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Coding Amnesia
Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at 08:57 pm
A private “offline” blog that uses one of my old recycled layout just to have something working is one thing. To finally decide to turn parts of the blog public and needing to actually create a presentable layout and code it up is another thing. The question: is it possible to forget how to code websites? HELL YES.
I’m sitting here staring at Expression Engine‘s control panel with them templates and tags… and it’s seriously one big WTF to me right now. Yes, it’s a newer version than the one I last used but I can’t even use that as my excuse because the foundation really is still the same. I tried hopping over to the CP at Colorfilter.net to look at what I did and it’s an even bigger WTF because I did some complicated stuff for that site, especially at the backend. My brain is all muddled but if I were to translate it, it’d be along the lines of How the fuck did I do all that?! and that’s seriously pretty damn depressing. Now I’m wondering what I should do. Do I even have the time to go figuring everything out again? Learn that whole foreign language of CSS, XHTML, PHP, and even EE’s tags all over again?
Ugh. Kill meh. This is what happens when I slink off the online world, neglect my websites, and also turn down all freelance website projects that came my way during the last… has it been almost 2 years? It’s making me wonder if I should crawl back into my internet hole and stay dead online.
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