OK, so maybe that doesn’t seem so very creative, but anything that helps me get the work I need to done is a good thing. And then I wrote about it (tried to blog it but Blogger crashed. What a surprise) which is both creative and helpful to others who may be struggling.
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Made a hefty start on the first forms for the super-secret web project djeli and I are working on. Once the form was done, I pulled out my jQuery reference and tinkered until I had a field that auto-filled in as you fill in another field and which cuts off the auto-fill once you edit it so it doesn’t match any more. A little complicated to explain, but huge fun to get working, and will be useful, I think.
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Of course there are other things I want to go through and finesse, but this should be enough to show it to the world now at least. Yay! Only taken about 5 months!
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Practicing the syntax I’d learnt reading my book on the train. Seems to work 
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My first day off in 2 weeks, the sun was shining and the sky was blue, so I took myself into town to buy computer books and came away with two O’Reilly volumes: Learning MySQL and PHP in a Nutshell. Really looking forward to reading these and starting to apply them in my new and still slightly secret projects.
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Now I just need my friends to join up from the invitations I sent them… waiting, waiting, waiting *sigh*
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My first wiki! I’ve been meaning to do this for a while – my ex-boss came up with a grand idea that we’ve been talking about implementing for about 3-4 years now, but we’ve never got around to it, so I thought it might be good if I and some of my geek-friends started at least compiling some content for it, so that when we get around to doing something proper with it, at least it won’t be empty! It’s been quite a learning curve, setting up the wiki, but the wiki farm I’ve chosen (wikidot.org) has a fabulous range of options, including a full forum and post comments, is fully skinnable AND FREE! Gosh how I love opensource. Such a good package this one – if you’re looking for a full-featured wiki without ads and don’t mind not having a WYSIWYG interface, definitely check it out. And as a bonus, it produces beautiful, valid markup behind the scenes.
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I’ve been reading the O’Reilly Adding Ajax book, which has been really clear and easy to follow, but finally I found the time to actually get my hands dirty with some code and yay! XMLHttpRequest working for me!
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At least, it seems that way. Huzzah! And my first time using ActionScript 2, too!
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She was having some trouble with an MP3 player made in Flash which wasn’t behaving, so I tinkered about in the code a bit, hunting for the reason.
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