Natural selection

I have never been a good theorist. I can't read a book and then apply its principles to a problem that I am trying to solve. I am more like nature, I try many different applications before the one that solves my problem makes it into my program. Sometimes I take parts of one application and add it to another. Sometimes I create a new one consisting mostly of spare parts. I guess you could call me a junkyard mechanic.

Is this an efficient way to work? A hundred years ago it would not be. But the internet and contributions of many people offer a smorgasbord of options and solutions. Some patience and a good internet  connection are all I need.

This is just a collection of the bookmarks I created just this week. I am truly grateful to the people who publish their work for all to see.

• imgSeek Very cool app, with pattern recognition.
• Nihilogic Interesting website with some fun stuff (that caused some problems with Firefox).
• PHP Tutorials Examples Introduction to PHP and MySQL
• Stackoverflow (a forum with many good ideas)
• Electric toolbox (helped me with php time)
• Larry Ullman (I own his book, Php and Mysql)
• Php manual
• libexif
• exiftool Useful console command for quick looks at exif metadata of a file.

What am I trying to do? I am working on a web travel journal. I want to display images and add tags to the metadata (exif). I also use a camera set to Dutch time and need to change the dates on the photographs to the location time. This needs html, php, xml and javascript. CSS will provide the finishing touches. I also want to create a family ancestry website, for which I'll need to create metadata for scanned photographs. Stay tuned.