I was the only one working on it. I can't remember the exact timeline, but I imagine it took me a pretty long time. PHP was a recent phenomenon, so I taught it to myself as well as rudimentary HTML and CSS. I also used some very basic MySQL. I didn't even learn about indexes and foreign keys until several years later. :)
I remember the experience solidifying that I didn't want to do programming for a living. That I instead wanted to focus on sysadmin (now called Ops). But employers kept finding dev work for me to do once they caught wind. And through a previous employer, I kept picking up dev side projects for extra money. Until I eventually decided if I was going to keep doing it, I had to figure out how to make it not such a brain-frying experience. Today, 19 years later, (as part of a great team) I love it and I don't want to do anything else.
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Sadly, I've ran into this same issue a few times.. some even recently.
This is amazing. Were you the only one working on the rewrite? Did you use that experience to springboard you into other development jobs?
I was the only one working on it. I can't remember the exact timeline, but I imagine it took me a pretty long time. PHP was a recent phenomenon, so I taught it to myself as well as rudimentary HTML and CSS. I also used some very basic MySQL. I didn't even learn about indexes and foreign keys until several years later. :)
I remember the experience solidifying that I didn't want to do programming for a living. That I instead wanted to focus on sysadmin (now called Ops). But employers kept finding dev work for me to do once they caught wind. And through a previous employer, I kept picking up dev side projects for extra money. Until I eventually decided if I was going to keep doing it, I had to figure out how to make it not such a brain-frying experience. Today, 19 years later, (as part of a great team) I love it and I don't want to do anything else.