{"id":1903,"date":"2011-03-22T11:38:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T17:38:03","slug":"web-development-as-a-creative-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/web-development-as-a-creative-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Web development as a creative art"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, creative projects<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, MIRITE?! Still going strong, despite the fact that I still have to finish that week 3 poem, and I’m still missing a couple from February when I was on a business trip to Brazil, but for the most part, I’m still there, still creating things on a weekly basis. But lately, these projects have taken a detour into an completely unexpected area.<\/p>\n

Programming.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not my original intent, mind you. When I conceived of this little project for myself, I had envisioned short stories, drawings, paintings, and music. All the usual sub-standard trappings of what we like to term the “creative arts”. An opening of my heart, an outpouring of raw, unfiltered emotion. We’re talking about Lifetime Original Movie <\/em>sort of content. But then a couple of weeks ago, I thought “Hey! Why not take my shabby little game database, and make a sweet looking website out of it for my creative project?” And so I did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And then, once I posted the site online, I had yet another<\/em> thought (you can see where this sort of thing could get dangerous)<\/em>, where I thought “Hey! Doing this sort of thing in HTML is time-consuming and clunky. I’ll bet I could teach myself to create a more dynamic website!” And so, after asking around on Twitter a bit, I bought a PHP\/MySQL book, and did just that<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, I am consumed<\/em>. Consumed by the power of PHP and MySQL. Brilliant sparks of creative thought flash against the empty interior of my skull and scream for attention. What I could build with just these two hands and a shaky understanding of relational database schemas! What worlds I could create through the power of a poorly-structured SQL query! What tapestries I could paint with a severely lacking comprehension of PHP arrays!<\/p>\n

I have become like a GOD. (But not an awesome one like God<\/strong>, but more like the fake, lesser ones, like one of those that the Israelites worshipped when they fled Egypt. You know, like Baal.)<\/em><\/p>\n

But the beautiful drawings? The mesmerizing wordsmithery? GONE are the days of stirring the soul with pens and imagery. No, sir! I shall stir the soul with gorgeous variables, gently laced with dollar signs and carefully-placed semi-colons! I shall pierce the heart with a fitting SQL login script, and render it mute with a caress of lovingly-crafted FOR\/EACH statements.<\/p>\n

You cry out “LOVE!<\/strong>” and I shall cry out “echo ‘Yes, ‘.$love.’ indeed.’;<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

(The above may or may not have been written completely in jest, at a moment of weakness brought on by a code-induced frenzy. But I will say this: I really do<\/strong> love programming. But not more than words<\/strong>, because, jeez. A man’s gotta TALK<\/strong>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, creative projects, MIRITE?! Still going strong, despite the fact that I still have to finish that week 3 poem, and I’m still missing a couple from February when I was on a business trip to Brazil, but for the most part, I’m still there, still creating things on a weekly basis. But lately, these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[673,385,675,157,155],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-creative-projects","tag-design","tag-mysql","tag-php","tag-web-design","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}