That saddens me. I've never done anything serious on the web, but I'm building a project for the first time now and I've been procrastinating a lot by learning the best ways to do everything. The fact that so many people just do a half-assed job and stay employed, while I've been out of work so long (hence the aforementioned project, actually, since I'm hoping to use it as leverage to find someone willing to give me cash bi-weekly).. like I said, it saddens me.
Amen brother. I've worked at a place where our 'deployment script' logged into each of our production servers and ran svn up in working copies. This company handled thousands of financial transactions every day.
At my current company we have a decent sysadmin, so things are a bit more sensible (a combination of svn export, running tests, then an rsync to our production box.)
Don't be saddened, be angry. When you do start doing stuff on the web, do it properly so other people don't have to eventually maintain the nightmare you might have created!
