Trial and error.

Taking an existing code base and playing with it to see what does what. Eventually learning enough to create basic programs. Eventually I wanted to make more complicated things so started reading documentation.

!rant

If you come across a site with glaring issues and nothing is being done about it should you as a web developer report the issues and if needed offer to fix said issues in the case of them self-managing the site?

Shit! The backups gone...

I was at Argos a few days back. After browsing I went over to one of the machines to order. Just as I was about to search for the item I required the program crashed... Bloody NullPointerException! I spent the next 20 minutes reading the error message working out what the issue was wishing I could access the codebase and fix it.

Has anyone else experienced this uncontrollable urge?

Finish all my on-going side projects that have been left to gather dust due to lack of time and resources...

They may not be any good however they are fun to work on when I can.

Started learning 8 years ago by simply reading source code and messing with it to see what does what. That progressed into modding then gradually overtime I picked up new languages to play with for fun.

Json host files of a whole server networks root server passwords under the webservers configs directory open to the public.