A scary thought is that it did not take up much thought to even come up with this list, lol
Thanks! Robert Bailey Famous for nothing www.tinetics.com -----Original Message----- From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:03 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: You know you're a web dev junkie when... (COMPILED LIST) You forgot the last one. You take the time to compile a list of " You know you're a web dev junkie when" from the afore mentioned thread! -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource Sacramento, CA -----Original Message----- From: Candace Cottrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 12:49 PM To: CF-Community Subject: You know you're a web dev junkie when... (COMPILED LIST) Ways you can tell you're a web dev junkie... Contributed by Candace: A night out for you is heading to Barnes and Noble to skim through Flash books. A day off consists on working on that cool web dev project you don't have time to do at work. You type in bad URL parameters to check that they have error handling. You keep looking for the Print Screen key on your camera. 95% percent of the books you read have a CD in the back. Fireworks are no longer the things they set off on July 4th. You refer to car insurance as vehicular exception handling. Your day is broken down into modules: the breakfast module, the sleep module, lunch and dinner modules, and the work module (the super). Contributed by Erika: When you look for a url at every single business you go into, whether it's a restaurant or liquor store ... Then go home and see if it's up to par. When you take your laptop on vacation so you can sit on the beach and work on that web dev project you don't usually have time for. When you take big, 5-inch thick books along to the park as light reading material. When you sit in a pub and strain your ears listening to listen to the table next to you talk rubbish about building web pages with Frontpage, all the while trying to not spit fluid through your nose from laughing. When you eye up the dude in the book store leafing through the DreamWeaver 4 books (yeah, old) and you have to constrain yourself from verbally acosting him and telling him, look, get with the times ... Contributed by Dan: You meet your husband at DevCon? :-) You spend a nice, warm, summer Saturday afternoon setting up your hot keys. Losing your spam filter is more serious than losing your wallet. Instead of looking in your closet and saying, "I want to wear my red shirt today." You think, "I want to wear my Pantone 032 shirt today." When the words "Cold Fusion" no longer mean a clean source of energy unless you think about it for a minute. You can't hear the song Dreamweaver without thinking of the Application. Contributed by Mark Smyth: When every single form you come across you submit blank, just to check if it has validation you have more mp3's than cd's Contributed by Jerry Johnson: You carry an ascii chart in your wallet. "In a nutshell" means one and only one thing. Looking through the soda section at the 7-11, it takes a few seconds to correctly read HIRES rootbeer. Thumbnail never refers to your hand. You've got more servers in your house than chairs. (5 servers, 2 desktops, 4 chairs - 2 of which are folding beach chairs.) Tax returns mean you can finally get your software versions up-to-date. It takes a significant mental shift to understand when your GF asks you to "find the keys." Or mentions garbage collection day. (*What the heck is she _talking_ about????*) You know the power went out due to your computer screen, not your clock or VCR blinking. Contributed by Rick: When sexual stability is achieved by doing Code in your head. When sexual stimulation is achieved by doing code in your head. When you install a T1 in your home. You "click" each time you leave a room. You speak in SQL statements: SELECT Name, Answer, Time FROM CoWorkers WHERE Name = 'Vaughn' AND Question = 'Are we going to lunch' Then he replies... ODBC Error: 12345 Unable to process request do to lack of funds. Please check the query and ask again. Then you're forced to reply SELECT CoWoGUID as CoGUID FROM CoworkerProfiles WHERE Name = 'Vaughn' UPDATE CoworkerProfiles SET Funds = '10.00' WHERE CoWoGUID = '#CoGUID#" And he replies... TRUE You can successfully shake hands with your Dial Up service by whistling into the phone. Contributed by Nick: When sorting through your postal mail, you "filter" the messages in different piles, and refer to the junk pile as spam. When you throw things away, you say it has been deleted. It takes you longer to figure out the name of a new computer than it does to set it up. You go through your daily tasks by referencing common tasks as function Ad Hoc tasks are avoided like the plague You refer to cold medicine as a bug fix When you read the newspaper you see HTML tags around formatted text. 4 Servers, 2 Laptops, 2 Desktops. 1 Couch, 1 recliner, 4 Kitchen Table Chairs Contributed by Matthew Small: When you have every single email you've ever received from the CF-Community (11743), CF-Talk (50204), CFDJ-List(19147), CF-Jobs(+talk) (1876), Carolina CFUG(2226), Charlotte-CFUG(231), and FlashNewbie(3559) lists. Contributed by Larry Lyons: You name your pets after computer parts or programming terms. For instance how many people have named their cats (or ferrets) Pixel? Contributed by Robert Bailey: You can't go to bed without checking your email first. You can't have your morning coffee unless you are reading your email and listening to live streams from MSNBC You beg your wife to leave the computer if she leaves you You print out your own source code to review as bathroom reading material :) Contributed by Ben Doom: You can mouse with your toes. I learned this one to check my email from bed in college. Which is another way you know...... You don't see anything unusual about the things discussed in this thread. You know I'm a web programmer because I complain that: The firewall between my apartment and the next doesn't have a DMZ setting. None of the objects on my desk have inheritable methods. Or when you feel the need to correct someone when they put a space in ColdFusion. :-) Cotributed by Ian Skinner: You have not one, but TWO Compaq racks in your home and you don't run any kind of business from there. Contributed by Jakob: Instead of asking for someone's phone number, you ask for their email address... Contributed by Philip: Or when you meet your wife at DevCon... Wait a minute <g> Contributed by Hatton: You've followed this thread copying entries into a text file to save for later You're subscribed to CF-Community after you took a job that doesn't require any web dev at all! You still have a development environemnt set up "just in case". Contributed by Ben Braver: You think that a "flasher" is someone who codes in public. Contributed by Mike: You actually say the word 'lol' instead of laffing :) Contributed by Erich Mansell: ...you start refering to your kids as child processes. ...you end your sentences with delimiter tags</p> ...you can't look at a web page without 'View Source' ing it. ...a coffee IV has crossed your mind. ...*yawn...3am already? ...just one more tweak and I'll go to bed. WDGuide Menmber: An requited love is the pile of Flash books you have stacked and ready to study. WDGuide Member: ...you're excited to leave work so you can go home and post updates to your family web site ...your friends and family can't understand a word you say because you talk in acronyms (ASP, CSS, LOL, IMHO, etc.) ...you know that Java and Beans have nothing to do with coffee (other than you need to drink a lot of it!) ...you wish they'd put a Search button on the TV remote control ...what's television? Candace K. 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