Web Work
PhP
“I can"t code PhP.”
That is what I said, wrongly it turned out, when offered a job building a publishing system for a client. Most of my career I had worked with asp and my default state was to shy away from any other language.
As my Nan would have said though, “Shy bairns get nowt” and so I looked into the language and looked for differences. There are differences in semantics — len() vs .length — but most everything else worked very similarly to asp, and to JavaScript.
And so I jumped in offering discounted rate initially to get some experience working in the language and then making great use of XML and XSLT.
In 2010 I finished a series of websites for JLA of Sowerby Bridge all built on a custom written, hand coded PhP content management system.
“Oh yeah, I can code PhP.”