I’m many things, but the part I want to talk about tonight is my coder. I’ve been coding for more than half my life: When I was 8, I started writing some basic LOGO programs in an extracurricular activity called Wiz Kids. (One of my best friends to this day, Donkey Kong, I met through the program, though we weren’t in the same session). My dad showed me some Perl back before web 1.0. I have a degree and a half in Computer Science, though I’m not certain what good either of those do me.<\/p>\n
But I can code, and I do enjoy it. I just suck at it. Case in point: I just dug out a set of PHP scripts I wrote for a friend who has a webcomic. They’re not horrible<\/span>, but I see so many things I could have done better. I’m fairly certain it’s actually secure code (which means something, in php), but the design is all wrong: It’s written as an application that you drop a layout into, rather than as a set of scripts you drop into a layout.<\/p>\n I’m gonna fix that, eventually. But, for the moment, here<\/a>‘s the code. It’s used in only two sites, one of which is Brian Carroll’s Instant Classic Genrezvous Point<\/a>. It’s an interesting exercise, but needs to be reworked. Still, not bad for a couple days of PHP coding without any real direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m many things, but the part I want to talk about tonight is my coder. I’ve been coding for more than half my life: When I was 8, I started writing some basic LOGO programs in an extracurricular activity called Wiz Kids. (One of my best friends to this day, Donkey Kong, I met through … Continue reading On PHP design<\/span>