Again I am sitting at my desk with a long list of stuff I never did last month like I said I was going to such as a Css Zen Garden submission or submitting new photography (albeit I do have some new photos, but I don’t think they’re that great). Guess my out-of-school work ethic could use some maintenance.

Anyway, I did finish and publish that Dashboard widget of mine that I said I was going to. Turned out to be a pretty good success for my first real jaunt into javascript. To boot, I am planning on adding some new features to it but I won’t kid anyone here, that probably won’t happen for quite some time.

As I’ve already established I’ve been pretty lazy this last month or two, with what exactly is hard to pin-point but probably consists mostly of sleep and some form of entertainment. Laziness aside, for the last week or two I’ve been working on learning myself some PHP and MySQL by diving in head first and creating something. With the help of the internet and a few books I bought before I moved back I’ve been able to make some headway into learning how exactly these beasts work and I’ve been pretty impressed with how easy it is to do this or that once I got the basics down.

I thought I’d start off my experience with PHP and MySQL with a project that’d I’d have to work at diligently to pull off, and so my first project in the works is an image gallery of sorts. I guess it’s more of a photoblog than a gallery but in any case I call it “Greent” (you can pronounce it like “green tea” or “geenteh” or whatever). Basically it displays your images and the information your put for each one. Under each image is a expandable and collapsable section (collapsed by default) where people can leave a comment for your image with fancy-schmancy live preview. As of right now that’s about it for features but as I learn more PHP and MySQL tirckery I want to add the ability to change the template around easily, have thumbnails (for a gallery overview type page), and have multiple users; at least those few things are on my to-do-eventually list.

So keep your eyes pealed for a public release of this thing. It’s certainly no replacement for already established photo gallery-esque things like flickr, but I think it’s pretty neat thus far.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 28th, 2005 at 12:16 AM and is filed under Ethics, Personal.