Well, 2009 has come and gone and what a year it was. I’ve just been reading the first post I wrote in 2008 and the things I said I wanted to do, and I can comfortably say I accomplished most of them 🙂 This post is kind of a reflection and recap and a look ahead for the Coding Pad. Continue reading “Looking Back at 2009 and Forward into 2010”
Category: Blog News
Introducing Mary’s Corner
Recently I was approached by the good folks at HostColor, a Web Hosting company that is a gold sponsor of MODx CMS, to write for a new column on their blog. So now I am a contributor over at the HostColor Blog, and you can find my articles in my column “Mary’s Corner“.
Quick Update and a Question
Just a quick post to say hello, I’m still here, still alive. Been very busy with school and work but it’s all good. I’m sorry it’s been so long since the last post, but I haven’t really had the time or energy to put up a substantial tutorial or screencast. I have been monitoring the comments though and replying as frequently as I can. I have also replied to all emails so far.
I have some ideas and plans on tutorials and screencasts for when I have some time to spare. One thing that I’m debating about is doing a written tutorial on how to update a website from MODx 0.9.6.3 to MODx 1.0. Some people have written and said they’ve not been able to view the screencast due to bandwidth issues so I’m wondering if it’s worth it writing a tutorial to accompany the screencast. Ofcourse I would be updating a totally different site, maybe the Learn MODx site we’ve been building? Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions?
I also have a few more tutorials to write to complete both the Drupal and MODx beginner sets.
I’ve been playing around with a few PHP frameworks, trying to extend my boundaries and move out of my comfort zone, so you may see some tutorials coming out in that area depending on what frameworks I end up deciding to work with. For the longest time I was going with the Zend framework but at the moment it seems like overkill to me for my needs, but who knows, I haven’t made my mind up yet 🙂
That’s it for now!! If you enjoy these tutorials, please consider making a donation (button at top right), or just saying a quick thank you, it helps keep me going 🙂
Need to Subscribe to Comments?
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Updates
I know it’s been a while since I posted a new tutorial on this blog. The long and short of it is that I am finally officially matriculated into my graduate program so things have been rather hectic in my neck of the woods. I just completed my first week of classes and right now I’m trying as hard as I can to keep my head above the water and not get behind and swamped with reading and such. It’s the first week but the program has started with a bang!! It’s definitely going to be a hairy couple of weeks but things should settle down in the next month or so and I should be able to resume posting on a somewhat regular schedule (I hope, really really hope!)
For those who’ve posted comments on different posts and I haven’t replied, again I apologize. I’ll be making some time over the next week to get caught up on the comments and to respond to them. If you’ve emailed me directly with a question I believe I have responded to everyone. If not, please resend your email because I may not have received it.
I have more MODx tutorials in the works as well as Drupal tutorials. My plan is to finish out the beginner series and then delve into more intermediate and advanced stuff, and also just start making general posts on doing different things with MODx and Drupal. I haven’t completely charted out this part of it but I do have several ideas churning around in my mind.
I’m also experimenting with screencasting! 🙂 I’m a very visual learner and find screencasts to be very useful so I’m hoping to overcome my mic-shyness and start posting some screencasts on here soon. I use a PC so any suggestions on programs to use (preferably free) are welcome. So far I’ve experimented with Camstudio and it looks good. But I don’t have a good mic and can’t really think about buying one at the moment, although I do keep checking ebay for good deals.
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