Be Excellent To Each Other

So, a PHP forum I frequent is having a "who can write the best [application type] in sixty minutes". I've been practising - this took me just under 56 minutes, but I'm not sure I'm allowed to use custom frameworks.

Anyway, come and talk to me.

And fear the hideous name.

It works!

I don't know how you people get good at this shit.

I've dabbled with programming forever. BASIC on the speccy as a kid and then C and Java (I spent a year making a program that didn't teach you how to play guitar for my dissertation) at uni. HTML stuff for my website.

Thing is it's like when I was learning Spanish. Yeah, I can remember some words and know how to conjugate verbs and whatever but speaking it fluently doesn't even seem possible. Same with programming. I get the concepts and all that, but making actual programs that do things and work and stuff... fuck that.

This only confirms my worst suspicions of PHP hackers!

That they turn up for work?

...and I actually did a Computer Science degree too.

Gave that shit up pretty damn quick, and now I just tell the pople that can do that programming thing, that what they have done is crap. Much more enjoyable

I wish MyFinger was here to tell us all about that Java book that perplexed Mrs Meaty so.