HTML – The Woodwork

One thing I’ll always be grateful to my father for was buying me a lifetime Caltech alumni membership on my graduation.

Dear Terry,

We are writing to share news about your Alumni Website. You may have received this email already, and if so, I apologize for the duplicate announcement. For those that have not received it, we are aware that many of our emails are being caught by Spam or getting lost so we want to make sure you are aware of this news.

We are upgrading the SquirrelMail server to Microsoft Office 365. This means that your alumnus.caltech.edu webpage will not transfer and we will no longer be able to host your site. You will need to transfer any photos or documents you wish to keep. The current alumni server will be decommissioned on December 17, 2018.

If you would like to keep your website address, we are able to provide you with a redirect. This will only provide you with a redirect and will not transfer any documents or photos to your new site. Please fill out this form: Alumnus Website Redirect before December 15, 2018. If you do not have a webpage address ready, we can also create one at a later date.

To log in: please go to: https://alumnus.alumni.caltech.edu/wp-admin
Your website is: http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~tychay/

The Caltech Alumni Association has been working diligently to help support a widely inclusive and connected alumni community.
Thank you for your understanding. If you have any questions, please email us at email@alumni.caltech.edu or call us at 626.395.6592.

Thank you,
The Caltech Alumni Association

First of all, wow, we were using a WordPress install for authentication for a CMS? Since when?

Second of all, I had a alumni page? Since when?

Hmm…

&lt;HEAD&gt;
&lt;TITLE&gt;terrychay&lt;/TITLE&gt;
&lt;/HEAD&gt;

&lt;BODY&gt;
&lt;P&gt; My homepages
&lt;OL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pws.uiuc.edu/~tychay/&quot;&gt;Old physics page&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;LI&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://guava.physics.uiuc.edu/~tychay/photo/&quot;&gt;Photo Album&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;LI&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://guava.physics.uiuc.edu/~tychay/swing/&quot;&gt;Swing Society&lt;/a&gt; (site I designed)
&lt;LI&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://phy290p.physics.uiuc.edu/&quot;&gt;Personal Webserver&lt;/a&gt; (intermittent)
&lt;LI&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://game1.zipasia.com/actions/&quot;&gt;Adobe GoLive Actions&lt;/a&gt;  (may be moved)
&lt;LI&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zipasia.com/&quot;&gt;ZipAsia&lt;/a&gt; (current employer)
&lt;LI&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://game1.zipasia.com/&quot;&gt;Zip2Games&lt;/a&gt; (current project)
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I&#039;ll consolidate this sometime. It&#039;ll be so 3leet that it will be 4leet!
&lt;/BODY&gt;

Wow, that’s some old shit. I must have done that over 18 years ago. None of the links there even work. The days when we used to capitalize HTML tags, which is the reason why PHP functions are case insensitive by the way.

I never did get 4leet status by consolidating all my internet sites. They just all went down the memory hole. I think I’m going to let this one go that way also.

: Image via Wikipedia

(Full disclaimer: I work at Automattic and am a speaker at PHP conferences.)

A couple days ago, Gina Trapani posted an interesting article on learning to program.

This reminds me that some people may take the wrong points away in my last article on the subject, the priority shouldn’t be what language you should learn, but rather, what is going to get you motivated to learn. PHP is a popular language because it naturally invites “immersion” style learning, not because it makes a good teaching language—which it doesn’t. That is, assuming the thing you are immersing in is “building a website”. As I like to say:

PHP is the shortest distance between two points on the web.

In the comments, I wrote:

After [the first] chapter, I’d say [PHP and MySQL Development]offers the most “immersion” gratification (at the least cost) than any other language’s textbook. The chapters are easy and by the end of it you have an eStore written and working from scratch. What do you get at the end of the Learning Python book? And how easy was each subsequent chapter? I’d say much less and much harder.

…

[Unfortunately,] it’s that first chapter that does the first timer in.

Continue reading about More about learning web programming after the jump.

The Woodwork

You tell that other boy, not to touch the woodwork

The Woodwork

Tag: HTML

Old alumni page

Learning Programming Part 2: Programming Frameworks