So I'm getting married in 28 days to the most wonderful man in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!
XD XD XD XD <3 <3 <3 <3 XD XD XD XD <3 <3 <3 <3
And the garden is coming along nicely!
And I altered some clothes!
And I finished IDIcommunity!
And I'm still working on it!
And I got a job working in the IS department at Scentsy!
HOLY COW THIS SUMMER IS NUTS!!!!!!
4.02.2011
Breathe in...
WOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I got it working! I mean the View... heh never mind.
Let me try that again:
Views are part of Drupal. They make everything easier. For instance, say there are a bunch of links I want to post. A non-drupal website would state that first you make the page with HTML (which means you copy/paste everything to make sure it looks the same, which is just fine for normal websites that only have a few you need to do) and THEN you make the page. After the page has been made, you snag the link and make a new page where you paste all the links there, and when you add a new one, you have to go through and update the whole page.
It reminds me of the Pronoun song from Grammer rock: "'Cuz pasting all those links over and over can really wear you down..." ;) hahaha
SO I could've gone with that, and it would've been fine, but it would've used a lot of time that I could've used for more important things.
So I tried to learn how to do a View. And I don't know how it happened, but with the help of taxonomy terms and a view and a menu link, I have the list of links that will show to the roles that they need to show to!
* HAPPY TAPPY DANCE!! *
So it'll basically update itself when I add new pages that have to do with it!! YAAAAAAY!!!
Hey, it's gorgeous outside, and it's been a SUPER DUPER FANTASTIC DAY!!! I love LOVE LOVE Conference!!!!! :D <3
Let me try that again:
Views are part of Drupal. They make everything easier. For instance, say there are a bunch of links I want to post. A non-drupal website would state that first you make the page with HTML (which means you copy/paste everything to make sure it looks the same, which is just fine for normal websites that only have a few you need to do) and THEN you make the page. After the page has been made, you snag the link and make a new page where you paste all the links there, and when you add a new one, you have to go through and update the whole page.
It reminds me of the Pronoun song from Grammer rock: "'Cuz pasting all those links over and over can really wear you down..." ;) hahaha
SO I could've gone with that, and it would've been fine, but it would've used a lot of time that I could've used for more important things.
So I tried to learn how to do a View. And I don't know how it happened, but with the help of taxonomy terms and a view and a menu link, I have the list of links that will show to the roles that they need to show to!
* HAPPY TAPPY DANCE!! *
So it'll basically update itself when I add new pages that have to do with it!! YAAAAAAY!!!
Hey, it's gorgeous outside, and it's been a SUPER DUPER FANTASTIC DAY!!! I love LOVE LOVE Conference!!!!! :D <3
3.29.2011
It's still March!
ST PATTY'S DAY ROCKED SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVED being with family and friends and students and people of awesomeness!!! And I'm pretty sure I decimated most of the cookies we packed along with us... hehehehe (One of the things I love about Irish Dance, we can eat lots of cookies without guilt. I don't know why that is, I just declare it to be so!)
The nice thing this year is that I felt like I could probably go longer, except for my feet which hurt like CRAZY! But ignoring the feet, I could've done a lot more I think. Course, ignoring the feet wouldn't have gotten myself that far... :D But yeah, St Patty's Day could've been just a little longer... I don't know about Friday tho. We had one performance on Friday, and it went really well, mentally we were all toast, but physically, once we got our shoes tied and started dancing, it was really fun!
Oh, and someday I need to blog about the Weiser Museum... because that place is epic. That place DEFINES epic. And it's cool too. :D So I'll get on that eventually!
I was just out prepping the raised beds so we can start in on the GARDEN!!! Spinach is going to be planted in one, and the other I got ready because I was out there anyways. I also cleaned out the spaces around the strawberries, and they seem to be all ready to spring up and be happy! YAY!!!!!!
The IDI Community site is going to be AMAZING!!!!!!! I figured out permissions FINALLY and that... was AWESOME!!!!! XD And you know what's really funny? After all this time learning Drupal 6, I was all ready to get in and GO with Drupal 6. I had this little thought, "Well hey, isn't Drupal 7 almost out?" and then I thought "Yeeeeah... huh. I wonder what would be better, the newest one, or the one I just learned?" So I puzzled about that for a bit, then I decided that it would probably be better to stick with Drupal 6. And then I decided it didn't matter since I probably wouldn't have a choice in the matter... :D So I went to download it to the web server (a trippy experience, I hadn't done that before) and LO AND BEHOLD! There was Drupal 7! AVAILABLE! FOR PEOPLE TO DOWNLOAD!!! So I downloaded it anyways. I'm a sucker for new technology, and it only made sense since Drupal 7 would be the norm anyway. Why upgrade later when I could start it upgraded?
