Slow evening in the coder's corner



After sleeping for a long time, I treated myself with a visit to the local Subway to get a foot-long teriyaki chicken sandwich with cheese-oregano bread. I usually order it with only lettuce for topping with southwest and garlic sauces on the side with dry pepper. When I got back home I ate the Subway sandwich with Pepsi Max Lime and watched one of my favourite shows from YouTube. After eating I decided to take my daily dose of multivitamin tablet and after that brewed an almost full pot of coffee. I drink my coffee with milk, or, if I happen to have it, with chocolate milk. (I prefer the ready to drink chocolate milk named Play which is available in almost if not all of the grocery shops and mega markets in my area).

After reading electronic mail and writing some messages about a team work photo file which is supposedly already returned and about a calculation error I made during an online test I had to find out how to correctly calculate the numbers in question. Now it's time to concentrate on the English blog post I'm supposed to return into an online return box for a review before posting it online to my blog. I copy all the things I see useful in the assignment pages (including links) into a notepad text file for easy viewing.

I'm scrolling through the links given, interesting insights to blogging. I'm doing this blog to get a grade in my English class so it's good to get some tips on how to make it - I don't have a lot of experience in writing a blog, I think I did one like ten years ago but it was only for myself to express myself somehow (maybe for my relatives and close friends to get to know what I was doing at the time) not to gather the maximum amount of views.

Guides which give tips in my opinion can give encouraging help for a beginner blogger like "Just keep at it and over time you will improve and get better." and the best help I could give myself is "Just try to do it and eventually you will succeed.".

I first tried Blogger (http://www.blogger.com) to make my blog in but was put off by the thing that it needed me to have a Gmail account and the timezone is for some reason wrong, my country is zoned GMT+2 and Blogger gives me my country in a GMT+3 timezone. I tried WordPress (http://www.wordpress.com) to present my blog but I didn't like the post publishing system, so I went back to Blogger. I made myself a Gmail account for school work so now I could register in Blogger with confidence. For the timezone thing I just decided to use a country in the GMT+2 timezone.

For anyone interested in me, I am a person with a light coding background (HTML, PHP, MySQL) - nothing big but kept me working for ten years in a company as a CEO and a coder (kept the company web page up on a paid separate server). I also have some experience in photographing when in the company new product photographs were needed I took the photos with a Canon EOS digital camera and edited the background away with the software Adobe Photoshop on a Windows system. For the most part I also did the company's customer service with a Gmail account so I have also experience in tough customer situations like where the packages are going and what to do if a product is broken.

For customer service to get better in my company I remember that I coded a response for both of these problems (where the packages are going and what to do when a product is broken), an automated e-mail for a customer with a tracking number. I added a feature to the web page admin side, the sending of the tracking number into customer's e-mail address when the company got the tracking number from Posti, the post service I used with the company deliveries. I made a separate online page for broken products which would inform the company about a future receiving of a broken product, the page would give information to the customer where the broken product needs to be sent and how.

C/C++ has always been a big mystery to me among coding languages. It will hopefully not be really hard to learn as I've understood during the studies of mine there are whole courses of it called Programming. I've been a student in University mathematics before and with my studies in short mathematics from high school I couldn't succeed a lot - which is why I am now a 1st year student of Degree Programme in Information Processing Science. Hopefully there isn't a lot of heavy duty mathematics in the Programming courses. 

I was asked to write about my English learning goals for this blog. I don't have a lot of English learning goals with my blog (or in general), I'm just hoping I'll make interesting enough blog that I'll pass the course (with good grades) and not make a lot of people bored. I'm still fighting inside should I upload a photo with the text or not. And if I do, what kind of photo would be good. Something funny maybe?

What I ask of you? If you could be so kind that you would write in comments what would you like to see here? What kind of content should I make to keep you interested in my blog? What would make you come back to see my blog again?

For my classmates I hope a great success in studies!

Now I'm all setup for blogging! Let the blogging commence!


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Comments

  1. Sami3/10/25 15:29

    Glad to hear others share the same taste as me when it comes to Subway sandwiches. I see you have a moderate amount of experience in coding, and I hope it'll shine through in your studies. Although C/C++ might be one of the easiest programming languages to learn (or so I've heard), it's really complex to master. But practice makes perfect am I right? Cheers!

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  2. purple3/10/25 23:12

    Thank you for the post. I feel like the way you went into a lot of detail about your background and motivations was great, and will definitely enhance your future posts. I'm looking forward to them.

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