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            <h1 class="serendipity_date">Monday, March 31. 2008</h3>

            <h2 class="title serendipity_title"><a href="/blog/archives/39-Photos-online!.html">Photos online!</a></h2>

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    <p>W00T! I finally got some of my pictures online. You can see them here: <a href="http://www.linuxlefty.com/photos/index.php?cat=7">Peter's Chinese Pictures</a>.</p>

Sorry for the short post, I’ve written a bunch on the picture’s captions I don’t have much to write here right now

~Peter

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            <h1 class="serendipity_date">Tuesday, December 11. 2007</h3>

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    <p>Several of my friends have been asking me to teach them programming, so I thought that I would start posting some programming tutorials on my blog.</p>

Basically, I would program an application in a programming language, give some background on the language, and then explain what the code is doing line-by-line.

I was thinking this could also act as a comparative programming study. If I did the same program in various different programming languages, it might be easier to see how the languages are similar and where they differ.

Soooooo…. what programming languages do you want to learn and what should I make for the example?

Here are some examples to get you started:

Programming Languages:

ASP ¹
C++
C# ¹
D
Fortran
Haskell
Java
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Ruby
Python
Smalltalk
TCL
Visual Basic ¹

Programming Examples:

Calendar
Chat program
Checkers game
Drawing program
Journal
Text editor

Please post which programming languages that you want to learn and a simple programming example that you would like to see! Note that I don’t know all the programming languages that I listed above, but I tried to hit most of the major ones and I can learn the a new one or two

1: This is only if I can get Mono working on Linux. I’ll tend to shy away from these

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            <h1 class="serendipity_date">Monday, November  5. 2007</h3>

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    <p>I have sort of a love-hate relationship with CMS (content management

systems). I love the ease at which I am able to edit content and managepages. However, I have always felt that they were too restrictive andtoo much work. I have to work to get my website template in a formatthat the CMS supports. Then I have to work to install and configure theCMS. Then (and this is the kicker for me), if I want to drop down andcode some PHP or Python, at best I have to install some plugin thatwill allow me to use arbitrary PHP. Usually, I end up having to hacksome plugin myself. Then, what if I want my blog and photo album to usethe same theme? I have to port my template to these as well and try tohack some kind of plugin so that I can integrate my blog, photo albumand CMS all together — and I have three different copies of my websitetemplate to maintain.

So with LinuxLefty.com, I ended abandoning all CMS’s (although the oneI did like the best was ModX. It is asolid system with great hack-ability) and creating my own system. It isvery simple and works very well. I am able to easily change my templateand instantly (with some minor tweaking) my blog and photo album areusing the same template as well. The only problem I was having was thatthe code was ugly. HTML code is fine, but it became a chore to edit thepages as I had all kinds of divs and html tags floating around. So, Ichanged two things in my templating system and now it is much easier toedit my site!

Firstly, I cleaned up my CSS a little. I looked for ways to reduce tagsby being smart with my CSS. I noticed I was using several tags togetherso I condensed their CSS so I only needed a single tag. Then Iinstalled thePHP-Markdownmarkup library. This enabled me to get rid of a lot of my HTML and havea much cleaner syntax. For example, here is a bit of my website beforerenovating my templating system:

[geshi lang=html]

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The designs presented here are given away for free; you are free to do anything you want with them, as long as it complies with the following restrictions:

You may freely distribute, but not sell the templates.
I remain the copyright holder of all my designs; don’t take credit for my work
If you wish to use a design for a commercial purpose, please contact me to obtain my permission. I don’t charge for commercial usage, but I don’t want my designs to be used on sites which sell adult or offensive products / services.

Although, not required, I would really appreciate a link back to http://www.LinuxLefty.com/ on all pages that the template is used.

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It’s fine, but it’s not exactly easy to wade through all the HTML. So,I installed markdown and behold:

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The designs presented here are given away for free; you are free to do anything you want with them, as long as it complies with the following restrictions:

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Quite nice, don’t you think?

So, I’m very happy with my templating system. It works well for me andnow it is easier to use

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            <h1 class="serendipity_date">Monday, February 26. 2007</h3>

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    <p>Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which is the best distro of them all?</p>

My hosting provider recently upgraded everyone’s month bandwidth limit to 2 Terabytes. I wasn’t sure what to do with all this extra bandwidth, so I decided be help mirror some popular but under-mirrored Linux distributions. Currently I am hosting 4 different “flavors” of Linux:

These can all be downloaded at http://www.linuxlefty.com/projects/mirrors

Last month, my bandwidth usage was 82 Meg. However, yesterday alone I used up 100 Gigs of bandwidth. Hopefully this will take a little load off of the projects’ main servers

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            <h1 class="serendipity_date">Monday, January 22. 2007</h3>

            <h2 class="title serendipity_title"><a href="/blog/archives/3-School-Starts!.html">School Starts!</a></h2>

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    <p>Well,</p>

It’s that time of year and school is kicking into full gear. This semester will be quite difficult for me, but I’m really excited since I’m almost done with school ! Here are the classes that I’m taking:

Biology 213: Cell Structure & Function
CS 450: Database Concepts
English 302: Advanced Composition
Math 214: Elementary Differential Equations
Music 101: Introduction to Classical Music
PHED 134: Self Defense for Men & Women (I’m taking this with Natalie)
Chinese: I’m trying to learn some Chinese via an online tutor

Lots of fun classes!

Also, I finally got a photo album up on my website! Now I can show off my cool family

Here are some of my favorite pictures:

The three of us older kids having fun

Abby and Amanda being best friends

Our entire family

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