As coders we are lazy

I find now that meet more and more coders we are all driven by a very similar goal.  The main goal that fuels most coders is to be as lazy as possible. This doesn’t mean we don’t try or put effort in but if it came down to it coders in my experience will work smarter and not longer every day. I don’t know if it is just we want to get back to our video games, or beds but if there is a way we can do something cool without needing to continually update or type in every different element the better.

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In my process of learning how to skin Wordpress I have started to learn PHP. This is a series of post that will explain what I stumbled over as a non-coder so you don’t have to.

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So I am not a great coder. But I do love puzzles. I have no formal training all I know is what I have gotten from the web and in books. I am one of those rare people who can read a computer manual and run with it. I have touched a lot of different languages and have mastered none. At my job at Merrick Towle I am sort of the go-to-guy to solve problems and most of the time I don’t know the answer but I am good at looking for them, and I often come back with the problem solved. I am not super smart but I am clever and I often have the attitude that nothing seems too hard to overcome if you break it down to small enough parts. I have designed over a dozen websites, and countless kiosks and have been working in interactive professional now for 2 years.

My first Kiosk was done in Shock wave for my Senior Thesis at University of the Arts. I remember spending hours at Barnes and Noble reading the Director Bible (because I didn’t have the money to buy it and take it home.) As my portfolio I made and RPG using my art during the same year (2001). Now I am working with Flash and Learning AS3. I touch on ASP with my job and now dabble with PHP because of my own site. I love code I don’t know why but it is fun to make things come to life.

This whole section is just a brain dump. Cool things I have learned, Cool thing I have found, or bits of code I think I would love to canibalize later.

I love Tech, and I also love that so much information is all online. For the design of my site I wanted to go for a very clean design that can be modified so the different sections will have a header that will change with the section you are in considering I am going to have multiple threads some all about a single book. So I looking into Conditional Tags in WordPress and I find the Codex files from WordPress.org are very useful.

Here is what I found about the conditional tags that I will use to alter the header of this theme when it is is different sections.

Conditional Tags