Geek Speak - The Great Divide

"From here on out, I am afraid I will never understand what you do again."

This is what my wife said to me about 6 years ago, while I was trying to explain my project to her. As with most people discussing their jobs, I get quite excited when I am doing something challenging. So, when I didn't even get half way through my discussion, and I was cut off by such a startling and honest statement, I realized that I had come to a point in my life where my world must be divided into two. English | Geek.

Not only did it tell me to shut up, it told me that I needed to locate another person with whom I could discuss these things that excite me so. Someone that could appreciate the humor in knowing that PHP is a reciprocal acronym. (PHP = PHP Hypertext Preprocessor)

Through out my career, I have always been able to locate one person or another that could speak my language well enough, and wouldn't argue with me on something like "Schema". For those who are challenging me on that one, "Schema" is too a word! Ask MySQL, Oracle or MSSQL!

Anyway, I have finally reached a new point in my career. I now am trying to build some projects that many of my peers on the web claim to be impossible. And with that, I am teaching a few programmers with 'the faith' to do what I do.

I would like to share some basic knowledge about the different web languages I use most prevalently, and discuss with people some of the ups and downs to different approaches to programming methodologies and with any luck, connect with the next person who can share with me the ups and downs of speaking geek fluently.