it's all good on zephir

except reCaptcha, but that's no problem
Spent a cople hours sat. morning with the new theme and making links for the stempel project that make sense and get to all the right assignment pages.

I can't wait to put this together again for another project.
Need to put this up on his host.
Theme looks like crap in IE8 - need to do something about that.
Don't fully understand permissons and file secrity
Should do .htaccess assignment looks like best way to lock down files.
Seems like we sped through SQL - or maybe it's really that simple - four commands

Trying to use classes better. Current design has many divs with IDs.

seperating demo from real

Just figuring out how very similar many of the demo pages are tot the final. Many exercises in adding code to existing pages to increase functionality.
Now I have a bunch of files I don't need but don't want to throw out.

3 hours before class Tuesday
2 hours with Matt Wednesday.
4 hours Thursday

Documnetation

Worked with Matt from class on one of our assignments. We installed the documenter which was a good exercise, because I've always been pretty bad about documentation of anything. I like the idea of keeping notes as comments right with my work. Now for recording hours - still a week spot. Working with computers reminds me of working in the darkroom. Every task by itself is very small, in the darkroom I was constantly timing things and somehow lost track of hours. Here I check and recheck things I do and the time slips away.

I'm imagining my experience here as being given a tool box and being shown how to use the tools. Pretty cool.

working

everything is making more sense. Definitely spending a lot of time. 5 hours already today.
got the documenter installed.
Can't find where THEME_PATH is defined - I'd like to use that and don't know how to
I like the objects we have such as copyright and sidebars - I want to learn how to make those to create a little nicer copyright notice
put in another 6 hours or so
got stempels list/view page to work, this will be great - need to work on theme and design still, but it works...

having trouble getting documenter to work, but then I don't know what it's supposed to do.

moving on

get a new theme up and running yesterday - about 5 hours
got mysql_demo page repurposed to use test_cars data and shows in new theme
several hours there

making tables

Got my project on wenick-photo host and zephir, made a couple tables for fun and used one of cars on the project page.

I have about four hours into it today. phpMinAdmin seems easier to use than PHPMyAdmin

command line

Finally got into zephir by using the command line. tried out the commands listed in our Lessons Page. Fun. Made new table on zepher and new page on final project site to show data printed to page from db

Created a new db on wenick-photo too using phpMyAdmin - very graphical, probably need more of a lesson with this than with command line