kalin

Why is it so difficult to keep blogging?

It seems like the worth of rambling upon a given topic is too low at most times, and not worth the effort. However, I’m sure blogging provides and requires momentum, thus, it’s time for a new post.

So I’ll be heading to Japan early next year, that should be interesting. There will probably be lots of neat (crazy?) stuff to blog about… it seems like quite a unique place. I’m excited to see the level of tech around, it seems so high, and so much further ahead for mobile computing devices.

It’s interesting to think that Japan after WW2 was in the sort of position that China is in now, being a source of cheap labour for other countries. After seeing how Japan has progressed to now, I wonder where China will be in the next 50 years. A country the size of China, with a rate of advancement like that of modern Japan would be pretty enormous in the scale of things. Huge amounts of awesome research and technology progress, moving us humans towards redundancy much faster. Fun times!

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Well, now that a blog is up and running, it would seem the appropriate thing to do is to write a post.

Wordpress software seems pretty nice, the post editor reminds me of the zoho editor.

So studying php is interesting; the language is quite simple and allows fast development, but I’m sure the horrors of php code written by novices is far worse than other languages. The language is not very solid, and it seems very special-case’ish in it’s handling of everything, for example: array(...)[key] is not valid — array(...) is not really a proper expression as it would be in other languages. Ack. I wonder how much value there is in just hacking things up in php, rather than following more correct software development procedures.

The wordpress interface allows you to edit posts in a ‘visual’ mode. It seems a little dodgy, for example, if you put a link, it gets the cursor stuck within the contents of the anchor tag. Writing code to handle style chunks like that in an editor is quite tricky. I once did something similar in Fury — how do you determine where a cursor is sitting, between two blocks of ’styles’ which contain no text? It is not really feasible to allow editing with such free style blocks, there is no way for a user to manipulate the cursor across those boundaries.