Haha, I think we've all done that

That makes a pleasant change to saying it'll take 2 days and the project manager says they've already told the client it'll be 2 hours.

Yeah I had similar, I've used navicat instead for a long time now. It's interface I find a lot nicer

With MySQL, not sure about Oracle, you can use 'set', and it makes the queries syntactically the same

I've lost count how many times I've inadvertantly plugged a usb into an Ethernet port

Haha, I get annoyed when people call me a web designer too :)

Somehow in nearly a decade of working with PHP I did not know this. Got to love the recursion :)

Synergy is pretty nice, but these days I just run a VM for other OS

Ouch, that's a painful thing to discover after 3 hours. Something you may want to investigate for preventing future breaches is suhosin - at work I set it up to scan files posted via PHP, and drop them if they contain PHP opening tags or various commands (I can't think of any legit reason for allowing PHP code to be in a post file upload).

Run some greps for sketchy code you find, most have commonalities

That's wrong on so many different levels

I recently used sololearn.com, it seems pretty good, although I've been a web developer for a long time now, so not really any new concepts in it, not sure how good it would be if you have less experience. The thing I found though is always write something yourself in a language to make it stick, e.g. querying a db or a web service

As kanduvisla says, focus on vanilla js, then a few commonly used libraries such as jquery, anything else you can learn for the particular job in hand - there's no possible way you could intimately know every js library and framework, but a good founding knowledge means you can pick them up quickly when you do need then

I've played with electron a bit, seems a nice way to do rapid development for desktop, and means the majority of any code written can be ported into phonegap.

@centralhez, absolutely we have a similar system built into our cms at work - I've recently been extending it so it can be nested infinitely. it's really just a case of using relational databases they way they're supposed to be.

I've used navicat for about 4 years - I've not looked back

I've recently started using krita as gimp kept messing up PSD layers for me. Sadly no support for PSD text layers.

always have an SSH connection open, I use Linux command line for it and had always been rock solid. last time I used putty it was a bit crap.

haha, yeah I will be. If I've missed one, I'll be back in square one again in no time

Yeah I had one back at uni, most pointless thing I've done. think they replaced it with another project the following year

recursive function are always fun :)

PMs as far away the developers as possible

also obsidian

yep, been there - had to quickly close the browser before it all fell over

*hides under the desk*

Not forgetting
if(condition):
endif;
For those people who have a special place reserved in hell

yup, and always seems to be stupidly simple when you eventually find it

haha, reminds me of a client who used to send emails with the whole content in the subject

A design agency we work with recently expected us to start work as soon as it's been approved, then expected to see something visually 2 weeks into a build which had 3 weeks of groundwork to do. our project manager should really manage their expectations better.

Back in my Uni exam I once had a written php exam on paper... one of the pointless things I've had to do