{"id":1427,"date":"2010-03-08T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2010-03-08T10:42:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T18:42:53","slug":"quads-sore-ajax-js-php-to-be-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/03\/08\/quads-sore-ajax-js-php-to-be-continued\/","title":{"rendered":"Quads sore. Ajax, JS, PHP to be continued."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still sore; meaning, my quadriceps are screaming for stretching and all that jazz to free it from its bonds of tightness\u00a0 (or something like that). I used The Stick<\/a> today and rolled it over my aching muscles. I think the last time I used it was, er, I can’t even remember the last time I used it! >_< Gonna do some P90X stretching today, too.<\/p>\n

In other news, I really need (as in, FOR REAL this time) to learn Ajax, JavaScript and PHP. I’ve been talking (mostly to myself and sometimes, with actual people) about learning these technologies but I haven’t really gotten too far. The closest I got to starting was creating a “Hello World” page in PHP and something similar in JavaScript ages<\/em> ago. Fast forward to today and I really haven’t anything to show for it! I can train for long distance races for weeks-on-end but I can’t train my mind to write (Java)scripts!<\/p>\n

As 43things.com<\/a> keeps nagging me about the 8 silly things I want to do (#2, #3 and #7 in particular are to learn JavaScript, learn SQL, and learn PHP respectively), all I do when I receive the reminder emails is to delete them \ud83d\ude41 But NOT today! I am finally going to use this book which Amanda<\/a> hath given me and will put “Sams Teach Yourself Ajax, JavaScript and PHP” to good use (amongst the other “Sams Teach Yourself” books I have been bequeathed several Christmases ago)!<\/p>\n

And<\/em> rather than just do silly scripts (e.g., Hello World) that will never see the light of day, I am working towards having a fully functional website by, er, let’s give myself um… UGH. I can’t even decide on the deadline. >_<<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s a realistic deadline to learn 3 “technologies” from the ground up? 30 days? 60 days? 6 months? 1 year? LOL. HALP<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

BRB whilst I figure out the deadline. >_<<\/span><\/p>\n

Alrighty. Soz about that. With the help of some cool peeps<\/a>, I am giving myself THIRTY <\/strong>days (30) to learn the basics of Ajax, JavaScript and PHP. After that milestone, I will give myself another two months to learn the even more complex functions\/technologies within said applications whilst working towards the Bearuu Project<\/a>. Then, giving myself another two months to really be really comfortable working with it. I’m hoping by the sixth <\/strong>month, I would have a fully-functional website where I have incorporated what I have learned and then some. It’s a lofty goal, but I either crash and burn or succeed (mostly leaning towards the latter!)<\/p>\n

I wish I can dedicate 24-hours-a-day to learning, but alas, life (i.e., and the stuff that you need to do in order to keep living) continues. I am pledging to dedicate at least three to four hours daily* of what I’d normally do for recreational activities (i.e., telly, social networking, scanning the forums, MW2 on PS3, etc.) into learning. That being said, good-bye DVR of the shows, I’ll limit reading\/sending tweets and the # of forums I visit, will put my campaign on MW2 on hold until I can produce something worthy of what a web programmer can probably churn out in ten minutes. >_<<\/p>\n

Wish me luck! ^_^<\/p>\n

*perhaps more (but not less!), depending on my other project timetables<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m still sore; meaning, my quadriceps are screaming for stretching and all that jazz to free it from its bonds of tightness\u00a0 (or something like that). I used The Stick today and rolled it over my aching muscles. I think the last time I used it was, er, I can’t even remember the last time read more »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[150,4,3],"tags":[154,532,153,152,151],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1429,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}