Planet CakePHP

On mailing lists or in private mails I sometimes read statements like “I am sorry, but I am a newbie” or “Sorry for this newbie question”. And I always wonder why do those people apologize for not being proficient?
It is ok to be new and inexperienced with a framework/programming language/whatever. Everyone of us is from time to time in such a “newbie phase”. And this means you will ask “stupid” questions (of course after you have done your “homework”, i.e. searching on the internet, reading the documentation). It’s part of the learning process. And it’s nothing you have to apologize for.