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Sherri commented, “I’m really curious about Drupal and a little confused with how you will use it with your website.” It occurs to me that perhaps I have been mumbling a little too incoherently of late, so let me try to explain what Drupal is: Drupal is a content management system, meaning roughly that it’s [...]
This weaving study group is turning out even better than I thought it would! We’re getting eight or ten messages per day back and forth, most full of interesting observations that take considerable thought to fully absorb (remember, I’m a novice weaver). It’s a real challenge and going to be more so as I try [...]
I’m really pleased with how this online weaving study group (working through Exploring Multishaft Design) is going. One of the members is also a mathematician, and posed the interesting question, “How many distinct twills can you get on n shafts?” I thought about this a bit and realized that this is basically equivalent to a [...]
Finished the section on PHP and have moved into the databases/MySQL section (page 200 or thereabouts). I won’t pretend to be an expert on PHP but I do have the basic syntax down and can look up the rest. I expect my early attempts to be frustrating and slow, but you gotta start somewhere. Wove [...]
Well, let’s see: I am now on page 107 (of 946) of the book on PHP and MySQL, which is not quite as bad as it sounds since the last hundred or so pages are appendix and quite a few of the later chapters I can get away with skimming. Nonetheless it is slow going. [...]
