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[Epatron]

Please help me , I'm young website programmer (html,css,php)
And I suddenly got bored of programming websites, but somehow I really want to continue it and I don't want to be bored .. :3
Could you help me and give me ideas how to get rid of this boredom?
And have you ever suffered, if yes how did you recover? :D

Help me :[

[Vaielab]

I change of project, or at least of section.
If you do the same thing for too long, it's normal to sometime get bored. At my job, if I stock too long on the same thing, I change the section and most of the time it's enough.

Learn a new language
If you don't know flash, learn it, or maybe learn html5

Or do something that is almost impossible.
I'm currently working on a css only game, just like this one: Stu Nicholls | CSSplay | An amazing CSS puzzle
Make your own defi.

Get involved in helping other (guess why I'm here)

Or take a break, sometime break are good too, and you come back better.

[WingedPanther]

Changes you can make to shake things up:
1) learn a new language
2) start a new project on a completely different scale. If you normally do small ones, do something big. If you're used to doing something big, do something small.
3) do a different style of project. If you normally do PHP + form submissions, trying converting a site to pure AJAX instead of form submissions. Do a completely different layout. Try something with no JavaScript, or all JavaScript.
4) contribute to someone else's project. TiddlyWiki is a self-contained, single-page, JavaScript powered wiki. Try writing a plugin for it, or improving its efficiency, or just doing something cool with it. Or write a WordPress plugin, or a MediaWiki plugin, or ...

[Epatron]

Hey! Thanks for cool ideas! To new language , do you have any good one on your mind? ^^
Well I have some OOOLD experience of flash , but can't be arsed to download adobe flash again :3

[Vaielab]

Flash, actionscript, jquery (not a language but still...) postgresql insted of mysql, sqlite, asp.net, ruby on rail, jsp ...
All thoses could help you as a web programmer

[Epatron]

I got interested about Flash + AS agaain! :P

[WingedPanther]

For something really different, try Lisp or Haskell.

[Epatron]

Thanks for inspirational comments!
I was thinking to do something big, and learn AS again!
But hmm what would be that 'something big' ?
Well at school we must create company so i'll do netsites to companies but I'll keep you posted
~Ty!

[Vaielab]

Something big hum?
Create a direct competitor to chrome os, all in flash (since you want to learn AS) and have the exact same fonctions, plus some new fonctions...
Tell us how it's going :P