And now I must get steps on Vimeo so I can actually have some video content to play with! And I have to figure out Views... which I'm a little scared of. I got it working tho, which was another thing I was scared of, so I should just jump in and do it. But now it's time for dance. Until next time!
The nice thing this year is that I felt like I could probably go longer, except for my feet which hurt like CRAZY! But ignoring the feet, I could've done a lot more I think. Course, ignoring the feet wouldn't have gotten myself that far... :D But yeah, St Patty's Day could've been just a little longer... I don't know about Friday tho. We had one performance on Friday, and it went really well, mentally we were all toast, but physically, once we got our shoes tied and started dancing, it was really fun!
Oh, and someday I need to blog about the Weiser Museum... because that place is epic. That place DEFINES epic. And it's cool too. :D So I'll get on that eventually!
I was just out prepping the raised beds so we can start in on the GARDEN!!! Spinach is going to be planted in one, and the other I got ready because I was out there anyways. I also cleaned out the spaces around the strawberries, and they seem to be all ready to spring up and be happy! YAY!!!!!!
The IDI Community site is going to be AMAZING!!!!!!! I figured out permissions FINALLY and that... was AWESOME!!!!! XD And you know what's really funny? After all this time learning Drupal 6, I was all ready to get in and GO with Drupal 6. I had this little thought, "Well hey, isn't Drupal 7 almost out?" and then I thought "Yeeeeah... huh. I wonder what would be better, the newest one, or the one I just learned?" So I puzzled about that for a bit, then I decided that it would probably be better to stick with Drupal 6. And then I decided it didn't matter since I probably wouldn't have a choice in the matter... :D So I went to download it to the web server (a trippy experience, I hadn't done that before) and LO AND BEHOLD! There was Drupal 7! AVAILABLE! FOR PEOPLE TO DOWNLOAD!!! So I downloaded it anyways. I'm a sucker for new technology, and it only made sense since Drupal 7 would be the norm anyway. Why upgrade later when I could start it upgraded?
And now I must get steps on Vimeo so I can actually have some video content to play with! And I have to figure out Views... which I'm a little scared of. I got it working tho, which was another thing I was scared of, so I should just jump in and do it. But now it's time for dance. Until next time!
3.09.2011
TEHE
YEEEEEEEEEEAH... 8 MORE DAYS 'TILL ST PATTY'S DAY!!!!!!!!!!!
What's the significance? To an Irish Dancer, this is like, huge enormous Marathon day. To me, it's a fun-filled day of awesomeness where each year I get to see how much longer I can go without keeling over! XD haha just kidding, I don't plan on keeling over this year! I remember one St Patty's day, I think the 3rd one in, we rented some of the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby road shows, and then we ordered Papa Johns pizza. We ate the pizza, and then odorF fell asleep, after sitting on her bed for a second. She later woke me up at around 2 in the morning and asked if we'd been asleep long, and what happened. It didn't matter that she missed the movies though, because we all eventually turned them off and zonked out too! :D
I'm super grateful we don't have the early morning news this year, I guess it counts as sleeping in that the first performance we have is at 9 this year on the 17th! haha!
Anyway, keeling over normally happens AFTER everything is over, and we're s'posed to go to sleep at that point, so it's all good. Speaking of which, it's about past time for me to go to sleep now! Busy day of lots of teaching tomorrow, which is obviously going to be a BLAST!
Fun memories. (: I'm allowed to skip down memory lane, this'll be my 11th St Patty's Day as an Irish Dancer!
I laugh though, because although the dancing is a huge part of it, to me, St Patty's Day represents so much more. Family, friends, teamwork, love, and gratitude. I'm so thankful that I've been able to dance with my marvelous family these years! Mom and Dad have been through each St Patty's Day with all of us, and each time it's a hugely rewarding experience. And to be joined by some of the most amazing people ever on the way has been a wonderful thing! I love my friends and students so much! And to see them work so hard to learn everything they need to, and then perform it brings happiness and joy to my heart! And to work with them is an honor and privilege. Yes, St Patty's Day is in 8 days, and I'm SOOOO EXCITED!!!
