Thank you Anna. I had never thought of this subject as ‘taboo’! Interesting. Perhaps it says a lot about the human condition? In computing if someone says they ‘know everything’ then they are not telling the truth. So as a software engineer I never claim to and don’t loose face if I say I don’t know how to do something, there is no shame rather a position to move forward and seek help for the benefit of solving the problem. Thus why should it be not the same with Moodle experts? Moodle is complex and in the same concept area of being to big to know everything. There is no shame only the realisation to seek help or go away and learn something new and get back to the client / person asking you for help.

Thank you Stuart. Software development is a creative problem solving challenge, it is what drives us to challenge ourselves, to think of new and alternative solutions that the client may not have considered. The key is understanding from the perspective of the client and not the developer.

I’m going to be honest here and say my biggest fear is JavaScript. It’s just the way it is, something about it just confuses me. I once read a book on it and thought ‘why is it doing this?’ and ‘why is the author already explaining “workarounds” to the language to do things?’. I’m much more comfortable with jQuery as it adds a layer of abstraction and appears to me as more Object Orientated and familiar. However as time progresses I am chipping away at that fear.