I spent a full day editing CSS code for work. I don’t know where I went wrong, but I spent nearly 4 hours trying to fix one line of code. I didn’t know which line was making everything stop working, so I re-wrote it line for line, letter by letter, and it just didn’t want to work. I was frustrated. I wanted to take my computer and toss it out of our warehouse door and just say good riddance to the programming and web development world and just taking a janitorial position at a porn palace somewhere. It definitely pays more, and the benefits are nice.

Then it hit me!

I missed a semi colon in line 48, and that was it. One stupid semi colon and the CSS finally worked!

I realized that I just wasted 4 hours of precious time by trying to fix a problem that I had created.

Then I wondered…why are some jobs saying that editor’s aren’t going to do? People that use editors like Dreamweaver and the likes, are sometimes easier to manage than to hand code things like I was attempting.

Yet my wage doesn’t reflect the hand coding…it reflects the “editor” mentality.

At the end of the day though, I felt alright. I felt quite good in fact. The natural high that I received when the CSS rel tag worked from inside the browser, calling forth a file that was in another folder with the style guide, made me so glad and maybe that’s the satisfaction I should be pushing forever at work. The satisfaction of knowing that things work, even if it does take me hours to figure out problematic semi colons!

For those of you that don’t understand the rigors of web development, consider this post one for the diehards.