[mickeyben]

It was in 2006, I needed some cash to pay my student loans.

At the time I was all about C++, wasn't very good at it and couldn't find any part time job to continue my CS degree.

One of my contacts proposed me a freelance gig to rewrite the intranet of a big french corp. It was written in ASP.net 1.0 and only worked on IE. I didn't want to take the job but when they offered me 5,000$ I said yes without knowing what I was doing.

After some consulting with friends I went with PHP5, smarty and prototypejs. It took me a month of days and nights instead of the 15 days initially planned but it was a blast! PHP, javascript, HTML ... found all this new world way more funny and productive than C++,boost and wxWidgets/GTK.

Since then, I learned to plan things more carefully (especially when I don't know the tech) and never stopped coding and working for the web.