If I were described as a programmer at all, it would be as a very low-level one. Back when I started with web development, people who could use HTML, CSS (well, that came later) and Javascript were called web programmers. There’s a great deal more to it these days, and I haven’t bothered to keep up with the times. I dabble in it. I can understand what most code can do and edit it, and have some very light PHP skills, but I pay a guru to do the real work. He can do anything, so I don’t have to.
<?
function readyToBeAProgrammer()
{
$stuff=$_URINALYSIS['test'];
if($stuff == THC)
{
return false;
}
else
{
return true;
}
// I’d rather be watching the History Channel
}
if(!readyToBeAProgrammer())
{
die(“Switch to coffee, man!”);
}
?>
These days I do sales, management, build out basic sites, and install and skin blogs, CMSs and other packages when clients need them. Nothing exotic, but it’s a living. Oh well, back to work.
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