So this weekend I finally decided to get my hands dirty and try to learn how to administer Apache, understand PHP, and (hopefully by virtue of the previous things), figure out how WordPress actually works. Phew, it was a long weekend.
I started out by redoing the Fedora Eclipse website, because it badly needed an overhaul. It’s not completely finished yet, but I moved it to pure XHTML/CSS from a table, I also seperated it out into sections so that we can actuallly add meaningful content. Here, take a look at my current permutation. You might notice that it looks awfully similar to the old one. That’s because my CSS skills aren’t that amazing yet to come up with a new design.
After that I read/skimmed about half an Apache book. Most of it obviously went over my head :). But I finally figured out what and how mod_rewrite works. Yay for obfuscation! After that I read the PHP manual, which was pretty informative. I gotta say that I’m very impressed with PHP, it’s super simple, it’s expressive, and it’s got a lot of very nice modules. Impressive, to say the least. On a side note, looking at OO in PHP5 was almost indistinguishable from looking at Java, except for a few very minor details. I guess all programming languages are slowly but surely converging to The One True Java.
My head was kinda spinning towards midday Sunday from information overdose. Especially given the fact I also have a cold. But I managed to dig through WordPress documentation and figure out why my about me page displayed weird PHP errors when accessed. Even better, I fixed it. So there, I accomplished something useful.
And now, to sleep.
*zzzzz*
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