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Revisions

Hello to those handful of you who read this stuff! I’ve done a lot of debating where I’m going to branch out next and the best bet for me has to be pursuing some of my personal projects. I know it sounds like it should be the obvious direction to go, but there have been many factors inhibiting this from happening.

Regarding this blog, it is currently too broad. I try to make an effort to focus on the technical posts, but it never happens especially considering the other outlets I have for publishing things in the realm of system building, search engine marketing, and Joomla/web development. Also, with the latest release of Joomla, I feel I’ll be dropping Wordpress all together. WP is just too broad and it lacks the structure required for organizing things the way I want them. I can also get some serious API integrations done with Joomla in a much quicker fashion. Nothing against Wordpress as a platform, I think it’s just time for me to move on.

The new Johnux.com platform is going to be based around the following categories: Tech rants, Gaming, Business Ethics(short quotes), Health & Fitness, Hardware Reviews, Art, and Music. Encouraged by a close friend, I’m definitely going to start making electronica again. I might take up vocal and piano lessons again. I still want to free-learn on my guitar and violin, but I think I might take a direct route back to piano. Having learned the basics behind music at age 5 I feel it’s kind of a waste to not be doing something with it. According to my friend, I possess the structure needed to break music down accurately(audiophile prowess) and I had a lot of success in the past with some odd ambient and one off amient-electric stuff. We’ll see where it goes, but I’ll definitely be posting it all on here!

I’m currently working on some hardware reviews(need a good youtube channel name!), some game videos for League of Legends(special thanks to Ecks), and I’m writing a cookbook that I will definitely be touching on from time to time. I would tell everyone to subscribe, but I don’t want to fuss with data migration during the platform switch so I’ll just say, bookmark it, keep an eye out.

 

Thanks!

-Johnux

 

Joomla 2.5.0RC1

Testing Joomla 2.5.0RC1. This will be an exciting day!

Why is education so misleading?

What the heck is wrong with me? Why am I writing about this…

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Let me apologize ahead of time to whoever ends up reading this because this is almost definitely not going to make sense the first time someone reads it, which is sort of what this is all about anyways… Okay, here goes.

Today I’m sitting here at home. I’m going over a few things, trying to update my brain before I attempt the daunting task of trying to assemble an application and get some of my work done. I’m going over some of the basic theory behind Ruby on Rails and the first thing that comes up is the architecture. And I know everyone has experienced this before, when you end up reading through a tutorial somewhere trying to get some concept and syntax pounded into your brain, then suddenly there is a massive over usage of reoccurring and conflicting words? I’m honestly growing increasingly discouraged by encountering this. Let me explain what’s bothering me today:

MVC Architecture. Or rather the words that compose the acronym MVC. ModelViewController. Now let me explain to everyone what MVC means. You have a web application developed. Now this application can access a database or not, it doesn’t really matter for this architecture, and really, the beauty of MVC architecture is it really doesn’t matter what happens when a user accesses your site, it pretty much just handles all models of a dynamic web page. But oh wait, I just used the word model, the very first word in MVC. HMMM. Okay, let’s start from a different angle here. Model REALLY just means component. I know, that’s strange right? But a model really is just a component and I can’t classify that any more simply than that.

Joomla!

The simplest, most logical, and easiest framework ever made(not just opinion, it’s the most used) is Joomla. While Joomla doesn’t support Object Oriented Programming, it supports PHP and it’s powerful enough for most peoples uses. Joomla is broken down as follows–

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