I firmly believe that a great percentage of web development is about blind determination. Those moments when you without relent bash your head against code which insists on having one elusive error. In these times the usual crutches of loud music, coffee, nicotine and chocolate just do not cut through the agony of a parsing error.
Sometimes there is nothing you can do but stare at the code and breathe through the time. Of course, eventually with or without a bit of search engine help, you get through the blockage in your code. One of the greatest lessons to learn in any coding is to take these times for the temporary status they are. Once you resolve yourself to it only being short lived things often fall into place.
I remember as a child having the typical school report of "could do better if applied self". Must find that teacher and do nah nah hand signals at some point. The age old "try, try and try again, if at first you do not succeed whack it over the head…" really applies to coding of any sort. Perhaps, this should be taught in college and get the pupils to repetively bash their heads on brick walls as part of their assessment. The ones who do it for the longest will probably be PHP developers or something like that. With development if you can’t stand the headaches then do not bother.
