Week of September 4, 2017.

It’s truly hilarious to rediscover the handful of posts that exist here. I originally created this repo almost exactly three years ago. There have been a lot of posts going around about the importance of structure in your learning objectives,...

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New plan.

Still struggling with the attention span. Since most of my workday has to do with the strategy/management side, I now haven’t really worked with code in a couple of months.

I’m trying to fix this in two ways. 1) By...

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Lynda crash course.

TIL:

So after having that talk yesterday, I’m diving in 100% to PHP. I finally got myself an account on Lynda.com, and it’s way better than I expected. So far all of it is stuff I’m familiar with (which is...

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Running in one direction.

TIL:

Today I had a really great conversation with one of the developers at work. He basically got his start exactly like I did, so I picked his brain on how to proceed, and get better. He confirmed that I’ve...

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PHP win.

TIL:

Today, I successfully implemented custom fields in a Wordpress template, using PHP. I was pathetically beside myself. The first several times I reuploaded the functions file, I got the white screen of death. And finally there it was– the...

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Bash profile death.

TIL:

Today my comp froze, and when I restarted, none of my commands were available in the terminal. I’m not exactly sure what happened still, but somehow forcing the restart affected my .bash_profile. I googled until I found this...

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Up and running.

I know that the only way I’m going to get better is by writing stuff every day, and not being afraid to break things. People have told me that a thousand times. No one is stopping me but me. Breaking...

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