Lately I’ve been playing a lot of World of Warcraft. I’ve been playing my druid and healing or doing bad dps in pugged raids. However you look at it, healing is more my thing than dps is. Let’s face it, I just don’t tear faces as good as some other players do. If I’m roled in as dps and a healer wants to switch roles, go for it.
Aside from games, I’ve been reading. Finishing up the last few pages on The Resurrected Man. I would have been done with this already, but with WoW, work, and spending time with friends and family, sometimes I rather sleep on my train ride home than read a book. Or I rather let the boyfriend get his shut eye instead of getting a bit of reading done.
However, the book is pretty fantastic. If you like high sci-fi combined with a bit of mystery, then this would be one for you. I’m oddly surprised as I didn’t think of myself as having a big interest in sci-fi to begin with.
The first thing I did this morning at work was work on a wordpress blog’s theme. We’re in the process of rebranding an existing blog and giving it a new look. We’re working off of a theme that was build by WP Zoom. The end product of my modifications is what is shown above.
I peeked inside as apparently, I’m the only person that knows how to customize wordpress without using a plugin for everything. I was thankful that the design is div based. While table layouts are out of date, I still run into them from time to time. But let me be honest, I hate using tables for layout purposes. I don’t like the way they clutter things up with tr and td.
Div based designs are easier but even that can get messy. It’s important to know when you need a div or when you’re needlessly just putting divs around everything.
I was somewhat fed up when someone else had modified the stylesheet to another theme of mine and ended up screwing up the formatting. I don’t know how… or where she thought the first paragraph of every entry should be italicized…
I went to CNN.com to browse around. I found this:
Small school in Texas bringing “change” for Haiti
Today while at work, someone asked me about Wordpress and once I heard the inquiry, I had the “oops” moment.
Person: There’s a problem with the date. Some of the entries don’t display the date on the archive pages.
Stephanie: Oh huh, that’s weird. Is it on the other blogs?
Stephanie’s brain: Dammit, I forgot about how the_date() and the_time() works different.
But I fixed the issue. Basically, when using Wordpress, if you want to display the date on ALL the entries, you should be using the_time() function. However, if you only want it on the first entry of that day (as oppose to having it on ALL the entries), you want to use the_date function.
Simple tip, easy to forget. :]
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I’ve been out of tune with PHP, I realize. Can’t be blamed. I have a job that isn’t programming related, and most days, I’m too busy to really look into the new things dealing with PHP. However, currently, I’m rebuilding my portfolio. At first, the idea was, get the static site up and then slowly making it dynamic later. However, while I got the foundation all built, I realized that a lot of the pages I want would be redundant to build. With the time I put into building every page, I could whip out a Portfolio CMS.
Basic functions I’m looking into:
- Drag and drop reordering of projects
- Automatically insert image height and width in html
- Ability to upload images (maybe) – since it’s personal use, I almost always prefer FTP
I’m used to procedural programming but this time around, I’m going the object-oriented method which is taking more time because I want to do it right. I must say, after a few tutorials on the concept of OOP, I can see why some would prefer this method. It’s less messy and more organized. I find that I can read my PHP a lot more now than before.
I started reading The Resurrected Man by Sean Williams. I was skeptical but I also got it at a used book store. I sat down over the weekend and started reading. I was surprised when I found myself engrossed in the story and when I went from page 1 to 100 in half hour because a) not really my type of book and b) I was really skeptical about liking it.
However, it earns an A+ in my book so far. :)
A few weeks ago, I finished reading The Outlanders. It started out slow but picked up pace once the story got going and she actually went back in time. However, after 500 pages of overdone romance and sex and all that, I was getting a bit tired of it. I guess it may be the fact that I’m not one for time-traveling romance. Let alone the justification of the main character for her infidelity. Marriage is marriage. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a different time zone or anything, the vows are “till death do us part” not “till time travel do us part.” Other than that, the book kept me interested enough till the end but I probably won’t be continuing with the series. It probably wouldn’t be as bad if the story didn’t justify her infidelity and if she felt a bit remorseful for cheating rather than saying “Well I may never get back there. I love Frank but Jamie is too hot for me to resist.”