What's the significance? To an Irish Dancer, this is like, huge enormous Marathon day. To me, it's a fun-filled day of awesomeness where each year I get to see how much longer I can go without keeling over! XD haha just kidding, I don't plan on keeling over this year! I remember one St Patty's day, I think the 3rd one in, we rented some of the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby road shows, and then we ordered Papa Johns pizza. We ate the pizza, and then odorF fell asleep, after sitting on her bed for a second. She later woke me up at around 2 in the morning and asked if we'd been asleep long, and what happened. It didn't matter that she missed the movies though, because we all eventually turned them off and zonked out too! :D
I'm super grateful we don't have the early morning news this year, I guess it counts as sleeping in that the first performance we have is at 9 this year on the 17th! haha!
Anyway, keeling over normally happens AFTER everything is over, and we're s'posed to go to sleep at that point, so it's all good. Speaking of which, it's about past time for me to go to sleep now! Busy day of lots of teaching tomorrow, which is obviously going to be a BLAST!
Fun memories. (: I'm allowed to skip down memory lane, this'll be my 11th St Patty's Day as an Irish Dancer!
I laugh though, because although the dancing is a huge part of it, to me, St Patty's Day represents so much more. Family, friends, teamwork, love, and gratitude. I'm so thankful that I've been able to dance with my marvelous family these years! Mom and Dad have been through each St Patty's Day with all of us, and each time it's a hugely rewarding experience. And to be joined by some of the most amazing people ever on the way has been a wonderful thing! I love my friends and students so much! And to see them work so hard to learn everything they need to, and then perform it brings happiness and joy to my heart! And to work with them is an honor and privilege. Yes, St Patty's Day is in 8 days, and I'm SOOOO EXCITED!!!
2.22.2011
Oh the fun of Mondays
MONDAY!!!!!!!:
YEAH BAAAAABY!!!!!!!!! I can control permissions ON EACH AND EVERY PAGE!!!!!!!! HOLY AWESOME BATMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
XDD
This is basically my green light and go ahead. Prepare yourself, World, because this is going to be... Spectacular...
So I'm here watching Jiggers play MarioCart while he thinks about how awesome it would be to watch a midget fight, or a roller derby. He's pushing for the midget fight so far... I'm a little worried, because he calls ME a midget. He also chose the lamest car ever and is laughing as he fails epically. Even his epic fail in MarioCart is better than my sweet success.
Jiggers: "You know how much I think of you, Toad and odorF? It it wasn't sold out, I'd take you to see that midget fight."
odorF: "Gee, thanks..."
Jiggers:"Sure, it's unethical, but it sounds like a great time."
More quotes, because he's just too funny:
Jiggers:"Hello, toad (mariocart toad, not me), welcome to the Broccoli show of North America... heh heh heh heh"
"Toad, you want to know what's unique about this?"
"What?"
"I'm baby Luigi in the cheap charger at the Coconut Mall on 50cc without any items!"
Do all of you want to know what's really unique? He won. And he's chuckling.
2.20.2011
THIS IS WOT TO DO!!!!!!!!!
CONTENT ACCESS!!!!!!!
Okay, see this screenshot:
http://drupal.org/node/257453
THIS PAGE EXISTS!!! This is how I got there:
Go to Administer
Content Management
Then click on Content Types
VOILA! Go edit any of those there settings!
You can do it by role, and I checked something like by node basis enabled, so I don't know what that'll do yet. Perhaps I'll go create something and find out... yeah, that's a good idea.
So I went and played Just Dance with Dad instead of figuring that out... haha... and now it's tomorrow (aka todayish :D ) and so I'll just post this and continue on Monday!
Okay, see this screenshot:
http://drupal.org/node/257453
THIS PAGE EXISTS!!! This is how I got there:
Go to Administer
Content Management
Then click on Content Types
VOILA! Go edit any of those there settings!
You can do it by role, and I checked something like by node basis enabled, so I don't know what that'll do yet. Perhaps I'll go create something and find out... yeah, that's a good idea.
So I went and played Just Dance with Dad instead of figuring that out... haha... and now it's tomorrow (aka todayish :D ) and so I'll just post this and continue on Monday!
2.15.2011
Thoughts from Quotes
"Think of what is within your power if you but live so that you may invoke the power which is within you."
~J Reuban Clark
"We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day."
