I love to get into the nitty-gritty of programming code…
For those of you that have an idea for a website I suggest you learn how to program. I know its not for everyone, some people’s eyes gloss over when I start talking to them in technical terms. Just so you know there was a time not too long ago when I knew a big fat ZERO about programming.
However I made the conscious decision to learn programming. Especially since i had a web business idea. If you plan to run your own web company you are going to have to understand the technical aspects. There is no way around it. You may eventually have people taking care of the technical work for you but the worst thing is to go into a meeting with your programmers and not be able to have an intelligent discussion with them. And I truly believe alot of the value your web company brings to the marketplace is the creative use of available technology.
You can never learn everything when it comes to programming so you really have to pick and choose what you spend your time on. I learned HTML and how to build web applications using PHP, Cold Fusion and MySQl. I havent learned javascript, graphic design or more hardcore programming like C++. I am going to teach myself AJAX though because i see that as a powerful tool that can help WhoYouKnow.com be even more useful to its users…
I just thought of this topic because I am programming the code to insert information into the WhoYouKnow.com database as users sign up. I see it as a thrill and a challenge to get the code right and learn new things along the way instead of seeing it as boring and tedious.
ok back to programming…
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