This morning's entertainment....

I showed John my website, and the current error-message therein, just to see if he had any suggestions. He's fairly tech-savvy, though not currently up on web design. Still, sometimes another set of eyes are handy.

He rubbed his chin, stared at it for a few and said, "I know what you need to do."

"Really?" says I.

"Yep. Get your Dad interested and have HIM debug it for you."

ROFL

And actually, not entirely a notion without merit. Dad learned Fortran and COBOL in school, then taught himself PASCAL, Machine, Assembly, Basic (mostly to play with the C64), and C, C+, and C++. He was much more interested in the job security involved in remaining at the top of his tech skills than in getting into Middle Mgt and becoming Dilbert's Boss. Really, PHP shares quite a bit of similarity with C++. (He had a tutorial on his computer at one point that I made it about 1/2 way through). I ought to see if I can pique his techie-boy interest in Joomla!

Decisions...

I got another Amazon.com "appreciation gift" from a vendor. So, decision time.

A book on PHP? (Recommendations, alysten or mmcnealy?

A book on Joomla 1.5 template design? (Not sure how much of the current template design process will change with the release of 1.6 - supposedly this summer. Though the developer progress blog indicates maybe not too much... I could use it now. Be nice if I could also use it later...)

Or a needlework or cookbook? Truth here being that most of the needlework or cooking books I currently have on my "wish list" are out of print and unavailable via Amazon.

Opinions?