Pretty soon I'm going to re-write CD Baby from scratch.
CD Baby, including the storefront, backend intranet, members login area, and various cron scripts is made up of 91,345 lines of PHP code in 1105 files. And I did it all myself over the past 5 years.
6 years ago when I started CD Baby, I didn't know shit about programming. I just knew some basic HTML. The first version of the site was done in Microsoft FrontPage (how embarrassing! It worked hand-in-hand with the shopping cart software, though, so I had to.) When people would mail me CDs, I would open up a template in FrontPage, and cut-n-paste their info into the template, and upload their page.
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