Although I've been coding for a few years, I've always been sort of a newbie because I haven't really worked on one particular platform or technology over a long period of time. I have just picked up stuff by building things.

I built this site more than four years ago - http://stp.unipune.ernet.in/zsi/ (I also did the backend data entry pages, which are not online).

When I took up the project, all I knew was HTML. I learnt to implement LAMP from scratch on the job.

I deliberately put myself in a situation where I had no choice but to learn, the same way people really learn to swim - by diving in at the deep end.

I'm pleased to see that the website is still up and running.

I haven't quite kept up with the latest web development technologies or languages, mainly because I haven't got down to building anything fun for a while. I'm itching to start doing something again and when I do, I guess I'll pick up something new.

What project are you working on? If you are looking for someone to work with, I'd be interested (I'm based in the UK too).