via @smashingmag, read the rest on the click-through. Amusing and informative :) I’ve been doing a lot of coding the last week, redesigning Messagefirst.com (which will hopefully launch sometime in August), and putting together phase 2 of the Interaction10 conference site. It’s pretty exciting the kinds of things I’m teaching myself to do lately…PHP/HTML/CSS are awesomely easy, and I’ve really felt that I must have learned something (at least conceptually) in all my programming classes at Drexel, even though it didn’t feel like much at the time. I also built a database for the Messagefirst site to handle some dynamic content…lots of fun, and once again I feel like I actually learned something in my classes (except MySQL JOINs…though luckily @schenkin is generally kind enough to write them for me :) Now I just need to get a bit more familiar with AJAXy techniques and libraries…JavaScript/etc. aren’t that complicated, but as usual it’s a matter of getting comfortable with the core vocabulary and syntax of the language. One thing that’s been bugging me lately about all these languages…comment syntax is different pretty much across the board. Always have to think twice before putting in comments (which I’m getting into a really good habit of doing).
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via @smashingmag, read the rest on the click-through. Amusing and informative :)

I’ve been doing a lot of coding the last week, redesigning Messagefirst.com (which will hopefully launch sometime in August), and putting together phase 2 of the Interaction10 conference site. It’s pretty exciting the kinds of things I’m teaching myself to do lately…PHP/HTML/CSS are awesomely easy, and I’ve really felt that I must have learned something (at least conceptually) in all my programming classes at Drexel, even though it didn’t feel like much at the time. I also built a database for the Messagefirst site to handle some dynamic content…lots of fun, and once again I feel like I actually learned something in my classes (except MySQL JOINs…though luckily @schenkin is generally kind enough to write them for me :) Now I just need to get a bit more familiar with AJAXy techniques and libraries…JavaScript/etc. aren’t that complicated, but as usual it’s a matter of getting comfortable with the core vocabulary and syntax of the language.

One thing that’s been bugging me lately about all these languages…comment syntax is different pretty much across the board. Always have to think twice before putting in comments (which I’m getting into a really good habit of doing).