Green Flashes All Fall Down

When I was young I wrote in PHP

Photos of youth. Someone else, thankfully.

If only I think ... I think it is over a century, but a few years ago, like when 56k modems were still the norm, and the internet connection I was getting cross-eyed (no, not blind, filthy, just squint: with an eye to the screen and a ' watch ...) I had made a site that was now lost forever carelessly extended use of scripts in PHP written by myself, experimenting and learning on the field as-you-do .
type that I had read the magazines existence of this language and it seemed very cool, I had downloaded and installed an Apache server and I did my tests locally, I'd take the big book very big red pocket money and I enjoyed spending months as a hedgehog in a blender for each page load, which was unsuccessful and suffered for each puntoevirgola genuinely forgotten to look for any syntax errors in pages and pages of code, including , features, quotes and quotes ... And little
Plan my site had not only the dynamic image gallery that loads from the folder and laid out on multiple pages, but the control panel with password and the ability to post new articles, new reviews, new images, new links, and then the guestbook, quotes in the loop, and I do not remember what else.

All written from scratch.

from me. Without

databases and the free servers that I used to load does not support them but because okay but a bit self-taught 'me I still love , and then down to text files to be written and read.
certainly was not anything particularly robust, indeed, but it worked , cristosanto, and I had done .

All this to say that these days I happened to go back to having to do with PHP, and I discovered that in the meantime, the nerd appeal to the magic of server-side scripting remained intact , while it is changed the language, which is advanced version with many new features and a more object oriented . And have I changed, that even if the language had remained intact I can not remember a damn about anything, and I find it hard even to modify the script ready, I all seem longer and more complicated than necessary.

From these ruminations I have drawn some conclusions, I'm going to list soon:

• a mess I'm sorry to have lost those files, which are no longer online but not offline more nemmanco: "The rabbit hole" ; RIP
• the thrill of writing code from scratch is infinite compared to find the jelly is ready, but you must do it and have the time to learn
• once had much more leisure time than now
• nostalgia rogue
• in other words: I'm getting old

I'm going to get drunk, the first glass is dedicated to PHP lost, the second that you have read and shared my thoughts : that your code always shine the light of the absence of Error and Warning that the Refresh be reconciled and that the joy of the pernicious computer hack always accompany you. Long life and prosperity to you, amen.