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Gaffen
8y

How I discovered I was a developer:

The company had hired a pair of computer science graduates and we had been commissioned to build a magento store. Weeks went buy with limited progress, and missing functionality was met with protestations from the devs about unreasonable demands.

At this time I had been taken on as a designer / casual front end developer (though the focus was on design). I knew HTML, CSS and some very limited php and js.

We were severely over deadline, and seeing the desperation on people's faces I suggested looking into it.

I read the magento docs, got an install up an running, configured an installed plugins, integrated the theme using the complex multilevelled XML/phtml architecture magento uses and even got some of the more complex js functionality working using JavaScript.

In two weeks.

I'm now the lead developer

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  • 1
    Just curious what happened to the first two guys?
  • 3
    @kong they had to be let go eventually - it was an uphill battle getting them to abandon layout tables!
  • 9
    I just realized that the way I wrote this made it sound like coming out...

    Mum, dad, sit down. I have something to tell you and it might be a bit of a shock...

    I'm... I'm a developer... I like messing around with computers.
  • 3
    I seriously hope my parents are not on devrant
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