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femkes_follies) wrote2010-04-14 09:41 am
femkes_follies) wrote2010-04-14 09:41 am
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This morning's entertainment....
I showed John my website, and the current error-message therein, just to see if he had any suggestions. He's fairly tech-savvy, though not currently up on web design. Still, sometimes another set of eyes are handy.
He rubbed his chin, stared at it for a few and said, "I know what you need to do."
"Really?" says I.
"Yep. Get your Dad interested and have HIM debug it for you."
ROFL
And actually, not entirely a notion without merit. Dad learned Fortran and COBOL in school, then taught himself PASCAL, Machine, Assembly, Basic (mostly to play with the C64), and C, C+, and C++. He was much more interested in the job security involved in remaining at the top of his tech skills than in getting into Middle Mgt and becoming Dilbert's Boss. Really, PHP shares quite a bit of similarity with C++. (He had a tutorial on his computer at one point that I made it about 1/2 way through). I ought to see if I can pique his techie-boy interest in Joomla!
He rubbed his chin, stared at it for a few and said, "I know what you need to do."
"Really?" says I.
"Yep. Get your Dad interested and have HIM debug it for you."
ROFL
And actually, not entirely a notion without merit. Dad learned Fortran and COBOL in school, then taught himself PASCAL, Machine, Assembly, Basic (mostly to play with the C64), and C, C+, and C++. He was much more interested in the job security involved in remaining at the top of his tech skills than in getting into Middle Mgt and becoming Dilbert's Boss. Really, PHP shares quite a bit of similarity with C++. (He had a tutorial on his computer at one point that I made it about 1/2 way through). I ought to see if I can pique his techie-boy interest in Joomla!