Velox Letum

Programming around the internet is considered the “cool” thing to do. Everyone wants to do it, especially those wishing to establish a presence on the internet, unfortunately for us true coders, we are plagued by those who would have us code it for them and they to take the credit. This problem seems especially rampant on CodingForums.com, where daily the PHP forum gets posts such as:

…”you see i don’t want to make it because i am not very good at php unless it involves forms or reading and writing files. Anyone know where i could locate such a program and if not could someone please make one for me?”

Note that this user did not ask for an example to get started. He did not post that he could not find what he was looking for on Google. No, he asked someone to find one for him, or make one for him. Make one for him, not an example. I find myself wishing to click a nice, shiney ban button, preferably polished and ready for use.

I once coded an in depth example for one person (which worked flawlessly), and he replied back that he was getting errors. He posted the code and it appeared he had mauled the code implementing it into a page, took off my comment, and changed a few variable names (forgetting many). Once again, I find myself wishing for the shiney ban button.

Another person bids for jobs, then asks for help coding the project he receives. Yet another demanded we provide him with examples or he would contact the “FIB” for not following the “fredom of infomation thing”. Besides a ban button, I find myself wanting a brick.