Not technically a programming gig, but I accidentally wrote the Enterprise knowledge base for a Fortune 50 company while I as working overnight as a help desk t

Not technically a programming gig, but I accidentally wrote the Enterprise knowledge base for a Fortune 50 company while I as working overnight as a help desk technician. It was a good system, that later fared very well against other COTS packages from vendors like Microsoft, CA, Oracle, etc. As for how much I knew, the answer is VERY little. I wrote the app to teach myself programming, and the majority of it was in PHP & Perl (because those were the best documented languages at the time) -- and the system ran on RedHat with MySQL, on a spare desktop computer that previously belonged to the other night shift guy that had been fired. Eventually, all of IT adopted using the program, and I ended up on the team developing new features and performing maintenance of it, while integrating it with other core products within the company, like the incident tracking system.