Earlier today I received an email that someone named 'xilviu' had just posted to a thread of mine over at the DevShed Forum. Wow! I haven't even visited that site in years. Out of curiosity, I clicked the link to the thread to see what was up.
Interestingly, the reply by 'xilviu' did not exist. I laster found that he had posted a new thread which asked the same question and stated he could not find the answer in older threads. Then the first solution he was offered would time out. Well yeah, thats why I didn't try it that way myself. But I digress.
Back in April, 2003 someone had asked for a way to calculate the number of weekdays (excluding weekends) between any two dates. After some clarification of what he wanted, I came up with a function that did just what he wanted. Hmm, not bad. I remember writing that. Although I would do a few things a little different today, that code looks pretty good. Certainly something worth pointing to, to highlight my coding abilities.
That was probably when I was at the peek (the sharpest) in my PHP coding abilities. I would spend a few hours almost every day browsing the forum looking for questions to answer and people to help. I hardly ever asked a question. That is basically how I learned to program. At first I just read the problems and solutions that others had, then as I got more comfortable with what I was doing, I began to answer some of the more simple questions. As time went by, I started answering more and more difficult questions and even providing people with various little code snippets.
According to my profile, I was an active member for a little over two years, from December 4th, 2002 to March 4th, 2004. (Hey, whats up with both dates being on the 4th? Weird.) One could see my progression, and occasional regression by reviewing all my posts. Interestingly, of the 207 posts I made within that two year period, I only started 6 threads. Of those six, only two were in the PHP forum and only one was a question. Guess I can figure stuff out on my own.
Which begs the question: Why can't I figure out the answer to the question I recently posted on the Wordpress Forum? And why has no one offered an answer? Maybe the problem is that it is imposable to do what I'm trying, which occurred to me when I asked, but then someone who is in the know should state as much so the issue can be closed and I can move on to other things. Is that too much to ask?
