GravityFX Programming Blog

Today was interesting day for me, I meat classic piano player on craigslist who would of thought. I think every intelligent programmer should listen to classical music. It helps you open your mind to new possibilities and ideas. At least that what I think. I do like all sorts of music, but classical and jazz are two of my favorites. I’ve also enjoyed Groove Salad – a nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves for a while now. This kind of music helps me think, especially when I code or write something. I know I said I will try write diary posts daily, but sometimes real life gets in the way. So I will try my best, to at least write 3 posts a week. I hope you guys enjoy this diary posts of mine, any comments or suggestions in comments are always welcome.

This is my first diary blog post ever in my life. I never tried writing any personal diaries, but now I kind of interested to share my experiences in life with other people in the world. I hope you will find this blog useful and enjoy reading it. I will try to do my best and blog daily here, about my programming journey. I’m 26 years old programmer from USA, originally came from Ukraine back in 1995. When I came over to USA I did not know English and it was though for me here. So when I got my first computer I really enjoyed it. I like any other computer guy started with games, dos games and windows games. Then I started to get bored and wanted to learn something more. So I turned to BATCH programming in dos. Then I was introduced to VB6 in school, I started to enjoy coding very much I did it day and night. Then VB.NET came out, and I needed to learn it. Ones I hit the wall and VB started to be too slow for me, I started to look for other programming languages. That when I started to learn HTML. After a while XHTML/CSS. It was so easy for me to learn that I wanted to learn more, I started to learn PHP and MySQL while switching to Ubuntu Linux from Windows as my main os. I found windows to be useless for what I needed my computer to do. So I found another world of linux. That when I started to feel like I’m really home. Currently I’m coding because, I not only like doing it but because I desperately looking for a job. So ones I learn PHP enough, I can compete in Freelancer world of coders.

Projects I’m Currently Coding
– Classifieds Script based on CodeIgniter.
– Perfect Privacy Web Site Design.

Hey guys, I’m coding new php script that will have about 129 comic strips that you can read daily. This script will be used exclusively on this website (it won’t be released to the public). But it will be very easy to navigate and customize. You will be able to pre-set your favorite comic strips for daily reading *this feature will be added later do*. I’m excited to code this, this is the biggest comics related script I’m coding since ComiX software which is based on VB.NET. This comics script will be based on PHP, and will be integrated right into this blog. I’m coding it also in such flexible way that I can add virtually any comic strip later. So adding comic strips requests will be accepted ones the script is complete. See beta here, http://gravityfx.org/comics/ Now updated :-)

I’ve updated multiple parts of the blog. About, Services and Project pages is the most noticeable parts. I’ve re-enabled comments with admin approval for now to combat all the spam. Also enabled akismet spam filter plugin and comments pagination for easier navigation in the future. Installed OpenID plugin for blog authentication. Blog registrations now open, but not necessary. You can comment with OpenID. FIXED Redirection plugin issue, sorry for that guys. Removed MyBB forum, useless and bulky. Will use FluxBB with integration into wordpress later. Added new page called MyIP, you can check your ip address info here http://gravityfx.org/myip/ Enabled blog cache, should be faster load times now.

This works with latest WordPress 3 to customize login page do the following.

I’ve created a page dedicated to resources I find online. To start with I’ve posted all the direct download links to CodeIgniter videos and source code. Big thank you to NetTuts+ guys that create this intuitive videos that teaches so many people including me. Check out the “Resources” page here. Also, don’t forget to check out NetTuts+ premium services as well.