Nerdular Nerdence!

May 13th, 2005

The other day, I picked up a new general book to learn PHP, which will vastly contribute to this here blog as well as a number of other web projects I’m currently working on (restructuring of HPL Labs and all its artists’ pages, a portfolio site demonstrating my general web fu for use with resumes etc.), and also discovered that there are a number of really good CSS/HTML manuals Out There as well: books that do not deal with XHTML or CSS construction only, but clearly show the relationship between them in such as way as to illustrate precisely how each system interlocks to create styled content. Friggin’ awesome. Soon as I get some extra cash, I’ll be picking them up as well, and then my dynamic web fu should be pretty damned smoking.

I’ve discovered I really like programming dynamic pages. Now, there’s always a time and a place for good ol’ static XHTML, but even using a bare minimum of PHP or JavaScript to enhance a page has proven to be extremely useful in cutting down on the amount of work I have to do to prepare individual pages and whatnot for websites. I really should’ve learned this stuff ages ago.

Now. So much for software news. In hardware news, it seems that my laptop’s DVD-ROM drive really, really does not like the new version of iTunes (4.8). There’s some kind of strange device driver conflict between the drive and iTunes that results in a BSOD every time I insert a new disk to, say, rip some music. This is the only time I’ve ever experienced a BSOD on this laptop, and I guess I’ll have to check this little problem out in more detail and figure out what’s going on there, because I really want to keep using iTunes, since it’s a great jukebox/music-management program.

OK. Enough nerdery for today. Remember folks: coming soon…Oneirophrenia.net!

By Derek C. F. Pegritz on May 13th, 2005 | Scategory: Computer Nerdery |