Progress>Hegel?

This week has been an interesting one, full of nice little discoveries that make things ever-so-slightly better.

Firstly I’ve been getting to grips with the Gnome-terminal and using it a lot more. The really useful thing has been the ability to open files in programs while granting them temporary superuser privileges. Which I learnt how to do this week:

sudo bluefish /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Not only that, but I’ve simply been using it a lot more to do everything, and making sure to look up commands that i don’t understand when I read them in howto guides on the net. Slowly, the point of doing things this way becomes clear. Certainly for playing with things on the Apache server I’ve got running on the PC it’s very useful.

Meanwhile I’ve installed Drupal to play about with it. The instant power of the bundled modules is apparent right from the start, but I suspect that there is quite a lot to learn with regards to getting right down into editing both the themes and the back-of-house that would have to be done to get it to be actually useful. Until then, it’s simply quite ugly.

This week’s other development was to begin learning python. Which is going relatively well, although thinking in it is still a long way off, I’m at least now able to read it and understand what’s going on. More to follow I suspect.