gsnedders

3 months after I launched by blog, I have just under 4,000 hits, and just over 1,000 unique hits. Also, my web browser/operating system isn't the most common, which means that more than 50% of the hits are not me. When I launched Geoffers' in January, I was expecting to reach the 1,000 uniques in about 7/8 months. You guys did it in 3.

I have had more than 50 comments spread over 10 posts (this is number 11), more than I thought I'd get... Well, on my most commented post I have 19, and I didn't think I'd get that many in total.

Stats

Browsers:

Operating Systems:

Apart from those, there are no interesting stats...

WordPress

I started on an alpha version of WP, and I've ended up on 1.5 Strayhorn, now, until 1.6 enters beta with some really good new features, I'll be sticking to stable releases...

In the past 2 weeks, since the launch of WP 1.5 Strayhorn it has got over 58,000 downloads... There are two downloads, the .zip and the .tar.gz, which is smaller, now, if we times that one's filesize (274KB) by 58,000, we get an idea of how much bandwidth was used for it... Around 15GBs, for a project which is open source and who's only source of income is donations, it is a huge amount.

Countdown Scripts, we all need one somewhere, even if it just until our next birthday :P So, here's mine:

<?phpfunction countdown ($count) {$difference = $count - time();$abs_difference = abs($difference); $days = floor($abs_difference/60/60/24);$hours = floor(($abs_difference - $days*60*60*24)/60/60); $minutes = floor(($abs_difference - $days*60*60*24 - $hours*60*60)/60); if ($difference != $abs_difference) {return "It was $days days, $hours hours and $minutes minutes ago!";} else {return "Only $days days, $hours hours and $minutes minutes to go!";} }?>

To use it, you pass a *nix timestamp in the function call, eg. countdown (1108774476);
Remember you can also use the mktime function, eg. countdown (mktime (3, 20, 0, 4, 20, 1992));
Lastly, it returns the string, it doesn't output it, so to output it you'll need to use echo or print, eg. echo countdown (1108774867);

So, I just got back from London, and the Apple Store, so, what did I think? Big.

235 Regent Street is one huge building, and with the middle of it empty, so when you walk in, you see the displays on both sides, and the glass stair case. The effect this gives is incredible.

Head to the right, and you'll find consumer products, and to the left, professional products. Upstairs, there is software, the genius bar, the studio and lastly a theatre.

While it looks good in photos, they give you no scale of the size of it, think of how big you think it is, then times that by 10, then you're closer to the real size.

Lastly, what did I buy?

• iWork '05
• iLife '05
• iSight
• Virtual PC 7 Mac Upgrade

So, I've finally finished it, so, basically, the question is: "What do people think of it?"

History

• Images come online - 1st February (Evening)
• I think about what to do - 1st February until 6th February
• I show a couple of people an early beta version - 6th February (Evening)
• Post at CF to eliminate final bug - 6th February (Night)
• Read the post at CF, then apply the changes to the CSS - 7th February (Evening)
• Tidy up the CSS - 7th February (Evening)
• Version 1.1 becomes Golden Master - 7th February (Evening)

Everyday, I see lots of people using code looking something like this:

<?php $rand = mt_rand(1,10); if ($rand == 1) {echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 1';} elseif ($rand == 2) {echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 2';} elseif ($rand == 3) {echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 3';} elseif ($rand == 4) {echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 4';} elseif ($rand == 5) {echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 5';} elseif ($rand == 6) {echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 6';} elseif ($rand == 7) {echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 7';} elseif ($rand == 8) {echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 8';} elseif ($rand == 9) {echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 9';} elseif ($rand == 10) {echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 10';} ?>

When, surely, it is easier to use the switch command, which will require less code (although more whitespace is common) and will be more readable, it'd look something like this:

<?php $rand = mt_rand(1,10); switch ($rand) { case 1:echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 1';break; case 2:echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 2';break; case 3:echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 3';break; case 4:echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 4';break; case 5:echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 5';break; case 6:echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 6';break; case 7:echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 7';break; case 8:echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 8';break; case 9:echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 9';break; case 10:echo 'What ever you want to do if $rand == 10';break; } ?>

Of course, use of switch is not limited to number generated by the mt_rand command, it's just what I've chosen to use in my example here, partly because I've been using mt_rand quite a lot recently...

Relevent PHP Manual Pages:

• if
• elseif
• switch
• mt_rand