I decided it was time to install PHP5 on my iBook yesterday. I had been debating whether or not to switch for a while as I like to keep my development environment and my host using the same version. At the moment my host is running PHP4 so now it is time to see if I can get PHP5 running here.
The main push for the move was a combination of me getting used to java with its very object-orientated goodness and my friend who kept telling me I should upgrade. Hopefully this will stop him nagging me and let me develop some object-oriented PHP.
I have grown. I am now 6 foot tall. Oh and this not swearing thing is really not working for me. That is all for today.
Lent is a strange time of year where we are all encouraged to give up something that means a lot to us for 40 days and 40 nights. This year I have decided to give up swearing and eating chocolate. I was going to just give up swearing but someone challenged me to also do chocolate and I am a sucker for a good challenge.
First we had to outline exactly is not allowed. We decided that swearing included both text based swearing and vocal swearing. This also includes using acronyms that contain swear words. Not eating chocolate includes chocolate drinks and anything even flavoured like chocolate. The next 40 days are going to be hard.
When you arrive at someone's home-page on the interweb you are supposed to easily be able to discover what the site is about, what you can expect from the site and where you should be looking next.
The problem with my home page is that there is too much on it, you can get lost and not know where to click. Over the next couple of days I am going to try and correct this problem. I will let you know when I am done.
In a slightly unrelated note I am making the finishing touches to my valentines widget and then I will release it in to the wild for everyone to play with.
What did you do for Valentines Day? I made a dashboard widget. The way I see it: if you are a carpenter, make a piece of furniture; if your a jeweller, make a ring; if your a programer, make a widget.
So I am now in the Apple store Southampton. We were the first ones to arive at the centre but were beaten to the front of the que in a manic run. The store is a lot smaller than I would have first thought but seems to have everything you would want.
One strange thing is that there are people walking around acting as tills. That is right they have credit card machines and bags to sell you things without you moving.
The Apple store Southampton opens to the public at 9:00 on Saturday so me and a few friends are going to get up bloody early and walk down in a bid to be one of the first people in the store. I have been awaiting this day for months and am glad that the shop is finally opening.
When I created the CMS for Mumblings it was supposed to be lightweight and temporary. It would enable me to share what is on my mind with anyone that wanted to listen. With the recent javascript additions it is fast turning in to something a lot more powerful than I had intended. It is becoming more permanent everyday. This leads me to the idea that maybe I should extend it before it is too late. The problem with extending is that it might take away the simplicity of the site that I am loving. Its always easy to add features however, its hard to implement them elegantly .
When reading the feeds that I subscribe to in my chosen feed reader* it struck me that it would be really useful to have a diff view when posts are updated. This is due to the fact that people make small typo's and when they correct them it appears to me as a whole new entry. Why would this be something that has not become common in our feed readers?
* This is enhanced with the stunning facelift that Jon Hicks gave it.
Ok so after doing some rather extensive debugging I have got my edit in place script to work seamlessly on IE6 (note to self: declare all variables with var). I cant test in IE7 yet as the computer labs at university don't have it, I assume it works though. Next on my list of things to do is get adding and deleting post's to work from within the month view. That might take a little longer though as I don't want it to get confused by the edit script. We will see how it goes.