~Richard G Scott
http://lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/the-transforming-power-of-faith-and-character?lang=eng
I've been thinking about these things a lot. It seems like so often, we end up fearing ourselves. I'll speak from experience, there have been times in my life where I've looked at my life and worried that I would make a mistake. I mean, there are scary things all around us in this world. For instance, there are possibilities that my next dance performance could stink. Maybe that's not a good connection, because so few people understand Irish Dance that it's really not that scary to go up and ad-lib if all falls apart... How's this, next time I play the piano for Institute, it's entirely possible that I'll goof it up and feel really uncomfortable. Totally plausible. But does that stop me? Depends on the day... ;) haha
But seriously, if I want to be able to accompany my Institute class in the hymns, I need to be willing to do it. By doing, I am able. If I know I can play the piano, but fear the possibility of making a mistake, then fear will stop me from being who I already am.
Here's another quote I have on my wall from Girls' Camp about 5 years ago:
"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
~Marianne Williamson
I'm grateful for the opportunities to make breakfast at Institute with the awesome Service committee, to plan FHE activities, teach dance, organize performances, perform, program websites, play the piano, learn Drupal, garden, sew, and do the things I love to do, because they are awesome opportunities for growth. These things are comparatively small, but seem huge to me. With some of these no-one can see when I make a mistake. Others it's sometimes painfully obvious. I'm normally not scared when no-one can see me, because I know I'll just jump right back up and give it another go. But when people are around watching... It increases the difficulty for me. I think "Oh jeepers, they already saw me epically fail once, why should I even try?" I want to learn to silence that thought. I love the people around me, but I want to learn to just care what I think about myself at the end of the day. Because I've started to learn at the end of the day, it's what you and Heavenly Father think about yourself that really matters.
Can you be happy with yourself at the end of the day if you didn't do something because of what the people around you thought? I can't really. Though I admit, sometimes I just don't care. Take Ultimate Frisbee for example. I've epically failed at that basically every time I've tried to play it, but I still do it 'cuz I think it's fun to try! So yeah. I have no idea what that has to do with anything.
Anyways, jump up and do something fun. Try something new, whether or not you're good at it. Become who you already are, and see your potential.
Holy cow, I think I almost said something wise!
~J Reuban Clark
"We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day."
~Richard G Scott
http://lds.org/general-conference/2010/10/the-transforming-power-of-faith-and-character?lang=eng
I've been thinking about these things a lot. It seems like so often, we end up fearing ourselves. I'll speak from experience, there have been times in my life where I've looked at my life and worried that I would make a mistake. I mean, there are scary things all around us in this world. For instance, there are possibilities that my next dance performance could stink. Maybe that's not a good connection, because so few people understand Irish Dance that it's really not that scary to go up and ad-lib if all falls apart... How's this, next time I play the piano for Institute, it's entirely possible that I'll goof it up and feel really uncomfortable. Totally plausible. But does that stop me? Depends on the day... ;) haha
But seriously, if I want to be able to accompany my Institute class in the hymns, I need to be willing to do it. By doing, I am able. If I know I can play the piano, but fear the possibility of making a mistake, then fear will stop me from being who I already am.
Here's another quote I have on my wall from Girls' Camp about 5 years ago:
"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
~Marianne Williamson
I'm grateful for the opportunities to make breakfast at Institute with the awesome Service committee, to plan FHE activities, teach dance, organize performances, perform, program websites, play the piano, learn Drupal, garden, sew, and do the things I love to do, because they are awesome opportunities for growth. These things are comparatively small, but seem huge to me. With some of these no-one can see when I make a mistake. Others it's sometimes painfully obvious. I'm normally not scared when no-one can see me, because I know I'll just jump right back up and give it another go. But when people are around watching... It increases the difficulty for me. I think "Oh jeepers, they already saw me epically fail once, why should I even try?" I want to learn to silence that thought. I love the people around me, but I want to learn to just care what I think about myself at the end of the day. Because I've started to learn at the end of the day, it's what you and Heavenly Father think about yourself that really matters.
Can you be happy with yourself at the end of the day if you didn't do something because of what the people around you thought? I can't really. Though I admit, sometimes I just don't care. Take Ultimate Frisbee for example. I've epically failed at that basically every time I've tried to play it, but I still do it 'cuz I think it's fun to try! So yeah. I have no idea what that has to do with anything.
Anyways, jump up and do something fun. Try something new, whether or not you're good at it. Become who you already are, and see your potential.
Holy cow, I think I almost said something wise!
