I started to work on little PHP. I wanted to make a awfully long HTML table with PHP, which would change the contents on each window and change the colour of each window. I just might be using a wrong word here, I meant the thing that is between >td< in a table. It was just really fun to see how much contents you would get with a simple for statement with some arrays to help change the colour.
I think that the hardest part was just to write the normal things, because I still don’t feel too confident with the UK keyboard. It does have some advantages compared to the finnish keyboard, but because I don’t have the keys on my backbone it is just a little slow. I think that this will change in a while. The only hard thing really is the special characters that you get. What makes that so hard is just that I have a different set of pictures on my keyboard, so I have to learn to use these without looking at the keyboard at all. I can do this with the normal letter keys, but the special characters are still a little difficult.
I had also some other things to think about today. One of my really good friends from Finland said that he might come to visit Norwich on his own. This sounds just great. I’m only thinking what am I going to show him here. He has visited here once before with a group of my friends and I think that we kind of saw everything during that time. Of course visiting some of the same sites if a must, but I feel that there should be something new. I was just thinking that at least with restaurants I wouldn’t want to make that much changes. Nandos is just a great restaurant and I wouldn’t mind to visit it again. Being a host just raises so many questions. Just that you’d like to show him so good time, that he would like to come here again some time in the future.
I have used the whole morning listening to this one finnish metal band called Kotiteollisuus. I listened to their music a few years back in Finland, but I really haven’t listened too much of their music since then. Now I feel like I would have found their music again. It might be this interesting just today, but at least I’m really pleased with this at the moment.
I just feel a little stupid because I feel again that I should write something really useless here to get to the 500 words mark that I have set for myself. It isn’t just that easy to write something if you don’t have a good idea for what you are going to write. This should give some points to book authors in my mind. I know that they have some idea on what they are going to write, but it just isn’t that easy to do.
Now I have passed the mark for 500 words. Writing just feels more fun after that point because you don’t have really anything where you have to get to. But still it has to be 500 words, otherwise these blog posts would be just like 100 or maybe 150 words. They might be easier to read, but they wouldn’t really give me this kind of experience on writing. I’m not saying that I haven’t written text before, but writing over 500 words on a single occasion is something that you don’t really do that often if you don’t set this kind of goals for yourself. You just know that your hardest critique comes from yourself.
I will present a table that will include the five word of the day words here tomorrow, just wait for that.
Just listening to Megadeths Symphony of Destruction. This is just a great song and I think that many people would like it if they just gave the song a chance. That just brought to my mind that I had problems with knowing the difference between chance and change. I do understand what the difference is with the meaning, but just trying to write something quickly those two are too much alike. I confused them twice on one CV and that is quite bad. The song is still playing and I got to say that it is just rocking so much.
I’m just thinking how many words I have written in the past two days. The post from yesterday contained 1000 words and that just felt great and todays post does already have about 750 words, so that would suggest that the 500 words is not that much. I know that if I would turn that amount up to 1000 words it might lover the quality of the text significantly more. 750 words might just be okay, but I don’t really know should I do that yet. I’m thinking that I could add the amount of words at some point, but I don’t know should I do it just yet. If I would do this I wouldn’t most likely want to do the writing all at one go. 1000 words is still quite a lot, that is like 500 plus 500. It would sound just mathematically stupid to add the amount of words that you should have by 100% straight away.
Just another thing that I did yesterday was modified my local MAMP service. I tried to get my sites out using HTTPS, but that didn’t just work perfectly. I just had to copy my backup files on top of the modified files and then this was working just fine again. I didn’t really know that PHP programs should get their HTTPS from the server and not have them build into the program itself (please don’t complain about expressing this in this way). PHP is one of the most interesting technologies out there at the moment and I think that I would really enjoy learning it a little mssore. Something like understanding the difference between include and require is a good start, but there is a long way to go from that point. I personally user Netbeans to write PHP. I know that many people have complaints about this choice, but I haven’t run into any problems just yet.
This post has now passed the mark of 1000 words. While that is great, I don’t know if I should be that happy about it. I can write and I did make this post in few parts, so in no place did I really write those 1000 words at once. I think it is still a good thing, I’ll just leave it there, because I know I could make the whole thing sound like something that isn’t really impressive at all.