May 2nd, 2008
Admin2008 - In which I try my hand at learning development
I completed my 5 sessions at Admin2008 yesterday - plus I worked the Meet the Experts on Wednesday night. I am exhausted. Several of us went for beverages last night, and then I decided to attend sessions today - so I can learn things. We all have 'stretch goals' when we set work goals, so for mine today, I decided to attend Julian Robichaux's session "How'd the Do That?" in which he shows how the ND8 templates work - by deconstructing them.
I'm an admin and it's been years since I made any claim to knowing how to develop. As a matter of fact I will say up front, any time that I am really bad at it. On about slide 23, Julian said, "Create a three-pane frameset in your target database, and if you don't know how to do that, by the time the presentation is halfway over, your head will be on fire."
He's on slide 53 and my head is on fire. I'm still trying to create a 3 pane frameset. Everybody else is asking questions and JUlian is answering them and they all seem to understand. Where am I? They might as well be speaking Klingon. Wait - they're developers - they ARE speaking Klingon! This is a humbling experience.
Julian is going to do a sample now - its pretty - I'm working on a 3 pane frameset. Why did I ever try to do this?
Wow - Julian is smart - possibly useful - in spite of being a developer. We can keep him.
