Upgraded WordPress and Moving On

Posted by Wonder

October 27, 2008

Thought my Saturday night was shot but WordPress is easy to upgrade following the WordPress Codex instructions. I simply deleted most of my old files and installed the new ones except for my configuration file which I used TextPad, my favorite text editor, to add my server information to the new file before I uploaded it. I could have used NotePad or any other text editor and done the same thing.

So, I updated my two WordPress blogs (I also have a family blog) in a few short minutes and didn’t really get into the “poetry of code” at all.

Then, as I’m really into learning and moving forward constantly, I decided on an online school for my current education endeavors. I chose Lynda.com for “this semester”.

Lynda.com Online Learning Library

I’m taking 4 classes:

Blogger Essentail Training, which I’m taking because I’ve already used Blogger and I wanted to be able to judge the quality and completeness of Lynda.com training with something I already knew;
Digital Photography Principles: The Camera, as I’ve just begun to get into digital photography and I wanted to improve my skills so that my readers wouldn’t have to suffer from my poor shots;
Photoshop CS2 Mastering Camera Raw, which I’m taking even though my camera, an Olypus FE-170, doesn’t take photographs in the Raw mode because I have a son who can take such Raw format pictures for me to work with and I really hope to upgrade my own camera someday; and
Dreamweaver 8 Essential Training because I’ve always hand coded all my sites and I don’t think you can be a professional web designer unless you know Dreamweaver, can you?

I have a future daughter-in-law that wants to be a web or graphic designer and is going to technical school to that end. It will be interesting to compare the quality of our various “educations” when we get done with our schools, won’t it?

Personal, WordPress

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