Sometimes I
sit down and I forget how huge a
geek I am.
I guess that spending most of the past few years engaging in
graphic/
web design instead of programming led me to see myself as more of an "
Electronic Artist" than a
programming nerd (which I spent a good amount of my
early childhood being, with the help of my
father, who had learned
BASIC as part of his
Electrical Engineering degree sometime before
Compsci was offered at his college). And then, yesterday, I picked up
PHP Essentials, the book that had been sitting on my shelf for almost a year,
untouched since I bought it on an
improptu trip to
Border's..
So here I am again, with my keyboard and monitor turned 90 degrees on my desk, so that I have room to put down the book in front of the keyboard. Copying examples out of the book, trying this and that, spending more time
debugging than it took to write the
damn thing...
And the sort of
rush that I guess only some people can understand, when you can finally say: "I know how to write a script to handle a
feedback form!"...
And the same sort of
rush when you
realize how
excited you got over a really
simple thing to do.