The SOLE purpose of this series is to help call
attention to sites that I think many would find most interesting—in one way or
another. Just to be clear, inclusion in
this series is not necessarily meant as an endorsement, and I have included
sites that I found rather disturbing.
The link below each image is to the site itself, and each image is
linked to the particular post from which it was taken when applicable. Please, go see for yourself. Oh, and as of August 10, 2012, I will be no
longer including sites that have auto-play and word verification engaged.
This series will include as many of my all-time
favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak). Now, each one included in each edition will
have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination,
but they will not be numbered. For I
just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others. So, this will not be a countdown, but if you
are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter. Besides, with no countdown, this could go on
forever and ever! Oh, and despite the
fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite
as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make. For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by
nature.
As indicated in
[Spilling Some Beans], I have been having a lot of “fun” trying to learn how to
write the code needed to develop a new website and the corresponding web
application, which will undoubtedly lead to all participating members becoming
filthy rich. Well, maybe not if the
likes of [Kevin Skoglund] have very much to do with it.
A good example of the
“fun” I have been having is Master Skoglund writing code in one place and then
cutting and pasting it somewhere else in the same file—sometimes IMMEDIATELY
after the initial placement. I do not
understand why, but that always proves to be a big problem for me. For after duplicating his steps EXACTLY, all
sorts of errors crop-up for me. Whereas,
there are no errors when I simply rewrite the moved code instead of cutting and
pasting it.
Simply? Yeah, that’s a laugh—especially when my
eyesight is more blurry than usual. For
the code in question is sometimes well over a thirty characters in length, with
such trivial things as there being a difference between parentheses (()), square/box brackets ([])
and curly braces ({}) being a very big deal when
it comes to writing code.
Would you like to
know just how many hours I have wasted trying to fix what was evidently broken
about the pasted code before I finally gave up and started rewriting the code
to begin with? Sorry, it is too depressing
to think about.
Yes, I would think
that the problem may have something to do with spacing, but that is supposed to
not matter between PHP tags (<?php……….?>).
Besides, the majority of those wasted hours were spent on adding a space
here and taking away one there. [Insert
double-sigh and a groan here.]
Ah, but you do not
know the half of it yet. For Master
Skoglund almost always shows how to do everything the hard way BEFORE getting
to a much easier way.
Please allow me to
give you an example of that regarding a subject I am intimately familiar with
that someone without any knowledge of would ask me to teach them about, which
would be driving a big truck. Since
driving a big truck involves getting it to move, being able to place it into
the proper gear is a necessity. So, I
start the student out with a basic four-speed transmission and then move on to
a duplex, which is essentially two four-speeds in tandem, while keeping the
triplex (three four-speeds) to the last but not least part of this stage of their
instruction. I next move them on to nine
and ten-speeds, which is a basic five-speed with a low/high splitter for the
rear differential. There is also a
15-speed (with and without a deep reduction) related to the nine and ten-speeds. Next up is a 13-speed, which has a low/high splitter
for each separate gear in the high range.
An 18-speed has a low/high splitter for each separate gear in both
ranges. After all that, I come to the
fact that modern advances have allowed for automatic transmissions tough enough
to handle the great weights hauled by big trucks, which makes it unnecessary
for a driver to master shifting manual transmissions.
In all fairness,
Master Skoglund may be a member of an ancient coding society that requires all instructors
to have their students spend a certain number of wasted hours in pursuit of
nothing but frustration before they are allowed to learn the secret answer that
is at the heart of his style of instruction.
On the other hand, he may be just a prime example for why I.T. experts
are usually the most beloved people in a business setting. The real reason for
Master Skoglund’s teaching style may be much simpler…and sinister. For if he makes coding magic too easy for us
mundanes to understand, there would no longer be such a need for his (and
others like him) wizardry—would there? In any event, here I sit
nervously awaiting the arrival of Windows 10.
If all goes as it should, installing the new operating system will allow
me to use Laravel and quickly get to where I want to go. Yeah, like that is likely to happen. Sigh.
This series will include as many of my all-time
favorite (ATF) tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak). Now, each one included in each edition will
have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination,
but they will not be numbered. For I
just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others. So, this will not be a countdown, but if you
are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter. Besides, with no countdown, this could go on
forever and ever! Oh, and despite the
fact that there is absolutely no way your musical tastes could be as exquisite
as mine, I welcome any suggestions you might dare to make. For I am, after all, quite magnanimous by
nature.
Back during our childhood, our parents would often load
up my brother and me after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive
around where we lived. Even though we
were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them again, and
this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a series
revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again. The link below the image is to the site
itself, and the image is linked to the post it was first included in here.
The SOLE purpose of this series is to help call
attention to sites that I think many would find most interesting—in one way or
another. Just to be clear, inclusion in
this series is not necessarily meant as an endorsement, and I have included
sites that I found rather disturbing.
The link below each image is to the site itself, and each image is
linked to the particular post from which it was taken when applicable. Please, go see for yourself. Oh, and as of August 10, 2012, I will be no
longer including sites that have auto-play and word verification engaged.
