Going Native: Studies & Quote

Am in the market for a macro lens. Genuine macro not zoom macro. While researching prices, I ran across a neat quote that is worth remembering, "A skill is developed through constant practice with a passion to improve, not bought." Courtesy of [cipoco] on the Canon Community "USA" forum. There is another reference to this quote attributed to [unknown] To me, this applies to my photography endeavors, and is very poignant when applying this to my new found hobby of Going Native. Native as in source code: practice, practice, practice. There is a theory that I read once, a person needs to redo a task over and over at least twenty-two times in order for our brains to commit said task to our long term memories. This is the commitment needed to master source code on demand, as well as to capture professional images with a camera. There are quite a few people that I have met in my past that feel the urge to have more so-called gear in order to improve their skill at accomplishing a task. Auto mechanics, glass cutting to name just two skills. I do not intend to develop the bad habit in the first place. Will do my best.

Inside the last post of this blog I was whining about the difficulty of finishing the construction of an image container. Think this problem is solved (0650 hrs 10aug16). Hopefully, but will have to wait until I get up to run it through my browser. Am very tired and if I get distracted because the code doesn't work, I will be going native and won't be able to sleep. Have spent hours,and when the repair works, will be happy. It was just one property involved, and parent to child relationship.Hopefully, when I wake up will be able to put a screen-shot of the image gallery six-pack.

This is a late night addition to my blog for 10/11 August 2016. Am tired, slept all day and am still sleepy. Will not add anything. Start fresh tomorrow. Am putting aside this project of image gallery construction for the time being. Have saved everything I need for continued development and will move on in other areas. With Blogger which is the priority at the moment, I can continue with my current studies of Native source code.

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Studies 4

Server Side-Unnecessary Inside Blogger

This is entirely new. Server-side language. Am not ready to enter this area, because I have to learn about JS to make my pages responsive. If my pages are not responsive there is no need for server-side.Responsive is so that the webpage viewer may interact with my content if they choose. Server-side allows storage of data entered by the viewer if they have chosen to interact. The "first" video I have watched is explaining LAMP and MAMP.

Am sticking with my goal of entering cyberspace as I understand it on a daily basis, so far. Have been working on an image display template in CSS which when completed in the next couple of days will post on here. It will be six images in two rows with a very nice block container.I do have a very nice image of clouds to post at the moment, nope two images that I will share.Update: 11 August 2016;2430 hrs. Have tried to set up an image gallery with two rows of six columns. Have not learned enough native source to set up such an image gallery. Am close but no cigar.

Am learning my source!! Yaaay...

When I first uploaded these images, they wrapped into this container like a sentence wraps because I just loaded them. There is a pop-up box that requests (server-side) how I would like to align the images. I left the viewer interaction response button empty (while choosing to use an image size of medium). I captured a screen shot to use as an explanation. Below is "Image Upload One" before I centered them using CSS. "Image Upload Two" shows the results of using CSS. Finally, the weblog itself shows how it is going to stay, at least for now.

Image Upload One

Image Upload Two

After uploading the two images above to show how some of my source works to you folks, if anyone sees this, was not happy with the appearance. So will play around a bit. To see if the view cannot be improved.

Pretty cool. Just published this container on my blog. Am noticing that vocabulary/syntax is also very important. The Blogger "template" is outside the text container provided. Blogger itself has a hierarchical Style Sheet that is the parent of anything written in the body. My blog post is the child of Bloggers property adult. This is why even with mistakes that I have made in the beginning... even now probably... Blogger's parent head over-rides my Internal Style Sheet of Bloggers External commands.