It's been a little slow going as I build out all the features I wanted this site to have, some of which the average user will never realize I've built(hopefully at least).

This weekend I managed to finish up all the features I had intended to add to the site, in the process learning a lot about planning and some new concepts.

Let's start with the planning then I think. I learned that what you initially envision rarely encompasses all the you will actually need. My initial list of features and necessities for the blog section of the site was drastically underestimated.

This is a list of just a few features I had to add after that fact that brought some functionality I needed and didn't realize I'd require at the onset(several of these broke the website usually due to not migrating the existing database to meet the new requirements):

• User Comments


• User Image


• Date Updated


• Pagination

Speaking of Pagination, it was a little bit of a struggle in concept for me. Most of the resources seriously over complicated the process or were incompatible with my existing database and queries. Because of this I spent far more energy than needed trying solutions I found in documentation and on Stack Overflow, many solutions applying to a different type of database with a similar name. None of which, might I add, I got working.

After a day and a half searching and trials I asked a senior developer I have the amazing company of, from across the pond, a few questions about if my own idea for a solution was acceptable. He echoed the concept almost to a tee, giving me an overview as I worked through it on my own.

Even though you won't see the fruits of this labor until after I've written more blog entries, I thought it fairly intrinsic to the blog itself to have the functionality even if it won't be immediately used.

Thanks for reading this post I'll discuss more coding concepts in the future and use this as a base of operations for my ideas and musings.