Wednesday, February 08, 2006, 12:31 PM - Development
Oh the joys of trying to learn PHP and MySQL at my age! With no gurus around to ask for help, it's been a mildly uphill battle trying to rewrite some parts of the website. When a stumbling block presents itself, no amount of banging my head against a wall seems to help. But that's ok.
My initial trepidation at tackling a new language has turned out to be pointless. PHP isn't that much harder than anything I've used before. It's just got some different ways of doing things. In some ways, it's a LOT easier than other languages I've used. Finding that out was very encouraging. Writing a database project took approximately one week to figure out, so for a newbie I think that ain't bad at all.
The project is almost ready to go live.
[EDITED OUT PREVIOUS REQUEST FOR HELP. THE ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED.]
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Friday, December 09, 2005, 02:11 PM - General Chit-Chat
I just put up several Polish recipes of foods my Grandmother would often make, whether for Easter, or Christmas, or just daily fare. These are Polish comfort foods.
Maybe your family made them slightly differently, but this was our tradition and you are welcome to try the recipes out. They are set up to print out at a 3x5 format which is perfect for pasting onto your typical recipe card.
Sandy
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Friday, December 02, 2005, 12:13 PM - General Chit-Chat
Thanks to Jim Smenda for contributing some pictures of processions from St. Barbara Church.
He's also given us a picture of a mystery baseball player wearing a St. Barbara's uniform. I didn't even know they had a baseball team! If anyone recognizes him or knows where that photo was taken, please let me know.
I think the location might be in the general vicinity of the ravine that was between W.18th and W.15th north of Denison Ave. The house seen to his left looks like one of the houses on W.18th but I'm not positive until I can get down to the old neighborhood and take a look.
Don't forget! If you have any interesting photos to share, we'd love to get them. Unique items like these should not fall into the back of some box somewhere never to be seen again.
Sandy
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Wednesday, August 03, 2005, 04:33 PM - General Chit-Chat
Many thanks to the descendants of the JAMES FISH and the EBENEZER FISH Jr. families who have so generously shared their historical treasures with us. Aside from the many photographs and Dauggerotypes, I've also received vintage letters, documents, newspaper articles, and other things that I've been trying to get online as soon as possible.
It's beginning to feel like a Brooklyn, Ohio museum around here, and that is GREAT!
Sandy
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Sunday, July 17, 2005, 08:11 AM - General Chit-Chat
When I get the opportunity, I've been visiting some of the local (Cleveland) cemeteries and photographing headstones. Many of them are already available for viewing.
Some of the monuments I see are huge! I wonder what the cost was at the time they were placed at the plot? I guess it helps you get a feel for the relative wealth of some families. Riverside Cemetery has a wide variety, but not much in the way of interesting designs. Perhaps the most unique features are on the ones that have the laser engraved photographs of the dearly departed. Woodmere Cemetery (Berea) had a very unique monument shaped exactly like an old log cabin, but about the size of a doghouse. Bohemian National (Chicago) must have had a lot of woodworkers or something. Several monuments were shaped just like a standing tree trunk with bark and all.
Before our modern times, cemeteries were more for social gatherings, I guess. Riverside had a small lake where folks could go out on boats. Some families would go to the cemetery and have a picnic. Does anyone do that anymore?
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