1.25.2011
Tron
So yeah. As amazing as I thought this movie was, I'm only surprised I haven't reviewed and/or given my take on it yet! :D
Basically, Tron is my new favorite movie, for several different reasons.
First off, let's just get this out of the way, Sam Flynn is like, an uber cutie. He has sweet computer skills, can think clearly on his feet, and has amazing hair.
Quorra and Kevin Flynn are awesome characters with actual substance to their characters and awesomeness!
Okay, next up, the soundtrack was AMAZING. It was this awesome blend of almost calm sounds, but then it would sound totally technological and quirky and THEN it'd be calm, technologically quirky, and get your adrenaline pumping all at once, with a side of intense. Coolest thing I think I've ever heard!
And the Linux commands used to access the Grid... I was so excited when I saw him use the whoami and history commands!!!! And there were a few others, something that used a -l or something, and I was freaking out I was so excited.
STORY! I really REALLY liked the story! Some may argue there wasn't one, but there was, and it was awesome. The best I can summarize the story is that Kevin Flynn the Dad disappeared, leaving his son, Sam Flynn ( <3 <3 <3 ) scarred and not wanting much to do with his father's super awesome computer company, except to pull an annual prank or two. This all changes when Kevin's old colleague gets a page from Kevin on his pager, and Sam goes to investigate at the old arcade. Having found his father's secret office behind the TRON arcade game, Sam accesses the history (through Linux commands XDD) and gets technologically transferred into the Grid.
THE GRID LOOKS AMAZING!!!!!!!!! All shiny, and everyone has spiffy glow in the dark outfits, except for some, who have all white outfits with blueish glowy stripes. Anyways, another favorite thing of mine. And then Sam finds CLU, a replica of his Dad, who unfortunately is kinda evil. He wants the Grid to be perfect, and as a computer program can't progress and learn unless reprogrammed to do so. So his idea of perfection is kinda warped. Programs do exactly what you expect them to do, because they were programmed that way. Kevin unfortunately can't reprogram CLU, because CLU wants to kill him. It's awkward like that.
When a special kind of race comes into existence because conditions were right, causing a miracle, Kevin Flynn got a new idea of perfection, but because these ISOs were unexpected and more human than a program, CLU decided they were imperfections that should be exterminated. So the ISOs were all killed. Kevin fought CLU at first, but quit when he figured out CLU fed off his resistance. So he proceeded to do nothing. Now I can't tell anything else, or I'll spoil it.
I love the life lessons learned too, like when we stop learning, we can make much bigger mistakes. When we decide we know it all, we afflict the people around us and can't see their worth and potential.
Another one I learned, sometimes it's best to wait. Apathy is different than caring a lot but not rushing into something sword waving and bungee jump cord in tow. You can care deeply, and still wait, and it's can be the best path to take.
There were more life lessons, but I'm listening to Drupal videos and should probably concentrate.
Favorite quotes:
"You're really messing with my Zen thing!"
"Made it."
"We're always on the same team." (I especially like that one when playing Mariocart with Jiggers)
P.S. I think this is blog post 42. TRON is the answer to the meaning of life!!!!
Quorra and Kevin Flynn are awesome characters with actual substance to their characters and awesomeness!
Okay, next up, the soundtrack was AMAZING. It was this awesome blend of almost calm sounds, but then it would sound totally technological and quirky and THEN it'd be calm, technologically quirky, and get your adrenaline pumping all at once, with a side of intense. Coolest thing I think I've ever heard!
And the Linux commands used to access the Grid... I was so excited when I saw him use the whoami and history commands!!!! And there were a few others, something that used a -l or something, and I was freaking out I was so excited.
STORY! I really REALLY liked the story! Some may argue there wasn't one, but there was, and it was awesome. The best I can summarize the story is that Kevin Flynn the Dad disappeared, leaving his son, Sam Flynn ( <3 <3 <3 ) scarred and not wanting much to do with his father's super awesome computer company, except to pull an annual prank or two. This all changes when Kevin's old colleague gets a page from Kevin on his pager, and Sam goes to investigate at the old arcade. Having found his father's secret office behind the TRON arcade game, Sam accesses the history (through Linux commands XDD) and gets technologically transferred into the Grid.
