About 9 years ago I was working in ad operations for the owners of vBulletin (they were a large internet publisher). I had just read a basic book on Java to use

About 9 years ago I was working in ad operations for the owners of vBulletin (they were a large internet publisher). I had just read a basic book on Java to use the Dart API to automate a bunch of tasks with the remnant waterfall. I'd been at "hello world" a few months prior. I had never used PHP aside from installing Wordpress. When I gave notice, I was asked if I'd like to work on vBulletin as an engineer. (Some good reading at https://vbtruth.com/category/company/vbulletin/ https://vbtruth.com/category/company/vbulletin/ )