At work a colleague is frantically trying to finish a project he is working on in in PHP/MySQL via Dreamweaver. Every now and then he hits a problem at the limit of his PHP skill and asks for help. I don't really know PHP much, so I just use Perl foo and hope it works. So far my guesses from Perl and a bit of Googling have been more than sufficient.
His boss really should buy him a book or send him on a training course - he'd be much happier and productive then...
BTW: HAPPY NEW YEAR!