THE GRID LOOKS AMAZING!!!!!!!!! All shiny, and everyone has spiffy glow in the dark outfits, except for some, who have all white outfits with blueish glowy stripes. Anyways, another favorite thing of mine. And then Sam finds CLU, a replica of his Dad, who unfortunately is kinda evil. He wants the Grid to be perfect, and as a computer program can't progress and learn unless reprogrammed to do so. So his idea of perfection is kinda warped. Programs do exactly what you expect them to do, because they were programmed that way. Kevin unfortunately can't reprogram CLU, because CLU wants to kill him. It's awkward like that.
When a special kind of race comes into existence because conditions were right, causing a miracle, Kevin Flynn got a new idea of perfection, but because these ISOs were unexpected and more human than a program, CLU decided they were imperfections that should be exterminated. So the ISOs were all killed. Kevin fought CLU at first, but quit when he figured out CLU fed off his resistance. So he proceeded to do nothing. Now I can't tell anything else, or I'll spoil it.
I love the life lessons learned too, like when we stop learning, we can make much bigger mistakes. When we decide we know it all, we afflict the people around us and can't see their worth and potential.
Another one I learned, sometimes it's best to wait. Apathy is different than caring a lot but not rushing into something sword waving and bungee jump cord in tow. You can care deeply, and still wait, and it's can be the best path to take.
There were more life lessons, but I'm listening to Drupal videos and should probably concentrate.
Favorite quotes:
"You're really messing with my Zen thing!"
"Made it."
"We're always on the same team." (I especially like that one when playing Mariocart with Jiggers)
P.S. I think this is blog post 42. TRON is the answer to the meaning of life!!!!
1.08.2011
*Phew*
So watching these training videos seems to give me extra time to play with the settings on my blog. haha enjoy the new format!
And other than that, Drupal training from the videos seems to be going well. Somehow the training is improving my overall understanding of computers and their workings, as well as website workings. It's all connected... cool...
But I've discovered something about myself. I seem to have issues just staying in one place and finishing out videos. See, I get this sort of bubbly excitement. "WHAT!!!! THAT'S POSSIBLE??!?!?!!!?!?! I WANNA TRY IT!!!!!!!" So I pause the video and get onto my LocalHost site where I mess with settings, download modules, and then after I get really REALLY excited, I download LOTS of modules, and then I enable them all, then I submit my changes. That's when I find out several modules that are dependent on each other have installation issues or something, and so a lot of the ones I installed aren't working.
Lesson learned? Install and test one module at a time.
So then I'm like "Awwwwwwww MAN that didn't work... I guess I'll go watch the video again..."
Yeah, good choice, since they know what they're talking about... haha
Second lesson learned: FINISH WATCHING THE VIDEO. The nice thing about QuickTime too is that they have this nice summary of the chapters if you click on the arrow on the right of the time status bar. That was uber handy to find. I have the sneaking suspicion that when I get into actually developing this stuff for real, I may forget a lot of the things I watched. So being able to quickly reference the videos will be a great thing.
Third thing I've found out, is that sleep is really important. Especially when learning stuff from rather dry videos. Don't get me wrong, my geeky mentors are hilarious, but turn on a video, and I seem to have a huge temptation to just kinda drop off for a little while. Perhaps that's like, my brain stating that it's learning a lot and wants a break for a bit. At any rate, sleep is good, and I ought to take advantage of it.
Fourth thing? You know the Dad in Tron: Legacy? WELL he was the original actor in the first Tron!!!! Is that sweet or what? So Kevin Flynn in Tron is Kevin Flynn in Tron: Legacy! And Sam Flynn is still adorable. And the soundtrack is amazing. And the movie is amazing. And I think it's the coolest thing ever to be able to learn more about computers and have a movie that actually makes geekiness uber cool. Oh, and Allen, the guy who talks to Sam and is Kevin's friend, he was originally Tron in the first one, which I also thought was cool, because Kevin referenced Allen as the creator of Tron.
Oh, and the fourth thing is totally important. ;) This is a result of me staying up late. But I wanted to wrap all that up, it helps to write down what I learn so I don't have to relearn the next day.
And other than that, Drupal training from the videos seems to be going well. Somehow the training is improving my overall understanding of computers and their workings, as well as website workings. It's all connected... cool...
But I've discovered something about myself. I seem to have issues just staying in one place and finishing out videos. See, I get this sort of bubbly excitement. "WHAT!!!! THAT'S POSSIBLE??!?!?!!!?!?! I WANNA TRY IT!!!!!!!" So I pause the video and get onto my LocalHost site where I mess with settings, download modules, and then after I get really REALLY excited, I download LOTS of modules, and then I enable them all, then I submit my changes. That's when I find out several modules that are dependent on each other have installation issues or something, and so a lot of the ones I installed aren't working.
