student rebuilt the same automation in both tools and asked which one was worth learning for a career. Here's the honest head-...
Remote AI Automation Jobs
Remote AI automation jobs are real and they pay well, but they almost never show up when you search "AI automation job." Here are...
Is AI Automation a Good Career?
Everyone's scared AI is coming for their job. AI automation is the role that builds the thing instead of getting replaced by it. H...
How to Become an AI Automation Specialist
The realistic, no-degree path from zero to a job-ready AI automation specialist: what the job actually is, the skills to learn in...