Computers
Sometimes it's a stupid thing that can hang you up. So, I'm blowing off the cobwebs on my javascript skills by going through Murach's "Javascript and DOM Scripting" (2010) book, and I can feel the skills sharpening. Then I go to the first simple exercise - and it's simple enough (very simple actually!). BTW - I'm using Notepad++ with the autocompletion. I type in an alert method to display upon loading. I'm digging the notepad autocompletion feature, and I type in window.onl (and click enter when the onLoad event displays for autocompletion). Simple enough, eh? So's I drag my mouse to open up the file in Mozilla - what? no alert!? I go to IE 8 - and nothing. WTF?! I go digging online - can't find nothing...wait a minute! JS is case sensitive...I change onLoad to onload & voila! It works. When events are members of an object, they should be lowercase. D'uh!!! This is one case autocompletion in notepad++ hung me up for a bit...now I know.
Oh yeh, I should also mention I really like the setup of the Murach book. Excellent!
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Web Site
I am wanting to get back into web development, programming, database game asap. This is what I went back to school for - this is the field I made the most money at - this is the field I can plug away at past 65 (easy on the body) - this is the field I enjoy most. To do this, I need to build up a portfolio, and I finally decided I need to start by getting my own web site up and running. I've started working on it, but won't put it up until I'm satisfied with it. First one, will be a combo of personal (music & poetry), business (a web design page) & hopefully I'll also get this blog inserted into it. Eventually, I'll want to separate the 2 web sites (personal & business), but man, I realize I got get the motherfucker up!!!
Back to the JS book.
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I haven't forgotten about my fav artists, and will soon work on The B's! That was fun.
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computer follow up
got the mofo working!!!! turns out i needed to copy the .htaccess & index.php files to the root folder...i had them in my wordpress folder (1 folder under the root) and thought i had the settings pointing to the right place...but...obviously not, cause copying these files to the root (../htdocs/) did the trick! Yeeha!!! now i can properly learn wordpress!!!
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music
this is cool -- listening to a really rough recording of The Yardbirds live from 1968: "Last Rave Up with The Yardbirds (link)" and it's...rough, but you can tell it was a pretty hot show..."Dazed and Confused" sounded a lot like Zep's future versions, and then the next song started and I thought:
"What the hell - that sounds like I'm Waiting for my Man!' - i'll be damned - it is! The Yardbirds covering The Velvet Underground back in 1968...never heard of this - interesting...& it sounded good too!!
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what else have i been listening too??
right now? right now! I am absolutely grooving on White Heaven's "Out" (1991). Definitely inspired by The Stooges...and I'm sure Les Rallizes...I love desperate rock'n'roll...ya know...ya have to rock or...you got nothing to live for! Another classic from Tokyo...if you haven't you should check out the "Tokyo Flashback (link)" series...that's where I first heard of these guys.
I am digging Devo's "Hardcore, vol. 1 & 2" - demos from the men in yellow. These songs are way more sinister lyrically (& experimental) than the albums.What is it about demos? Demos capture that original inspiration, before you start editing it for (mass) consumption...there's an innocence and purity about demos that can't be caught in a "real" studio.
...and now, the original Pebbles series (volume 1, no less) is next up on the mp3 player. Gotta love the energy!!!
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odds and ends odds and ends
Bah and I went to Spirit Lake today for the first time in ages and it was great - sun shining, beautiful scenery, my harmonica...and listening to Status Quo "Never Too Late" (1981) of all things. Thoroughly enjoyed the bastard too!!...these guys are so consistent (ie. not taking chances) that it's sorta admirable. This is from 81 but punk might as well have not happened...they still cover Chuck Berry - and so they should! I can imagine the studio dialogue:
"dude, we need a slow song here"
"slow the beat by 1/8th."
"dude, we need a fast song now."
"speed the beat by 1/8th."
"cool, dude!"
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the mind has been exploding ideas lately, but i've been having trouble collecting up the rubble and piecing it all together....
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RIP Trouble...I miss you.
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Computer Issue --- Irritation = Frustration
OK...here's my sad stupid story that changing one line in a setting file (either php.ini, httpd.conf, .htaccess or index.php) will probably make work...
- Apache Server installed on C:/Program Files (x86)/ and works. It works!
- PHP 5.2.13 installed, working and talking to apache...
- MySQL (mysql-essential-5.1.49-winx64.msi - since I have 64-bit windows 7) installed, working and script showed that all 3 are working and communicating with each other.
- phpmyadmin 3.3.4 installed...works (the only issue is this warning: "Your PHP MySQL library version 5.0.51a differs from your MySQL server version 5.1.49. This may cause unpredictable behavior" - I believe it's from my php having an older libmysql.dll than the current version of mysql - don't think this would cause a problem).
- OK so far
- So I want to get wordpress on my local server to work on development and learning without paying a hosting fee...this is supposed to be trivial.
- I install wordpress...I can log in...I get to the dashboard...I can create posts - do basically anything in the dashboard...
- BUT
- the only thing not working is that when I click "View Post" I get this error message in the apache error log:
- [Sun Aug 29 10:04:36 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: require(./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\wordpress\\index.php on line 17, referer: http://localhost/wordpress/2010/08/29/testing-4/
- [Sun Aug 29 10:04:36 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required './wordpress/wp-blog-header.php' (include_path='.;C:\\php\\pear') in C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Apache Software Foundation\\Apache2.2\\htdocs\\wordpress\\index.php on line 17, referer: http://localhost/wordpress/2010/08/29/testing-4/
- Now I check these paths, and they exist (as far as I can tell!)...this is what's on line 17:
require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php'); I've tried different variations on the path and get the same result.
I go to phpmyadmin and check the wordpress database, and the posts exist - they are there! But they won't show!!! Which makes learning and development rather difficult!
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I have spent far too much time on this and seem to be getting nowhere...I guess I'll have to reinstall everything (apache, php, mysql, phpmyadmin, wordpress) and try again...but, I've done this already a few times and this is the furthest I've gone yet, and it seems it's a path error in a setting somewhere...which should do the trick...
I've only gotten back into the computing world the past couple of months after a couple of years not doing much -- and I'm LOVING IT!!! But, man it can be frustrating! If anyone has any help I'll kiss you all over!! (or not)...
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