From: Phillip Gawlowski Date: 2007-04-07T06:12:47+09:00 Subject: Re: A few beginners questions Peter Slider wrote: > John, thanks for your words. > > Reckon this is possible in about 2/3 months with loads of daily > dedication? > The basics: Most likely, depending on your learning abilities. Mastery: Not. But don't be discouraged by this: Once you know the basics, you can do a lot already. Mastery, though, takes longer. It usually means that you know all your areas of expertise in and out, but doesn't describe your abilities to do the job at hand. And comes only with practice and actually writing code in this area. You probably should at databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle[0]) to your "things to learn" list, too. [0] you can get a free as in beer variant of Oracle 10g from oracle's website, called Oracle XE: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html -- Phillip "CynicalRyan" Gawlowski http://cynicalryan.110mb.com/ Rule of Open-Source Programming #7: Release early, release often. Clean compilation is optional.