Lesson learned? Install and test one module at a time.
So then I'm like "Awwwwwwww MAN that didn't work... I guess I'll go watch the video again..."
Yeah, good choice, since they know what they're talking about... haha
Second lesson learned: FINISH WATCHING THE VIDEO. The nice thing about QuickTime too is that they have this nice summary of the chapters if you click on the arrow on the right of the time status bar. That was uber handy to find. I have the sneaking suspicion that when I get into actually developing this stuff for real, I may forget a lot of the things I watched. So being able to quickly reference the videos will be a great thing.
Third thing I've found out, is that sleep is really important. Especially when learning stuff from rather dry videos. Don't get me wrong, my geeky mentors are hilarious, but turn on a video, and I seem to have a huge temptation to just kinda drop off for a little while. Perhaps that's like, my brain stating that it's learning a lot and wants a break for a bit. At any rate, sleep is good, and I ought to take advantage of it.
Fourth thing? You know the Dad in Tron: Legacy? WELL he was the original actor in the first Tron!!!! Is that sweet or what? So Kevin Flynn in Tron is Kevin Flynn in Tron: Legacy! And Sam Flynn is still adorable. And the soundtrack is amazing. And the movie is amazing. And I think it's the coolest thing ever to be able to learn more about computers and have a movie that actually makes geekiness uber cool. Oh, and Allen, the guy who talks to Sam and is Kevin's friend, he was originally Tron in the first one, which I also thought was cool, because Kevin referenced Allen as the creator of Tron.
Oh, and the fourth thing is totally important. ;) This is a result of me staying up late. But I wanted to wrap all that up, it helps to write down what I learn so I don't have to relearn the next day.
1.04.2011
On a ROLL!
Okay so today I got an email from my boss asking me to bring my laptop along so I could get some howto Drupal videos on it. I figured it'd be a good thing to have Drupal installed on my Windows machine too.
That was a whole different banana... haha
So my biggest problem with Linux is that I had to keep giving MYSELF permission to access all the files, right? I mean, besides the other problems... and this time, I was thinking HURRAH I won't have any permissions to worry about!
I went to this site for step by step: http://drupal.org/node/307956
So I copied the drupal files over to htdocs in XAMPP and tried to open up phpmyadmin, and got this error:
#2003 - Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)Back to Google! After some research, I figured out the problem is with the Antivirus software blocking XAMPP. Fabulous. I fixed those settings, and it seems to be doing alright so far!
Dontcha just LOOOOOVE when the computer tells you what to do?
Virus Protection: "NO YOU CAN'T OPEN XAMPP IT'S NOT APPROOOOOOVED!"
Me: "Uh, yeah I can. I opened it."
Virus Protection: "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING! YOU'LL RUIN EVERYTHING!"
Me: "Whatever."
I like Linux. Linux lets you do whatever. Just don't type in rm -f *.* and you're golden. ;)
Hey, speaking of Linux, check out this awesome list of cool commands! http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/linuxcommands.html
It's done. XDD That was much better than yesterday, I think it would've been good on MICK too instead of my laptop. I'm going to start playing with Drupal now, so have a great day, and if something earth shaking or whatever happens, I'll blog about it. :D
1.03.2011
Drupal? Finally? AKA ADVENTURES Part 2!
So I have XAMPP, or LAMPP 'cuz it's for my Linux. Good ol' MICK, I love my compy. Anyways, what I did next is following this video:
However, I'm modifying it slightly, because I didn't want WAMP, I wanted XAMPP. So far I've done it with exactly the same results. I'll type if I run into a snag.
WOOO created a database! Ooooh wow, this is sooo cool...
kk, ran into a few snags. The file didn't recognize that I was the root, so I couldn't get in to move the drupal files into the place I wanted it. So I got in and changed permissions, but it didn't recognize me as an owner, even if I did have permissions. So I used chown on it to give my username power to modify the LAMPP files. I might need to log out and log in again, hang on... Nope, I needed to changed the permissions lower down. Man, this is all connected so amazingly... wow.
Okay, got the permission changed, and I dropped Drupal into it. Yehaw! Now I wait to see what I'm supposed to do next...
Goodness, that was a TRIP! Drupal is now installed, and tomorrow I think I'll start playing around with it. What did I learn today? Oh, a heck of a lot.
