If there was a job where you could get paid for fantastic ideas that would be the one for me. However, it’s kind of expected that you are able to follow through on some of your ideas. I studied Media Production at University just before user generated content exploded on the internet rendering everything I learned obsolete. These days, if it aint of the web it ain’t worth the time of day. Knowing this I am aware that I have a large missing chunk in my knowledge. Programming.
I love the internet, serious love them. I love all this social networking nonce-sense, I love Twitter, Youtube, 8tracks and their ilk. I’ve even had ideas about what I’d like to see on the coming down the internet tubes. However I don’t have a blue clue about how any of these wonderful time wasting websites came to be. Hey, I can tweak a Blogger or Tumblr template as well as any eight year old but I want to know more.
A friend who works at the BBC pretty much summed it up by saying that in the next ten years everything will be delivered on the internet – hell, I’ve been saying that since the 90s myself. As a result I am going to make an effort at learning programming. Said friend pointed me in the direction of Ruby as a good place to start.
If I can get my head around that then I will step up into another one. No promises I’ll get that far but it’s time to give this one a go.
