Dance dance dance

[batskeets]

I've been biking past a new place on Foster for the past while, and I noticed the other day that they offer dance classes. I've been wanting to take up dance again for a while, but everything I find is A) for kids, or B) at the same time as wushu, so it's been hard. I finally went to the website for the place on Foster last night, and they actually have a class I can go to, that is for adults and not horrible for my schedule! And it's really close to my house!

SO, if all goes well--as in, if I can find my shoes, and if they will let me into the class even though their "term" started 3 weeks ago--I am going to TAP DANCE tomorrow night! :D

I'm really jazzed about this, no pun intended. I did ballet, tap, and jazz when I was a kid, and I liked all of it, but tap was always my favorite of the three. I don't know if anyone here would want to join me, since SE Foster isn't the most convenient location for a lot of you, but if'n you do, let me know.

In other news, Joomla! and Drupal are making me want to punch things. Joomla doesn't seem to allow for a homepage that looks different from the overall theme, and I can't even install Drupal for the clients I have who want it, because it seems that every friggin' webhost on the planet has register_globals turned on. If requiring that register_globals be turned on is a sign of weak code, then WHY are they all leaving it on? Seriously, it's pissing me off.

But I got new earrings and a couple sweaters for cheap yesterday. And purple tights! So at least I won't freeze to death while waiting for the bus. (seriously, did we just skip Fall and go straight to Winter?)

Comments

[phasmaphobic.livejournal.com]

Foster - is is called Viscount Studios? If so, hell yeah. They rock. Here's their website:

http://www.viscountstudios.com/

They also have a location on East Burnside. I took tango lessons there. Great place.

[skeets.livejournal.com]

The place I speak of is Spotlight Performing Arts (http://www.spotlightpdx.com/). I've heard of Viscount before, but I'm more interested in individual dance than partner stuff. :D

[tacohime.livejournal.com]

Good luck with Drupal! It's pretty neat overall, but holy shit, what a terrible admin UI. I'm trying to figure out how to work it because I want to use it for the next incarnation of our lab's website, so I'm trying to get a feel for it (currently stumbling and confused: I'm not watching any of the video tutorials because fuck that, I want to learn it all punk style so I can stay legit w/my guerrilla graphic design warfare).

[helloandie.livejournal.com]

can you turn them off by altering .htaccess? i ran into this once with moodle and i *think* that's how i got around it.

[skeets.livejournal.com]

I haven't monkeyed with .htaccess yet. I did try to install a Drupal test site on my own webhost, and I followed their directions on how to alter PHP settings, and it still didn't work!

Any insight or resources you have would be AWESOME.

[sarapada.livejournal.com]

I *always* wanted to take tap lessons when I was kid, so I am happily envious of you!

Misery loves company :-)

[nidaba.livejournal.com]

Yay! Someone else who uses Joomla!

"Joomla doesn't seem to allow for a homepage that looks different from the overall theme"

There is a way around this. Check out this forum string.

Cheers!

Re: Misery loves company :-)

[skeets.livejournal.com]

OMG Thank you! I knew such a thing had to exist, but my Google-fu was failing me :D

[divadrummer.livejournal.com]

I adore Joomla, but only after installing CustomContent: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/4175/details . I used this for techstart.org with decent results. In recent projects, I've been using this test to turn containers on and off conditionally:
function isFrontPage(){
return (JRequest::getCmd( 'view' ) == 'frontpage') ;
}


I'm not really sure how I'd do something entirely different, like a splash page. There must be a way. When you find it, let me know.

[halfempty.livejournal.com]

post on how much Drupal sucks: http://robozen.com/technology/drupal-sucks/

Good luck with the tap and hope you and Ben are well.