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About Me: My grandparents were born in the Indian Territory / Oklahoma. My parents were born in Oklahoma, as was I, my wife, my children and my grandchildren. I was an irresponsbile teenager (it was the 60's, what can I say?) but managed to mature a little. I attend the University of Oklahoma and got a BA in History and went to work for a Fortune 500 company where I was unhappy. Eventually, I went back to OU for my MBA and PhD in MIS (ABD). I became a contract programmer because I programmed much better than I published. I also became a VAR for a firm selling accounting software written in a computer language called dBase that was designed for the Intel 8088 processor. I stayed firmly seated at the grindstone and in the first years of the new millenium I decided I needed a change. I figured that if I was ever going to to do all those things I said that I wanted to do, I'd better get going. In 2005 I sold my house and business and went to truck driving school. I now drive a Big Rig - mine - and I try not to work more than 6 months a year. I make an effort to spend at least 3 months a year outside of the U.S. I'm married. My wife and I have 6 kids and 9 grandchildren. Maybe that's why I like to travel so much.

Postscript: In December, 2010 I hung up my Driver's cap for good. The road had taken its' toll. I was no longer willing to drive 180 days a year, regardless of the money and the ability to work when I wanted. I had seen America. I was tired of being gone from home for 9 months a year. I needed a rest. In 2011 I sold my truck and trailer and was unemployed for the year. However, I wasn't inactive. I traveled overseas to Asia and South America for several months. In the fall I enrolled in an online course to to become certified in Oracle, the world's preeminent database. I want to go back to work sometime in the near future as a software developer or administrator. Even though I programmed for 20+ years, my skills are dated. Fortunately, I have a little flexibility as to my future.

RollingOkie OKC, Jan 1, 2012

This is a test of PHP includes...



The value of the passed parameter is:

LinkVal






The point of this program was to test my ability to pass a parameter to a web page and then find out what that parameter is. My goal is to, eventually, create a shell for the web pages on the web site and then populate that shell with context-sensitive content. In a little more detail, I want to create a program, let's call it form.php, which is called by the main program, such as index.shtml. The form program has a container class where all the other sections ("divs") go. I want to include a header, a menu bar below the header (eventually), a left, right and middle section along with a footer. The sections, left, right and middle get populated with content based on what topic they cover. Of course, any of the sections could get populated based on what is passed from the calling program. My goal is to use a form of "server-side includes" to create a website that is significantly modular and requires less much maintenance than a typical web site would so that I spend less time doing "grunt mainenance" in the future.