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PHP Project Started
I spent some time this weekend getting my summer PHP project started. As mentioned earlier, it will be an investment tracking WordPress plugin. I’ve made a list of features that I want to include as follows:
Will Be Included
- Track multiple investment portfolios.
- Track using total value or a share based system (similar to a mutual fund), allowing total balance to be hidden.
- WP subpage with full graphing and statistical analysis.
- Sidebar tracking with quotes showing daily changes (similar style to Yahoo Finance).
- Plugin controls fully integrate into WP admin menus with easy to use interface.
Gallery Online
Looks like I posted too soon. I ended up having time to get the gallery integrated! Now you’ll see the link in the tabs above and the random image on the sidebar. It was quite simple. I just had to add the correct gallery theme and add a few lines of code to the header and sidebar.
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Updates continue, new trade open…
Today was quite busy so I haven’t had time to do much work on the site. I have the gallery online and integrated but the theme doesn’t work with the blog them at all. I have to find one that looks decent or figure out how to design my own.
There seems to be a bug with either the blog theme or WP that is causing a warning to come up. This is disrupting the first pageview and causing the title image to be shifted down into the tabs. It works fine on a reload. I looked at it very briefly and can disable the function if necessary but I’d rather fix it. It’s on my list of stuff to do.
New Theme!
As you can see the new theme is up and running. The theme is called Fluidity3C and can be found on Kaushal Sheth’s website. It flows much better than the old one and the colors are a bit easier on the eyes. Plus it allows for better integration of other items such as an image gallery, forum, etc.
Speaking of image gallery, that is the next item on my agenda. I believe I have found a good gallery script with excellent WP integration. Watch for it today or tomorrow.
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Major Site Improvements Coming!
I’ve decided to make a number of significant changes to the site. Here’s a list:
- New theme
- New image gallery
- Add a ton of images
- Move my other old blog (http://www.driverdan.com/stocks/) to this site (it keeps going over bandwidth on that host)
- Begin my summer project (see below)
- Add a forum as part of the summer project (see below)
- Possible addition of advertising
- More TBD
Site Update
Sorry about the site being down for a while today. I updated WordPress (the blog software) and accidently uploaded an index page I played with a while ago. I guess my server is setup to show .html before .php. The site should be running great now.
Trading going well, summer project determined
Other than 2 finals I have this coming week, school is now out for the summer. That means I can concentrate on trading, investing, and speculating. May options expired on Friday and I took full advantage of it. I sold covered options on Wednesday and Thursday and managed to make over 11% return on my entire account after broker fees by the close of the markets on Friday! I can still count the number of trades I’ve done on one hand so overall I’ve been doing very well. I’ve only had one small losing transaction. Overall my account is up 16.25% after fees. Did I mention I’ve only been trading for 1 month? I still have one more open position. Assuming the market doesn’t go up more than ~7% in the next month (very unlikely) my total gains will be almost 19%.
Server Downtime
I apologize if anyone could not reach my site tonight. Come to find out a UPS went down at the datacenter and the server was down for 8 hours. My hosting company never contacted me about it. Just as I closed a chat with tech support the server came back up.
This was the only hardware failure downtime the server has had since I aquired it. I’ve had no complaints up to this point. I understand that hardware failures happen but when a server is down for this long a hosting company should email their clients to let them know. I will be sending them a nasty gram tomorrow.
Watch for a horde of posts!
I have a bunch of things I want to post so watch for multiple posts per day over the next week. Here’s a list of topics:
- Polyphasic sleep – I’m going to post a summary of everything to this point. I think I have a lot of useful information to post on this topic.
- Book reviews – I’ve always read a lot of books. I’m going to start posting reviews of various books that I’ve read of the past few years from a variety of topics including equity investing, real estate, true crime, and small business. Most of the reviews will be of educational materials such as the current book I’m reading, The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing by Jason Helly
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Fact or fiction?
For the next few days I’ll be posting entries relating to this site, my thought processes, and my philosophy. That way future posts will make much more sense.
A major issue I have with blogs and society in general is the lack of real scientific sources. Someone will make a statement, such as “3% of adults have served time in prision.” The problem is that they can’t backup their fact or statistic with a valid source. They say something like “I heard it on the news” or “a friend told me.” Both of these sources are not valid! In order to be a responsible person you must state the true source.
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