2007-07-10 12:43:51.088493+02 by meuon 5 comments
You know you've been geeking too much when:
You are creating/updating complex HTML web pages (tables, css, images and/or javascript) served from MySQL via PHP, from a MySQL prompt. And it works.
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#Comment Re: made: 2007-07-14 08:11:24.119749+02 by: Shawn [edit history]
Not quite the same, but along similar lines, I still remember when I reached the point of having spent about a week coding a new application and it compiled/linked without errors the first try.
#Comment Re: made: 2007-07-10 23:51:25.639222+02 by: meuon
Eric, hard to believe, but it was not a full production system.. I've learned SOME lessons over the years.
#Comment Re: made: 2007-07-10 21:06:11.302964+02 by: spc476
We have a customer that uses osCommerce, and everytime he asks for a change, I find it easier to do from a MySQL prompt than use the so called “Administrator Panel.” I think that says enough about the usability of osCommerce.
Besides, you know you've been geeking too much when you write your own computer langauge to solve a one-shot problem.
#Comment Re: made: 2007-07-10 19:18:40.740388+02 by: Dan Lyke
Yeah, I was reading something recently about a "startup in a weekend" with some huge number of people who descended on a hotel and tried to build some sort of system (in Java...) before midnight on Sunday, and I thought "Meuon, Eric and me in some mix of PHP and Perl and we'd have time to go someplace nice on Sunday afternoon..."
Dan
#Comment Re: made: 2007-07-10 18:45:33.109586+02 by: ebwolf
You know your geeky when you are both impressed by meuon's abilities and frightened once you realize that was a live system...
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