Projects
Project 1
I decided to create a blog from scratch. With the help from CodeGrrl, I was able to accomplish just that. The functionality is all finished. Next will come the creation of a theme and some more pages to go with the site. I’m not sure if I will be working on it a whole lot though since it takes a lot of time and Wordpress is pretty amazing. This blog just has the bare minimums:
Public Pages
- A page to configure the blog title, tagline, copyright, MySQL connection, number of blog posts to display per page
- A database creation page to be used only once which creates a table for the blog, comments, and categories
- A page to display all posts with pagination, comments, categories list, date
- A page for single entries and comment form as well as listing of the comments posted
- A page for processing comments and email notification
- A page for displaying posts of one category
Private
- A page for posting new entries
- An edit entries menu page
- A page for editing single entries
- A categories page for adding and editing categories
- A page for logging out of admin session
The good thing about starting from scratch is it allows lots of customizations and personal preferences and it’s a good learning experience. I don’t know why but coding and programming is pretty fun yet tedious.
Project 2
Also I’m working on a design wiki for industrial design. It’s mostly created to display a quick reference about different design companies as well as artists and designers.
Project 3
I really really want to have a wider knowledge base. It’s been frustrating that I don’t remember most of what I read for very long, but Interpreter of Maladies is inspirational. One of the characters reads the newspaper from front to back all the time to become well cultured. The Internet is a great source for information, thus I want to read news articles at least 1 hr everyday. Probably more. And then I’ll write about what I read.
Project 4
I’ve also been wanting to improve my eye sight for quite a while. It’s just that I have these periods where I forget about it. It’s hard to consistently work at it. But I’m hoping that writing about it and reminding myself daily will help.
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It’s impressive that you managed to create your own blogging platform. Knowing exactly what makes up your software must be a great learning experience, indeed.
I’ve been trying to improve my eye sight too — or rather to prevent it from deteriorating, but it’s a pain to remember to do eye exercises!
I am repeatedly dumbfounded by the fact that in a world as brilliant and intelligent as ours, that so few individuals seem to pay attention to invaluable options which are readily available to them to enhance their personal wellness. It seems that a bulk of people are more interested in a quick fix in the form of a MD visit and precriptions than in managing their own wellness process, and doing so in a way that is natural, predictable, and sustainable. That is what makes me appreciate endeavors like yours to educate and prompt individuals to activity. I hope that through these endeavors, and others, that awareness increases quickly and the population at large returns to a mind-set of individualized wellness that doesn’t depend on specialists and drugs.