This forum is going to kill so much of my time it isn't funny.
 

I mean hey, I have almost all the answers. I've been programming for 14 years now. And I have a problem where I can't help but help others out.

Must...leave...now...before...it...sucks...me...in
--WetWired

You're that old, huh? :p

How old?

Old enough to have been around when an XT was fast? Yes
--WetWired

Well you said you've been programming for 14 years, so that makes you sound kinda old. :p ;)

If I told you that I had been programing long before high school would that put things in perspective?

Actually I think it's more like 13 years, but it doesn't make much difference.

Yeah, I know that it makes me sound older than I am. :]
--WetWired

Yeah, I guess. What kind of programming were you doing before high school?

BASIC, TPascal, x86 assembly.

Going into a C++ course in high school, my rule was if I couldn't do it in C, do it in inline assembly. :]:]

I spent a lot of time making programs in BASIC until someone gave me TPascal and TASM
--WetWired

Sheesh, assembly before high school? That's pretty hardcore! :)

I didn't even start programming until my junior year in high school. It was a small school, and didn't have any programming courses, so I taught myself how to program on my TI-81! :eek:

It was a childhood dream to be able to program in straight binary.

When I learned assembly, I got real and figured out that it wasn't worth the effort to do binary when I could do assembly
--WetWired

What kind of sick monster are you!? :eek: ;)

I like the high-level stuff myself; the low-level stuff is too tedious for my tastes.

Then it might freak you out to learn that I'm a professional embedded systems programmer, and that I spend at least 30% of my time writing programs in PIC assembly (the PICs are RISK parts).

That's low level
--WetWired

I started programming in 5th grade (basic), then later html, java, and then SOME php

Okay Taco, now you've done it.

BASIC-2nd grade
WP Macro Scripting-6th grade
Turbo Pascal-8th grade
x86 Assembly-Summer before 9th grade
Casio calculator programming(forgotten)-9th grade
C++-10th grade
TI85 calculator programming-11th grade
TCL-12th grade
JavaScript-12th grade
PIC Assembly-in job
C-in job

So there you have it. I've been a programmer for almost as far back as I can remember.
--WetWired

Basic huh? That was SO long ago :)
Well, not really, it just feels like a decade ago :p
I still remember when I made a program that turned your screen pink, just to reboot your comp as soon as you hit one key after that :)

Congrats Wetwired. You just bought yourself a mod spot.

MWAHAHAHAHA I am so very evil.

Hey, I hope to be fluent in html. php, and possibly something else before High School :p (yeah right)

C'mon you don't know html - you asked me just last night how to align something ;)

Dunno about java.

lol yeah and SOMEONE imed me of how to remove a border from an image... lol which was quite easy =p

I figured it out before you helped!

lol, i told u how to fix it and you said "Stop confusing me" THEN 2 mins later u did EXACTLY what i said to both images >=o

I know html, and I didn't take any courses :D
Actually, PHP is more fun ^_^

I haven't ever taken any courses.

I'm including random books and guides in that ;)

No books, no guides :p

Yay! I get to feel so much more useful.

And I even know how to start conversation here ;)
--WetWired

So, know any php?

No, unfortunately not. If I could figure how to get it working on my Linux box, I might give it a try though.

Basicly, I have a machine that is dedicated to the purpose of running a phpBB for style development (and vB too, if the lite version can do styles), but I can't seem to get it to work. I have Red Hat Linux 6.x and can reinstall as many times as necessary (time permitting) to get to work.

You know anything about that?
--WetWired

Correct me if I sound like a moron but isn't most of phpBB styles just images? I know you have to edit some other files for the basic color scheme.. well I don't know :)

To get an idea of the scale of changes I'd like to make, go to www.realmofconfusion.com, register, and choose the style "Formhault Style Test" in your profile. Note that it hardly looks like the standard phpBB anymore (though it is still a style in progress). And if you think that putting the graphic behind everything was simple, think again. The templates were never designed to do anything like that.

Now do you see?
--WetWired

what is so grate about php no one knows it ? is that the cool thing about it learn java man