Two days before my first child was born, I decided to start a blog to document my new life as being a father. That was 18 years ago. A lot has changed since then. Over that time, I've posted less and less. I haven't posted anything at all in several years. I think this is mostly due to social media being the main place where I post day-to-day things now.
I got a Pebble smartwatch a little over a week ago. I've been asked how I liked it a number of times, so I decided I should probably just write an actual review down.
For anyone unaware of what the Pebble is, it is a watch that connects to your phone via Bluetooth. An app runs on the phone and can enable the watch to have enhanced functions beyond what a normal watch would.
The main advantages of this is, for one, the watch face can be completely customizable. Also, notifications on your phone can display on your watch. No longer do you need to pull your phone out of your pocket every time someone sends you a text.
When using PHP, one issue I've had for a while is figuring out a way to map API input parameters to methods in my code.
For instance, I have an API for John VanOrange that allows anyone to access most of the site's functionality. The public API methods all map to classes and functions inside those classes. Each of these methods allow for various parameters to be passed into them.
As it was snowing the other day, I was thinking about how random the formation of snow is. It made me wonder if science could predict snow if it wasn't already so obvious. I have a feeling that our current level knowledge, we couldn't.
Made the mistake of trying to order something from Walmart.com. They cancelled my order twice saying there were problems with the payment security checks. Yet, both orders were using two different payment methods. On top of that, it took three days for their customer service to get back to me, and they just said they couldn't tell me what the issue was. Seems I am simply not allowed to shop there anymore. Not sure what type of business strategy they are going with.