I'm glad you enjoyed the episode Christian - as you can probably tell, I love talking about programming, and since I no longer teach as part of my job, I don't get to do it very often anymore.

I think I missed out growing up just a little later than you did. When I started buying computer magazines, they didn't come with programs to type, they came with floppy disks to just install. That meant that programming was total and utter voodoo to me until I started in university. It would have been nice to have those skills while I had hours and hours of time to kill during those long childhood school holidays!

Also, don't be too hard on yourself, PHP programming is still programming :)

I know I have quite strong negative opinions about PHP, but you don't judge a site or an app by the language it was written in any more than you judge the quality of a table by the tools it was crafted with!