<!--200930,201031--> <h1>august 2020: new server, new site</h1> september 1, 2020<br> #apache #css #html #nginx #php #server #website<br> <br> <h2>tuesday, august 4 </h2> <ul> <li>CentOS VPS obtained through OVH. Always wanted a server. </li> </ul> <br> <h2>wednesday, august 5 </h2> <ul> <li>design the website </li> <li>prototype of website running on the server </li> </ul> <br> <h2>thursday, august 6 </h2> <ul> <li>create some placeholder graphics, articles + CSS </li> <li>add a <a href="https://publish.twitter.com/#">Twitter timeline embed</a> </li> </ul> <br> <h2>friday, august 7 </h2> <ul> <li>decide to use PHP for manage blessfrey's blog </li> <li>set up a local Apache server for practice. It was a little confusing! </li> <li>wrote a vaguely functioning Hello World script in PHP </li> </ul> <br> <h2>saturday, august 8 </h2> <ul> <li>added images to live site despite conflicts with Linux's security </li> </ul> <br> <h2>sunday, august 9 </h2> <ul> <li>studied PHP with <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_intro.asp">W3Schools</a> </li> </ul> <br> <h2>monday, august 10 </h2> <ul> <li>studied PHP with <a href="https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_intro.asp">W3Schools</a> </li> </ul> <br> <h2>saturday, august 15 </h2> <ul> <li>Made a Python script that spits out new skill scenes for Godot after answering a little command line questionnaire. I could make it an plugin for the engine, but it would be a lot slower to develop + functionally no better. </li> <li>Maybe I can rewrite it later in JSON, since Godot can read JSON. </li> </ul> <br> <h2>monday, august 17 </h2> <ul> <li>Research PHP + MySQL while attending. I think MySQL is overkill for my purposes, since all my articles couldn't possibly be that much data. It might be interesting for analyzing data, though, like adding a word cloud of the most common tags or a search feature. I'll keep things simple for now. </li> </ul> <br> <h2>august 18 - august 21 </h2> <ul> <li>Help run a FlightRising community event while trying out ArcheAge, since my friends play it. </li> <li>I told a friend I would play Go with him soon but was too busy with the raffle. Then someone told him I was online a lot in ArcheAge...oops...that looked bad lol. It wasn't like I played more than a few minutes at a time. I'm sorry, friend;; </li> <li>finally get access to the code for an MMO some friends work on. I start familiarizing myself with the code and start planning my new feature. </li> </ul> <br> <h2>saturday, august 22 </h2> <ul> <li>I work on pagination. The concept boggles my mind, but I can break it into pieces to solve like any other problem. </li> </ul> <br> <h2>sunday, august 23 </h2> <ul> <li>I work on my friends' MMO more. I make my own branch and make my first changes. The work environment is Windows-only, and the server is live with active players. Pretty cool experience. </li> </ul> <br> <h2>monday, august 24 </h2> <ul> <li>Still working on pagination in PHP to create a navigation bar for my development blog. </li> </ul> <br> <h2>tuesday, august 25 </h2> <ul> <li>Play around with CSS + HTML for the website. The CSS Grid didn't exist the last time I used CSS (for 2000s petsite profiles), so I'm more comfortable with floats. The Grid looks so worth learning, though, for more consistent and responsive web design. </li> </ul> <br> <h2>wednesday, august 26 </h2> <ul> <li>Get the landing page looking okay while using the CSS Grid. </li> </ul> <br>