1. Permissions. They're EVERYTHING with Linux. So when Mr Bravo made us play with them so much in our Linux class, there was actually a really important point to it.
2. That would've been better to know before I started out installing XAMPP and Drupal
3. But it's okay, 'cuz I know now.
4. Documentation is rocking awesome! Now I can review this! YEAH!
5. Ahh, sweet success. You just can't beat the feeling of successfully installing something using a Linux terminal. And also the GUI stuff. I just love it when things work.
6. Like I said in the previous post, know where the chocolate is.
7. Google is your best friend. So is sudo su.
Okay, got the permission changed, and I dropped Drupal into it. Yehaw! Now I wait to see what I'm supposed to do next...
Goodness, that was a TRIP! Drupal is now installed, and tomorrow I think I'll start playing around with it. What did I learn today? Oh, a heck of a lot.
1. Permissions. They're EVERYTHING with Linux. So when Mr Bravo made us play with them so much in our Linux class, there was actually a really important point to it.
2. That would've been better to know before I started out installing XAMPP and Drupal
3. But it's okay, 'cuz I know now.
4. Documentation is rocking awesome! Now I can review this! YEAH!
5. Ahh, sweet success. You just can't beat the feeling of successfully installing something using a Linux terminal. And also the GUI stuff. I just love it when things work.
6. Like I said in the previous post, know where the chocolate is.
7. Google is your best friend. So is sudo su.
Adventures in Drupal! Just kidding... ADVENTURES Part 1!
So I'm learning about Drupal, it's "open source social publishing software that empowers individuals, teams, and communities to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website."
Good to know, right? I know you've been waiting your whole life to discover that. I'm giving you a blow by blow as I learn about it. Why? Because this blog is a wonderful tool to help me remember what on EARTH I get up to in the cyber world, and I don't want to forget. Right now, I'm doing something I haven't done since PRG 223 or something like unto that, I'm installing XAMPP for Linux on my Linux machine. Drupal runs on XAMPP or WAMP if you're trying to run in locally. And I'd definitely recommend playing with it locally first. Blowing up a website = not that much fun.
XAMPP for Linux was formerly known as LAMPP. Now with that info, it's finally finished downloading, and time for me to play with the terminal. I'm going off of http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#374 for my instructions.
Well, what a peach. I think I forgot my sudo login. Excellent, especially since I seem to be needing that... Now I have to reboot into recovery mode and reset that... I hope my compy doesn't get wiped and stuff, that would really be fun. ;)
Rebooted, didn't get it, moved on, hung around the Linux forums, found this wonderful person who said:
Good to know, right? I know you've been waiting your whole life to discover that. I'm giving you a blow by blow as I learn about it. Why? Because this blog is a wonderful tool to help me remember what on EARTH I get up to in the cyber world, and I don't want to forget. Right now, I'm doing something I haven't done since PRG 223 or something like unto that, I'm installing XAMPP for Linux on my Linux machine. Drupal runs on XAMPP or WAMP if you're trying to run in locally. And I'd definitely recommend playing with it locally first. Blowing up a website = not that much fun.
XAMPP for Linux was formerly known as LAMPP. Now with that info, it's finally finished downloading, and time for me to play with the terminal. I'm going off of http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#374 for my instructions.
Well, what a peach. I think I forgot my sudo login. Excellent, especially since I seem to be needing that... Now I have to reboot into recovery mode and reset that... I hope my compy doesn't get wiped and stuff, that would really be fun. ;)
Rebooted, didn't get it, moved on, hung around the Linux forums, found this wonderful person who said:
You do not need to be in single user mode.
It is much MUCH simpler to reset this, I will tell you how.
Open a terminal program (command line, X terminal, whatever you want.)
type:
sudo su
You know are acting as 'root' of your system.
now type:
passwd
it will say: "Now changing password for root" or whatever. Just follow your computer's directions from here.
This person I now love. Because it worked. NOW let's see if we can install LAMPP
Okay, we need to be in the Downloads directory. And remember, this is all case sensitive.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remember folks, in situations where things aren't quite going the way they should, keep a cool head and remember where the nearest chocolate source is.
Beautiful, it passed. I have XAMPP for Linux on my machine. JOY AND CELEBRATION!!!!! NOW I CAN PLAY WITH DRUPAL!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I'm posting this as part 1. Next up we'll play with Drupal!
Oh, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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