My Time - Webdesign

Current Music: Cake - End of the Movie

Hey! I've been a very bad boy, not posting for over a month. For this I apologize, dear blog. There's just too much on my plate these days! Days are getting shorter and my TODO list is following the opposite trend. Here are some of the things that are keeping me occupied:

Webdesign / Scripting
I'm currently maintaining sites for 2 BC-based clients, and a few more are comming in the near future. This work pays the bills, and leaves me enough computer time (i try not to be on the computer more than 8 hours in a day) for what I really love to do: scripting. PHP and Javascript scripting, to be precise. The former is a server-side language, meaning that it runs on the machine that hosts my website. The later is client-side, so it gets run on user browsers.

Combining the two into a seamless web application is called Dynamic HTML (or DHTML), a very powerful coding technique that is the programming equivalent of two very hot girls french kissing. It allows for such things as my latest creation, a script I call Blog Watcher that allows me to check all my favorite blogs (there are over 30 now!) at once for signs of new materials. It then reports back to me, and I only have to visit the ones that have updated since the last time I visited them. Geeks can think of it as an RSS feed aggregator on steroids. Non-geeks can think of it as magic. Anyway you look at it, it's one cool tool and is already saving me 30 minutes every morning!

[more to come soon!]