[jtbigwoo]

Here's the funny thing about learning to program vs. hiring a developer. I politely decline offers to work on ideas that my non-programmer friends come up with. However, if one of those friends came to me and asked to learn PHP, I'd happily spending a few evenings helping them out. It's a difference that very few "idea guys" seem to understand.

[invalidOrTaken]

This a thousand times. It's also the perfect thing to remind you that you're not being at all "ungenerous."

[giardini]

"Helping them out" with PHP? With few exceptions, teaching a non-programmer to write production code takes years.