I am a web application programmer, Search Engine Optimization Developer and all-around Geek.
Mental Ramblings of a Self-acknowledged Geek.
Posted: January 29, 2009
Variables? Like algebra?
Yep. Like algebra.
Just like in algebra, variables in PHP will substitute for a value. But a variable in programming is different from in math, because a variable doesn’t just stand for numbers. You can use a variable to stand for just about everything from numbers, to characters of the alphabet, strings of text, entire sets of different values, even other variables!
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Posted: January 28, 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain speaking.
Just wanted to let you know we may experience some turbulence as we come in for a landing on this new theme, just while we get all the bugs worked out.
Thank you.
Posted: January 27, 2009
PHP is a server-side, interpreted scripting language.
What does that mean? Well server-side means it runs the code on the web server, so your users don’t download the code and run it in their browser, like with JavaScript. This means that you’re not making your visitor’s computer do all the work, and it also means that your code is more secure, because your visitors don’t ever see the actual code, only what you send to their browser.
Interpreted means that it doesn’t have to be compiled into a program, like a windows .exe file, to run, but the web server interprets the code live as it comes to it.
A scripting language is really basically a ‘lite’ programming language.
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Posted: January 25, 2009
A lot of people around me have had questions about PHP lately. Seems like I’ve been doing a lot of PHP training. So I decided to begin posting PHP lessons for the beginner with no programming experience. I’m basically assuming no experience with writing functions, variables, or anything else that a lot of training takes for granted. All you’ll need to learn PHP is to have a familiarity with proper XHTML and CSS, though again you don’t need to be a super CSS guru supreme.
My next post will contain the first lesson, which will really be more of an introduction to PHP.
Posted: January 22, 2009
Just following up on my fanboy rant from yesterday. I saw a link to this article (on Twitter), David Pogue explains Twitter and its usefulness for Twittering skeptics.
Posted: January 22, 2009
I’ve been resistant. I will admit, I looked at all the Twitterites and scratched my head.
‘What’s the point?’ I wondered.
I thought it was overhyped. A single-purpose application that was being overutilized and obsessed over by people with waay too much time on their hands. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: January 20, 2009
I decided that I need a new place to dump all the coding and random thoughts in my head. I’ve already got a place for my interesting info and Discovery Channel-type stuff (though I know I need to make some changes. Right now it’s stuck partly because I was going to make a more formal project out of writing articles there and realized I had other things to do instead.) And I’ve of course got my movie reviews site, with a blog for my more cinema-centric scribery.
I really needed a place to geek out on more hackerly subjects, a geek blog with less formality. I already had the nomadhacker.com domain and hadn’t done anything with it yet…thus giving birth to this site. This is going to be more of a personal site/coding site about me and my internet-facing self.
I don’t have too much time to build a theme right away, so for now, embrace the default blue of WordPress and love it! And please leave comments.