Sample Blog Entries

Below are sample blog entries, and some responses. "From the work of others, new ideas are hatched..."

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Welcome to my itc280 Blog.
This is the first entry into my Blog for Spring itc280.
This will help Big Brother Bill keep tabs on my progress.
All comments and or suggestions are welcomed.

Assignment One
Created construction page - 15 minutes - copied sample page and adjusted
Created page decscription page - 10 minutes - copied sample page and deleted sample entries
Created site plan page - 5 minutes (incomplete) - copied sample page
Created blog page - 15 minutes - not on sccc server yet
Moved all onto zephir and checked for errors - 30 minutes - arranged in appropriate folders and adjusted links on construction page as needed

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Got my construction page done and uploaded to the server. Links work but still need to edit the excel spreadsheet that describes the sites pages. Need to start thinking about the website I am going to do. I might do something for zzzzz.com . They need a database driven solution to their current review submission process.

Best blog ever! - April 8th 2008
This past summer when I visited Flat Head Lake in Montana, I had the pleasure of being introduced to the best form of blogging I have seen. Actually to be more accurate, this is the best form of Glogging I have ever seen. A local farmer actually logs small snippets of daily information on her fresh chicken eggs along with the date. Each egg has a totally personal record of events the day the egg was harvested. Her Egg Logs add such a local perspective on where, when, and who the eggs actually come from.

"May 1st, Lots of wind today, fence on the north side blew over. Jimmy is going to fix it so our goats don't escape."

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
First posting for ITC 280 PHP Development
The first thing I've learned from this class is how easy it is to start a blog. Now that I know, maybe I'll start blogging about politics or education.

Bill said... Starting with assignment 3, I hope you'll start blogging about PHP too! At minimum I'll expect to see at least time spent on your tasks. The idea is that we can bill for time, if we know how long something takes to build.

File Structure April 10, 2008
Current hierarchy of my site. The development folder outside of public_html contains daily work that I leave untouched in case I need to go back to that day in time due more than likely to mistake. It is not a backup however. I like labeling the days work in dated folders. This way I can compress that day and “lose” it on a hidden flash drive for those really rainy days when I think I lost my code. Due to the amount of similar projects I have at once this helps me not grind my teeth to hard knowing I have backups for each day (and each project)!

April 13th- Fair sees
I started to build my page for php on Friday. I am close to wrapping it up as soon as I get my Excel sheet together. I really enjoyed taking our time in class to review includes, I feel even more confident using them. Mostly I am glad my taxes are done!

Sunday, April 13, 2008 Up and Running
For my final project/upcoming assignments, I've decided to focus on a pet store - a regional supplier of specialty high-end natural dog & cat foods (as well as other pet items). I've saved the placeholders for the Site Plan and File Tracker on my construction page but haven't loaded much info into those documents yet, as I'm waiting to get direction from Bill on how to do that in future assignments.

Bill said... I'm glad you have a specific goal! That makes it much easier to proceed in a class such as this.If the assignments don't follow the customer needs precisely, consider fulfilling the requirements of the ITC280 class in a 'parallel' version of the site, on Zephir.This way you can remove (or never build) pieces that are a requirement of the class, but are wrong for a specific customer.

Monday, April 14, 2008 - Not Really Sure
For the most part assignment one was a straight forward easy to do task. There was only one thing that I wasn't to sure about. The part were I was suppose to make a spread sheet that would give a description of each of the main pages on the site was a little difficult for me. I'm thinking that the description was to be about what the final project site would consist of and since I'm unsure as to what that will be I change some things around on the example the instructor gave us and put that up on the site. Time: 45min

Bill said... I'm hoping that after our class describing a 'web application' its easier to understand why we use a spreadsheet. Since files in a web application do not connect in an obvious way, and may not even be visible (formhandlers) the spreadsheet showing all involved files is a huge help as we build (and integrate) complicated applications. It is hard to see it coming, when we aren't quite there yet!

April 19th: Finished Assignment 1 & 2
I just wonder I don't even know about PHP well, how I create page description. Anyways I did. I'm sure when this class is proceeding, I'm going to rewrite the page description. Speaking of assignment 2, first I thought "can I really solve this?", but actually I could Lol I could get a little bit confidence from this assignment. I like PHP. I like this class.

April 19th: Assignment Two
It took me 2.5 hours to finish this assignment. I'm still a bit confused about why the quotes didn't need to be escaped, but I'll try to remember to ask in class on Monday.

April 19th: assignment #2
okay, i've completed troubleshooting adder.php and uploaded it onto my zephir share. i realized that the const.php page didn't have a way to link to my completed assignments. since i'm taking WEB110 this quarter, i copy and pasted some of my WEB110 portal page into my const.php page -- specificially the assignment list -- as well as duplicated some directory structure on zephir. while i was at it, i made my const.php XHTML Transitional compliant too. also, i added links to pagedesc.xls and siteplan.txt, since the work was minimal and the customer requested it. cheers.

"Homework Assignment # 2"
Duration: 1.5 - 2 hours.
Comments: Added code verifies a number has been entered in each field, but it would be useful to find out how to validate for the type of text entered. Using "double" or "int" in the "if" clause did not function.

Bill said... Good question! Check out: http://php.net/is_numeric There are links to other versions from there!