I've been trying to be a developer for 12 years now and I've been paid for being a developer for 8 years and I still don't consider myself a real developer in t

I've been trying to be a developer for 12 years now and I've been paid for being a developer for 8 years and I still don't consider myself a real developer in the programming sense of the word. I have no college degree. I develop web applications for the most part and I'm almost never solving any unsolved problem but putting together Frankenstein applications and late at night screaming "IT'S ALIVE!" when I can run them without an error for the first time. I figure one day I'll wake up and finally think I've made it, that I'm what I always thought a developer was and then I'll realized that there is still more to be done. But if you must put a mark on it, a good developer can ship his product or piece of code, so you have a great background, open up your IDE of choice and start coding, eventually you'll get something you are ready to ship and then after you ship it keep fixing it because it won't be done until you say it is done but getting it out there is important.