These last few months have been tremendously busy for me, mostly with the workload of school projects and assignments, but it’s been largely enjoyable which is probably why it seems to have passed so quickly. I haven’t neglected writing, although most of my blogging juice has been spent on writing for a blog for one [...]
It’s the end of the recess week already, and I find myself entrenched in a backlog of self-revision. A common pattern has emerged this semester with respect to my homework management, and it’s not so much the fault of procrastination as it is the waning interest that I have in my modules. I guess my [...]
I found some time over the last week to rebuild WebsiteDB, my first PHP/MySQL project. The original site was very simple and quite poorly coded in my opinion, so I decided to redevelop it and include additional features in the process, such as account creation (for anyone remotely interested in using it) and also a [...]
I’ve been spending the greater part of the past three weeks building a site as part of my internship under Avant Global. The internship is over, but I’ve been commissioned to carry on developing it until it’s ready for launch. That time is soon, I hope, as school is set on the runway about to [...]
As I previously anticipated, MySQL has proven to be a difficult language to learn. I’ve familiarised myself with most of the basic commands used to create and modify databases and tables, along with carrying out simple SELECT queries to retrieve data. I followed the examples provided in the book and I was honestly quite alarmed [...]
I just downloaded the soft copy of this book from SitePoint, and it’s being given away for free for only two weeks. I’ve never formally learnt CSS, nor can I remember how I picked it up, but nonetheless it’s a powerful tool for web design. I’m definitely looking forward to starting on this book once [...]
I had quite a fancy for grunge designs since a few years back, similar to the kind of art found in Linkin Park’s albums. Such design did influence me to a certain extent, and was reflected in areas of my life like fashion and clothing. I suppose that liking could have been considered part of the [...]