London Traffic
Aug 10th
On Sunday we went to Wembley for the Community Shield final, and made fantastic timing getting close. We decided to complete the last 9 miles of the journey after a bite to eat – a part of the journey which turned out would take over an hour! We then struggled to get parked anywhere, so I had to take the plunge and pull out £30 for the official Wembley car park – absolutely disgusting that they charge this amount, but it’s secured which can’t be a bad thing in a strange place.
Cue the end of the game, and we know its going to be trouble getting away, so we wait until 18:00 to leave – over an hour after the game finished. We couldn’t believe it when it was still at stand still, and I still believe we’d be there now if I hadn’t found a way out using back streets and alleys.
Overall, Wembley was fantastic. Getting there and back though was a whole different story!
First Camping Expedition!
Jul 30th
Okay, so it’s not really an expedition, but a two night stop over will do me just as well! Me and the missus have recently invested in a fair amount of camping gear, and we need to try it out before our big trip to Cornwall next week. The missus is packing the bags now as I write this – I’m sooo excited!
Just gotta stop at the shop and top up on pop beer on the way home!
Where to Start…… Again!
Jul 20th
I have a project ongoing – something written in PHP. The thing is, I always come to a cross roads when I start a new PHP project. Do I write a component for Joomla!? Maybe a plugin for WordPress? Perhaps I should write the whole thing from the ground up? It’s all very annoying that I can’t choose. I love the modular approach that Joomla! provides, but it’s all a bit confusing at times. I like the templates that are readily available for WordPress, but is a blogging system appropriate for this project. I like how I know exactly how my own applications fit together, from <head> right up to </head>, but can I really be bothered to reinvent the wheel for areas such as user logon and forums!
The most annoying thing is the code I need has been produced by me already. It works an absolute treat. I just need to decide whether to code the rest around it, implement it into a Joomla! component, or transfer it to a WordPress plugin. I’ll make my mind up eventually, but known me I will probably do it all three ways!