I’ve always said that languages are not my forte, and to some extent it is true. For a number of years I lived in a house where probably six languages were fluently spoken around me daily and I never picked up more than a word here or there. Three years of spanish in high school, living with folks speaking Romanian – and no I have almost nothing to show for it.

But when it comes to the lanaguages of computers… there I seem to do ok.

This new adventure has begun to bring to life this website that has been spinning about within my head for awhile now. And with it comes new computer language adventures.

Today besides learning the basics about WordPress and getting the domain and subdomains all set up with the hosting provider, as well as integrating with my SmugMug account….

I’ve spent a good amount of time learning PHP. Previously my web-based coding existed in the worlds of Cold Fusion or ASP.NET so this is a new adventure. I have made a tiny “day trip” if you will into PHP in order to learn how to grab my Photo Of the Day from my SmugMug account and turn it into an HTML snippet that I can put in any php page. By the time you see this post, the photo will hopefully have a prominent place upon the homepage along with my latest postings.

Here is the FeedForAll site I found most useful in figuring out the PHP to make this all work.