For those who visit this site and those follow this site in a reader. I just want to let you know that I know that my blog is a bit slow at the moment. It’s partly because a plugin that I activated Google XML Sitemaps. I’m going to see how this one plugin works over the course of the next 10 to 14 days, if not sooner. Please leave a comment if this blog is really slow.
Peter
One thing that I hate not doing is not keeping up with php since I took a class about php about 4 to 5 yrs ago. its just that I’ve “built” a user login system but I have trouble figuring out a few things in regards doing functions and etc. Or doing a combination of things like using the if statement, and so forth, to make sure that I would have the current user that’s logged in would show on the profile page or on the links that I have set up on the pages that i have. regardless of the “userid” that I’ve used the only “user” that is shown is the “userid” that I have in the first row of the user database. and I’m coming out and admit that I should have paid more attention in this one php class that I took. I was planning to take it again as a “refresher” but its not being offered again this fall.
I just don’t want to use some freely available login system that could be found on the Internet, nor I don’t want to be fully dependent on the use of the stuff that’s found in Dreamweaver. I would be willing to use a little – well very little php stuff that built into Dreamweaver.
What I want to do after figuring out the login/userid issue is figuring out how to work the scripts that I would try to set up for a gallery on my family pet site. Granted there are premade galleries out there on the web, but I just don’t want to use them, cause that i found them constricting to use especially when uploading files while using gallery.
Though one problem that I see at the moment is when selecting a picture and viewing it on a “detail” page. I would like use the following url style when doing the site: view.php?picture=filename.jpg/detail.php?picture=filename.jpg. though the name of the specific page doesn’t matter at the moment. though it will when I start working on the php code at some point this summer.
Though, another project that I’m thinking of doing is cataloging all of my mothers books. she has a good size collection of books that should be cataloged. but this point the problem is that how to set up each dbase, what I’m trying to say is that in each dbase I currently planning to set up as id, name, link (to other dbase). I know I would need to use the join query when entering and displaying stuff. I would name the book catalog dbases as the following: authors, title or books, and for each series of books i might set up a specific dbase dedicated for them. I might set a dbase up for star trek, dune, and cook books but don’t know about the last one.
I would also like to do similar “projects” in regards to cataloging movies, cd collections, etc. I know I could use something like Excel, Filemaker to keep things organized. Both along with php have pros and cons in using them in every day settings, but I just like to use php over the other 2 products.
Though I could get someone to build all of the related pages and the related code, but what would be the point of learning php even more if got someone to the coding for me. but knowing my luck that my end up happening in my case at some point. then would have things set up where I could modify or tweak the code for some weird reason in the future.
back to the user login problem that I’m having, all I really need is to have a function loop(s) of various combinations, as I’ve said above but the problem that I’m having is actually writing the said functions. i know i could try varying combination’s but I get easily frustrated about writing them. since I don’t have access to the net home I’m unable to work well into the night for only so far, without wanting to break something.
I know I could look at similar login, catalog stuff around the Internet to see what I could on what I’m doing but its like comparing apples to oranges in my case. i basically would need to build what I want from scratch, which is a basic, integrated gallery into my sites, with the look of each of my sites.
Depending on how things go with the “login” system I may or may not post an update when I get things worked out.
After taking a break from classes at the local University for the last 18 or so months (give or take a several months), I think I’m ready to start taking classes again. I don’t know if it would be this fall or the following Spring of 2010, though I would prefer this coming fall.
I basically know what I want to do but the question that I’m facing is: Should I continue with Photojournalism? Or should I go with another degree?
I’m thinking of going with concentration in the Journalism Department at UAF that’s called “New Media.” Though I would like to do both, but then I could be pushing my luck about doing to much at the same time. If I do both concentrations at the same time, basically would be doing two things that I like doing – taking photographs and working on websites.
Another thing I am thinking of doing is take some language course’s that the University is offering in the fall. But the problem is that if I do that I would be adding maybe 6 months of course work to what I’m already planning to take. From what I worked out, I would be taking at least 15 credits for the next 2 years and classes during the summer months – not that I mind doing that – I just don’t want to do to much at once and on a consistent basis for the next 2 to 2 1/2 years. Then trying to work on top of studying which may or may not be a good thing, but I’m not sure at this moment, just need to see how things would go.
Continuing my education is it stands now is hold indefinitely till things are sorted out in regards to family and a few other things too.
Just want to let the people who follow this site that I would not be online as much since my dsl service got turned off at my home. Need to pay the phone bill to reactivate the service, so in the mean time I’m getting online at the library with my laptop. I’ll be trying to get online about 3 days a week during the mid day of each day.
later
Hello all – I’m just testing something out relating to the blog feeds to see if they are working or not.
Note: This may or may not be part 1 of a multi part post that I *may* be doing. At this time I don’t know if I would do more posts along this theme.
There are many things that I wanted to write down into words and such. Its just that I wasn’t able to make a coherent and/or cohesive post. One of the things that I’ve been doing recently is that of thinking of the last 2 years or so. Unfortunately, I’ve been stuck in a situation that I haven’t been able to get out off – major family issues. I won’t get into specifics and if I did things won’t be looking peachy keen for me.
