Google notebook isn’t perfect. I just wish they would continue making it a better product. But now that I think about it, Google is an company that makes most of it’s revenue selling advertisements online (that I hardly see due to AdBlock) and I don’t see how they could’ve made their Notebook app a profitable endeavor. I know that I wouldn’t pay for a “pro” version, and that their ads  would be GreaseMonkey‘d out or plain ignored – all I want is a list of bookmarks not solicitations!

Now I’m going to search online for other alternatives to replace and to transfer all of my bookmarks to. I’m looking at delicious right now – I just don’t like sharing my bookmarks with the world too much. But maybe I’ll let it go once I get my lifestream properly set up on here.

Another reason why we all should just stop supporting IE 6.0.

http://www.jelaniharris.com/blog/I-love-apple-pies#comments

To look like:

http://www.jelaniharris.com/blog/I-love-apple-pies

Here’s the ideal way to do this with Javascript:

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	//Grab our current Url
	var url = window.location.toString();
	//Remove anchor from url
	var anchor_index = url.indexOf('#');
    if (anchor_index != -1) {
    	url = url.substring(0, anchor_index);
    }

It doesn’t get any easier than that. What this code does is that it grabs the URL from the current window, and then finds the index into the string where the ‘#’ is. Then if it exists, it truncates the string up to the ‘#’.

I was considering making it a personal art portfolio, but now I’m leaning towards making it an art community where people share and critique each other’s artwork. The only thing I’m concerned with is that I don’t want people stealing art from deviantArt and claiming them as their own and having people complain to me about it. It’s just one of those things I sorta don’t want to deal with, and that I know I’m going to deal with when Apparatus Complex gets  popular in the future – when it’s complete.

Of course before I actually go through with this community website I have to look at all of the “competition” and see what they do right and what they do wrong and then capitalize on those issues. That’s business and research I suppose. Having facts and history and repeating it doesn’t guarantee that a site will be popular.

Also, I do plan on creating this website in a new language. I’ve heard a lot of good things about Ruby on Rails (and not-so good things). I also just found out that my webhost, Site5, completely supports rails so there’s no reason now why I shouldn’t be learning this popular and new language.

The best way that I learn a new language is to have a project – or a goal – in mind so that I can visualize what my goal is and what I take the steps I need to do to get there. I’m not really one of those programmers that can just do all of the examples in a book and claim that I know the language. I have to get really deep into the planning of the project, and notice the parallels between the new language I’m learning and the old languages I already know. Like just skimming through some sample code, I notice that the way Ruby is structured it looks like Python with Java sprinkles. Or maybe, more like Java Flakes cereal with Ruby marshmallows.

(That actually sounds kinda delicious. I’m in the mood for Lucky Charms now.)

They say that once you learn/master one programming language, all of the other languages you want to learn get easier. I think that’s 100% true.