This next week I’ll be packing up my bags and traveling up to Charlotte, North Carolina for the annual Southeast Linux Fest. This will be my second time attending; I have high hopes since last year was such a blast!
Update: Here are some pictures from SELF
Over the past couple of months I’ve gained a lot of experience with PHP as well as page design with CSS. I’ve spent time working on my test website discuss.nathancheek.com as well as working on the messaging part of Andy Y.’s Dropbox Forums extension.
I recently purchased a Nexus 5 from Google. I had a small script notify me when the red version came in stock on their website, so I was able to grab one before they sold out again. The site said it would be 2-3 weeks before shipping, so I was rather surprised to see that it shipped out that day. A little bit after it arrived, I installed CyanogenMod and also got it to dual boot Ubuntu Touch.
For a while, Twitter has offered an archive service. This is useful for keeping a backup of your tweets, but that’s exactly where it begins and ends. In fact it doesn’t even save photos in tweets so you are left with a very barebones archive. For a while I had wished for a better solution, something that could save every aspect about my Twitter account. I would like to be able to see who all my followers were, as well as who I was following at a point in time. I searched around online but couldn’t find a good solution to this. This weekend, I decided to build my own.
For the past several days I’ve been working on a website for fun. You can check out what I have so far at http://discuss.nathancheek.com. I have never done much with web programming other than simple static websites so this is my first such project. It was supposed to be a simple discussion website, but it has turned into quite the project for me. My programming language of choice for this project has been PHP which has been mostly straightforward. However I have definitely learned a whole lot of things in the past couple of days. Here are some of the things I’ve learned so far.