Let me say that there are people “pulling” at from many different directions and “wanting” or “would like” me to do things their way. Regardless of what I think is a good way of doing things. For example, one person wants me, in a way, just up and move while the person that I’m staying with recovers with any kind of assistance and expects that the person that I’m helping just jump back into the swing of things with no problems of any kind. This person, from my point of view and from I could tell from the specific person, basically wants me to work 40+ hours, do all of the shopping, house cleaning, drive the person that I’m staying with to and from a health care facility (which is a total time of 45 minutes to drive and back to the house each way). Also, pay ALL of the bills that this other person has and not including my own bills.
I could go on and complain about my family maybe in detail to some degree but I won’t. There are things that could be aired out but it probably be for the best that things shouldn’t be made known to a wider group of people.
After the events with my relative health and the last 2 yrs of getting back to a stable state of health. It has basically taken this long time to work out health problems that I won’t need to concentrate much or if at all on helping a lot around the house. Because of this I haven’t been able to what I want when I want to do whatever I felt like and had to put off my education for a little while.
As it is, it looks like that I’m going to have to and need to put going back to school till the fall of 2009. Not that I mind doing this, giving the way things have been going for the last year, in regards to money and family reasons.
Though I thought of transferring to another University shortly after a couple of years at the local University. It just so happens that I wanted/needed and should re-take some math classes and maybe 1 or 2 other remedial classes before I even think of going to another University. But then I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to study in. I haven’t been taking classes for the last year and I thought I haven’t been taking classes for the 2 yrs, and its weird that I thought of that just now. I was thinking of taking some classes this coming term, but I fell like that I’m not just ready to start taking classes again. In part because of my family life and another reason is that I’m not comfortable going back to school just yet. I know that I shouldn’t wait too long to take classes again and hopefully I won’t have to.
Once things settle down with my family life and things – hopefully – get worked out between various people and sorted, it might be then when I would go back to school and with my life. After taking classes for 6 years or so, I mostly know what I want to do with my life – generally speaking. I haven’t laid out any specific plans for the rest of life but I won’t be in Alaska for a long time. But I do know thing is that I want and desire a “simpler” life, just don’t want things to get kayo tic on a consistent basis. If things get really complicated with my life and/or doing things, I just can’t stand being in this type of situations.
As I might have said in past posting that I don’t like to get into specifics on this blog, is that I don’t want to deal with any legal issues. Which is why I try to say things in the most general since here on this site.
later….
Update: This site won’t be going offline at the end of the month – however – sometime over the next 6 months where it might actually happen as to when I wouldn’t know when.
For those who follow this blog… that this blog and the rest of my site might go down temporally towards the end of the month. Let me say that its been really tight this month in regards to funds – hopefully things will improve by the end of the month.
On a another topic…
Even though I want or wanted to write more post things, it’s just thing’s haven’t come together to form any cohesive posts as of late.
laters….
Over this last weekend the digital camera gave up on working basically I got it wet by the way of rain. It is and was a stupid thing to do and let it happen. Though its working to some degree, at this point in time I’m basically for a newer camera with a whole lot more features and such. The type of camera I would like to get will be said later in the post.
Basically what happened was that I walked around my family’s undeveloped property and took my Olympus camera with me to take some pictures that I might want to take. Didn’t find worth while stuff to take pictures of then before I started back to my family home, rain started to come down and I wasn’t able to cover the camera from the rain – so in turn it got wet. I didn’t do a good job cleaning off the water from the camera and so when I tried to take a picture on Saturday evening of the sun on some clouds during the sunset – that’s when I noticed the camera wasn’t turning on. At this point I was swearing at myself for getting the camera wet.
The camera that I have is an Olympus SP-510 UZ granted it may not be the better cameras to have after reading some reviews on the web. As it is I’ve been planning to get a much better Olympus model or one of the following cameras: Nikon, Canon, or Sony camera.
I’m not quite sure to what I’m looking for in a new camera at the moment. Though I want both 35mm SLR and a Digital SLR, I’m not sure which one to get first and that’s part of the problem that I’m having at the moment is choosing the type of camera that I want to use one a regular basis. When I do get both types of cameras I’m planning to get several lenses for each kind of camera. Like telescoping, mid range, and use a standard range of lenses or at least I think there is.
Though in planning in getting both types of cameras I’m planning to spend some serious money so it wouldn’t really be an issue when I would actually buy the cameras.
In the mean time, what I might do is to get a similar Olympus type camera for the interim basis entail I get a good quality digital and 35mm SLR.
But my problem is the researching part of the equation of the endeavor of getting a new camera. So for those who follow this blog or to anyone else to reads this blog – my question to you is: Do any of you know any site’s that have a good array of reviews of camera’s ?
Peter
P.S. I may post something when I would get a new camera whether if its for the interim basis or when I finally get a good quality Digital and 35mm SLR.
P.S.S. This post may be edited further at some point, don’t know for sure at the moment.
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