Sensorial’Org

Gallery updates: Maid Cafe, Holiday Hippo, Serenity, and as of today, Crouching Tiger.

I’m in the middle of revamping Signed by V. The renovation includes a new layout, new content and using WordPress+YAPB (the same plugin that’s powering the galleries) as the new backend because I can’t be bothered to write my own CMS.

Even though I already have the gallery plugin functioning on this website, I spent most of the day writing templates and scripts to make it serve the portfolio. I spent a good two hours trying to figure out why query_posts() was fetching my posts twice. When I couldn’t figure it out, I ditched the script and wrote another one using get_posts(). Of course, it didn’t work because I needed the Loop conditions in order to use the built-in YAPB functions to grab the portfolio thumbnails. I could’ve hacked it and make it generate new thumbnails every time if it wasn’t so… stupid. So I went back to the initial approach.

The problem wasn’t in my script. While I was querying my posts in one location, the same set of posts was being generated by the page template my script was on. *head desk* Now I know where the problem is except I still don’t have a solution. The Loop is inherit in Wordpress page templates… but it’s grabbing both the page content as well as posts that it shouldn’t be concerned with. Why?

I’ve been holding off posting because I’m still looking for a new host. If anybody has any suggestions, please leave them in the comments.

Notes are overrated =)

I was trying to paint a new holiday card for this year, but none of my concepts are coming out too well. Due to time constraints, I might just end up buying commercial cards. When the holiday rolls around in a week, I will finish off some of those sketches.

Reading “GUI Bloopers” and “Agile Web Development with Rails” is also on my to-do list. As well as revamping my portfolio to include school projects.

I don’t like to code. I’ve always known it in the back of my head, even before I went into software engineering. However, programming was just something that came relatively easy to me. And since neither English, accounting, economics, science, nor math were attractive alternatives, I went into computer science. What I really wanted to go into was art. So I entertained the idea of graphic and web design, but my parents were adamant about my going to UofT. I lost count of how many times we’ve fought over where I’d get an undergraduate degree. Long story short, here I am today a few years later.

This past semester has been hard for a number of reasons. I realized that I’m not indifferent towards programming, but I hate it. My marks may say otherwise, but I know I suck at it. And the marks that I deserve are catching up to me. I spent the last few weeks wondering what the hell I was doing here.

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