Going Native - Sabbath Post

Sabbath Post

This is a big day for me. Along with my study of Christ's Seven Letters to the Churches in Revelation, have decided to commit the studies to my first webpage. Am building this on my local drive until I can afford an account to have my own domain. Three of about ten primary sources for my studies in Revelation are the Holy Bible, Koinonia House YT videos and this website.

My brother's have spoken of GoDaddy.com and I will look at this homepage in a few minutes. Google has a site to help me. There are many things yet to learn before I am qualified to put my thoughts up onto our web. A whole list if I am to write my own site and not rely on someone else's templates, for instance. There are many machines that can view web sites that have to be considered. Accessibility is most important. And some folks are running different versions of windows; older versions display sites differently than newer versions. Network speed has to be considered also. Different factors that need to be developed, by me, in order to have a quality site. And am still learning to float different portions parts of my page to where they belong. So anyway, I have a long way to go before I am ready to have a site.

This afternoon, my focus will be the letter to the Ephesians at the beginning of Revelation Chapter 2. I have plenty of jumbled up notes that need to be committed to html. This will take plenty of work and time. This is where I am this Sabbath.Am looking at stuff to build my own pages, and it seems to all be cell phone orientated. Am wondering why? Can't see anything on a cell. Nor can one hear anything on a cell, unless tiny ear-piece speakers are added. I could listen to audio on a cell without having to bother looking at the screen. For me, this would be best.

Am going through W3school's html text formatting section. Reminding myself and having a review. Been looking at the "review" for 30 minutes. There is a bunch of stuff for my to learn. Buttons, forms, and other stuff. Will spend time on this, and think I will go through the CSS list of topics also.

Going Native-My Locals

My Own Work

Have been studying for hours on end. Very fun stuff,... would rather do native source coding than watch videos. Which is unique for me. This is extra-ordinary, and I have started into JavaScript. Am sure this is very complex: statements, variables and functions. Began looking at "if" and "if/else" statements (?) today. There are calls, passes, and parameters that I am beginning to grasp. Operation assignments were started last night and spoken about again this morning.They are very straight forward: if something is equal then an operation takes place. Then, there is -=,+=,*=, /=, and ,<=,>=. The symbols are self-explanatory, yet, am glad the videos are up so that they can be re-examined. Sheesh. Another few days and I might have a better grasp. We shall see./p>

The reason that I am studying all of this stuff is to interact with the Internet closely, getting more involved is my goal. Am going to go out flower shopping today, in an attempt to get some nice images up on Smugmug. So far I have only added three Mojave Twilight images. Need more quality images to create the quality galleries. And, I have a study to continue locally (which means it is inside my own machine) that I have been neglecting to learn native source code. This is fine because without the source code my blog won't look good, viewers will not be able to interact with my pages, and my pages will not be "responsive" (if I ever get pages up on a site). Responsive means that viewers will be a "part" of my stuff. When they move their mouse or fingers the site will be active. It will encourage viewers to interact with the information I am sharing with them. In order for folks to enjoy my stuff I need JavaScript. This is the only way I know to explain it to myself.

Plus, writing all this out in here helps sort all of my mental activity. Let me just say that this native source coding has really shaken my brain awake! Am very excited. Would like to tell my brothers but both of them are programmers already which means they know exactly how I feel. Am going to share this address with Jacqueline, my Australian friend, my very best friend. And any others I can think about. Have looked at my Statistics tab and do not know if anyone reads this (except for two or three posts, so far). I have heard that websites have "bots" which are written programs to go to a persons site to create stats. This is whom I think is reading all of this because no one leaves comments. Darn it. Yet, it is because my pages do not encourage readers to participate. I plan on a JavaScript remedy. Also, I need to work on my Sabbath Study for tomorrow. After going for a few groceries, and finding some decent flowers for images, I will be back. The cat is inside and sleeping. The image below is "Tom" my friend, a socialized feral cat. He is over a year old but probably less than two years old.

Anyway, This is Tom. This particular day he was interested in my camera instead of his normal ignore. He just decided to adopt me one day... walked right inside. I had a can of food and he has stayed ever since.

Studies 6 - JavaScript

Knew It Was Coming

The third big step, from where I was standing at least, in blogging with native code is JavaScript. Have been seeing hints in text, hearing hints in the video, and now in the video series I am watching, JavaScript has been introduced. Sheesh. The time is about 1756 on 11aug16.Have some stuff to do, and needed to get my daily log blog posted. Just picked up my mail, and purchased tobacco (a big project). In addition, I posted two images onto Google Plus and one of the viewers said one of the images looked like dog poop~!! So am upset. Will go get milk, and bread before retaking the image. Below is an image of my one month's supply of tobacco.

One pound of weed for the month with an extra-large supply of rolling papers and a butane lighter. Says pipe tobacco yet is just plain shredded raw tobacco with no flavor. The rolling papers are sold in a strong, easy-to-use packets; 115 papers in each. The papers are chemical free and are different from packaged cigarettes. The rollies do not burn evenly, go out continuously, and a lot of time the glue does not adhere. Guessing, I would say that one-third of the papers end up in the waste bin unused.One lighter lasts just about one month, a bit less coincidentally. All calculated I spent just under $30 U.S. Dollars for a one month's supply.

There was big debate about second-hand smoke months ago in the news and on talk shows everywhere. It is very funny that now with the new taxes that have been imposed on smokers, this debate has disappeared.I find it strange, personally. Everyone should be able to see it. Look around, there is no debate now. There was no real discussion about the legal implications of the Federal Government imposing such a tax at a local community level. The tax was just "accepted" like a foregone conclusion. Because everyone else was getting cancer from cigarettes they should be taxed.Yet, I think the real discussion should have been about automobile exhaust poisons being pumped into the air. I feel that car exhaust is second-hand smoke. Hmmm.

Included in today's mail is an Ikea mailer. A full catalog just like Sears used to mail in the old days. This is a great idea on the part of this company. They have excellent products for sale, and I have never had occasion to shop at one of their showrooms. It just so happens that I am in desperate need of furniture, so who knows?

Now that I have shared images which I had intended to include earlier, but fell asleep... it is time to get back to my source code studies. Am at a beginner's level using JavaScript and the tutor I am blessed to have on YouTube just moved to that area. Seems complex, yet it is fun. Turns out the computer is just one big calculator, literally.

• Single-line comments:
• Multi-lined comments:
• Statements:
• Assignment operators: when a variable has been assigned the operator tells the what the variable has been assigned "to", the operator tells it what to do.
• Variables: can equal basic whole numbers, fractions of whole numbers, negative whole numbers and fractions of negative whole numbers,
• Strings:
• Escape Characters:
• Functions: basically a mini-program.

Am going to attempt to put a function into Blogger using what I learned today. This is kind of fantastic stuff to learn. Wowzers! If necessary the function may be the topic of my next post. This is so cool.Went back to set up to watch the video again and decided that I won't try JavaScript because I do not know if it is okay with the Blogger folks. We are allowed to use html/css because this is clearly identified with the button at the upper-left. Blogger does not say js nor JavaScript, and until I find out if it is okay, will not use it. I really like this Blogger and do not want to do the wrong thing.