Or should that be part 1, extract 1, day 1?
The email arrived today with details on how to download the BBC iMP player, details of which can hopefully be found on the BBC site.
To begin with I wasn’t even sure that I could use the thing, as it states that the only supported Operating systems are WinXP and W2K, I am still using a rather dated Win98SE. But as luck would ave it, it installed with no problem.
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I’ve recently written a Content Management System. That part was fairly easy (well maybe not that easy), the hard part comes when I try and write a series of help pages for it. Why should I? I know it works, I know how to use it, and it looks as simple as pie to me!
Obviously anyone else would look at it and go ‘huh?’. I know something is needed, but it isn’t easy trying to write something that will help others. I have to take regular breaks as I find it extremely tiresome. I find this more difficult to do than the coding itself!
Then of course you realise just how much of it needs explaining… the help pages end up being larger than the scripts!
Why can’t everyone just ‘know’ things straight away, would be sooo much easier 🙂
An interesting article on this subject has recently been posted on the Spider Trax site. Well worth a read!
There are times when things come together nicely. I think today was one of those. I have hopefully finished a set of scripts to send out a newsletter, text only of course.
This is a slimmed down much improved version of the simple php newsletter available on Quirm.net and I virtually started from scratch with it, just utilising the better parts of the original scripts. It is now meaner and leaner!
Though working through a migraine to get things done isn’t always the best thing to do.
I hate PHP form processing, I really hate php form processing.
I am currently adapting a form creater and processor, and I am beginning to really hate forms. Though I am learning a whole lot about how to write an if statement, or two (or fifty…).
My only satisfaction being that once finished I don’t have to worry about creating forms for people in the future. They can go and ****** well do it themselves.
When writing php scripts and using sessions remember you have to start them in all files, including those you include in the script…
Remembering that would have saved me a little bit of time today!
Maybe one day I’ll learn to write code properly as opposed to muddling along like I do at the moment.
