Goals for today:
My goal for today is to assist Pacal in the classroom. I will let the majority of questions concerning technicalities be directed to Pacal. My main purpose to to help students complete their work, because I have heard that some of them are behind. I primarily will help with the grammar or the clarity of what they are trying to present. I want to start off by introducing my self and then trying to get invovled with their work. My goal is to get all their names by the end.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
April 22, 2009
I am so sorry I haven't been updating this. It really slipped my mind since I was so involved with other tasks.
Okay first things first, I have really got a hang of how blogs should be written since it IS really an art to be both informative and concise at the same time. Also pictures speak a thousand words, so a fusion of simple but specific wordage coupled with valuable thousand word elements(pictures) make for a great blog post, especially a post that displays instructions or an update. Google had many great posts and I read almost all of them in order to glean some blog writing style.
Also, I have come to the conclusion that Vista sucks, because I really cannot manipulate images in the way that I want in order to upload them onto the wiki posts. Vista has a snipping tool but this did not really help for the type of things that I was trying to do. So for the sake of time, I switched machines and was able to accomplish everything using a mac!
In the future when writing blog posts for more site updates, this is what I will do.
I have been spending the rest of my time with PHP coding. I purchased a really sweet PHP book that has helped we a lot with different things, and is more informative and detailed then W3 schools. I have also talked to Drew about the RSS feed problem. I think that I have a good idea what to do now, after much experimenting and working through it. He also did not know what to do at first so he recommended to me looking into simple xml, since PHP has three methods of parsing xml files. One of these three methods is through simple XML. I was trying explore the use of that method, but Drew had no time to first learn it himself and then explain it to me. SO once I am able to produce an un-formatted display of certainxml elements and the RSS feed, I will just give that code to Drew so he can help me format it. He has also an additional project, but as always, one step at a time!
Other than that, I have learned a lot of things about PHP unrelated to RSS feeding, but still I am positive will come in handy. I have made many detours but I finally will be able to solve this puzzle.
I will keep you posted faithful blog, until next time.
-Dan
Okay first things first, I have really got a hang of how blogs should be written since it IS really an art to be both informative and concise at the same time. Also pictures speak a thousand words, so a fusion of simple but specific wordage coupled with valuable thousand word elements(pictures) make for a great blog post, especially a post that displays instructions or an update. Google had many great posts and I read almost all of them in order to glean some blog writing style.
Also, I have come to the conclusion that Vista sucks, because I really cannot manipulate images in the way that I want in order to upload them onto the wiki posts. Vista has a snipping tool but this did not really help for the type of things that I was trying to do. So for the sake of time, I switched machines and was able to accomplish everything using a mac!
In the future when writing blog posts for more site updates, this is what I will do.
I have been spending the rest of my time with PHP coding. I purchased a really sweet PHP book that has helped we a lot with different things, and is more informative and detailed then W3 schools. I have also talked to Drew about the RSS feed problem. I think that I have a good idea what to do now, after much experimenting and working through it. He also did not know what to do at first so he recommended to me looking into simple xml, since PHP has three methods of parsing xml files. One of these three methods is through simple XML. I was trying explore the use of that method, but Drew had no time to first learn it himself and then explain it to me. SO once I am able to produce an un-formatted display of certainxml elements and the RSS feed, I will just give that code to Drew so he can help me format it. He has also an additional project, but as always, one step at a time!
Other than that, I have learned a lot of things about PHP unrelated to RSS feeding, but still I am positive will come in handy. I have made many detours but I finally will be able to solve this puzzle.
I will keep you posted faithful blog, until next time.
-Dan
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Wed April 8, 2009
Hey is me,
Haven't written in a long time, that's cuz I have been so engrossed with a particular problem. I know this may not be a good thing anymore, but I have been so focused on thsi one issue, that it has creeped into my thought life outside of work time. I really enjoy this which is why it is taking alot of out of me. I have gotten REALLY understand php now. I strongly feel that with any programming language, when start processing things outside of the actual programming, you are acutally then starting to learn.
My main problem is still trying to get a list of links to display on a simple page using php code, and these take me straight to the newest blog updates of the ita blog. Now I know this requires some sort of load method, that loads an xml file. But that is not as hard the implementing of the code in this particular situation. I literally have spent hours so far, reviewing the W3 schools reviews. Alot of the code is the same but as Java, but I am "stuck" so I am now willing to go get some help. If not from Drew then from my instructor in the comp sci department. But this is now a personal problem that I just need to personally solve, because it will irritate me for a long time lol.
In any case, I think that in the future and this WILL happen alot I expect to be "stuck" several times until I REALLY start to understand fully what I am doing. When I encounter these stuck places I think I will just use that time to do "other" things as in not just coding, in order to make sure other things get done, as in my other projects.
All in all, I felt quite unproductive on Saturday, since I spent a huge chunk of the day, surfing the Internet for possible solutions to this RSS feed mystery and reviewing php code concepts, foreach loops, and a very different array structure style of php when compared to java. I am also going to STOP comparing things to JAVA code because it seems to me that it is becoming counterproductive. I will just accept that fact that both ARE different, and will lean php for what it is.
When I was starting to get bored/frustrated, lol I did some javascript tutorials on w3, so not waste of a Saturday!
I need to get back to the ITA blog, permit updater post NEEDS to be written.
I'll keep you posted faithful blog.
Peace.
Haven't written in a long time, that's cuz I have been so engrossed with a particular problem. I know this may not be a good thing anymore, but I have been so focused on thsi one issue, that it has creeped into my thought life outside of work time. I really enjoy this which is why it is taking alot of out of me. I have gotten REALLY understand php now. I strongly feel that with any programming language, when start processing things outside of the actual programming, you are acutally then starting to learn.
My main problem is still trying to get a list of links to display on a simple page using php code, and these take me straight to the newest blog updates of the ita blog. Now I know this requires some sort of load method, that loads an xml file. But that is not as hard the implementing of the code in this particular situation. I literally have spent hours so far, reviewing the W3 schools reviews. Alot of the code is the same but as Java, but I am "stuck" so I am now willing to go get some help. If not from Drew then from my instructor in the comp sci department. But this is now a personal problem that I just need to personally solve, because it will irritate me for a long time lol.
In any case, I think that in the future and this WILL happen alot I expect to be "stuck" several times until I REALLY start to understand fully what I am doing. When I encounter these stuck places I think I will just use that time to do "other" things as in not just coding, in order to make sure other things get done, as in my other projects.
All in all, I felt quite unproductive on Saturday, since I spent a huge chunk of the day, surfing the Internet for possible solutions to this RSS feed mystery and reviewing php code concepts, foreach loops, and a very different array structure style of php when compared to java. I am also going to STOP comparing things to JAVA code because it seems to me that it is becoming counterproductive. I will just accept that fact that both ARE different, and will lean php for what it is.
When I was starting to get bored/frustrated, lol I did some javascript tutorials on w3, so not waste of a Saturday!
I need to get back to the ITA blog, permit updater post NEEDS to be written.
I'll keep you posted faithful blog.
Peace.
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