Hello World
A new year, and new website. This looks to be a promising year for myself and my family. I am on track to graduate this fall, and have several projects that I hope to get going as well. I hope with this blog to document my progress in these aspects of my life as I pursue them this year, and this will return dividends two fold.
I will be very very motivated to not look like a quitter after announcing that I am going to do something. If I put in writing, it shall be done.
Maybe I can drum up some interest in these various projects, get some help, and even some feedback as they evolve.
Extra Bonus: My friends and family get to see the results of those hours of banging away on my computers while they watch TV, play outside, and sleep.
Most of the code that I work on is available on my github account, including this website. So heres a rundown of the current projects, most of which I have started in the past 3 weeks.
JustinBlog: powers this website. I've been fascinated with python web development since I first started looking into the language last summer. Being a web developer, I've been pretty fed up with the verbosity and inflexibility of popular "Enterprise" frameworks. I'm not a big Rails fan, and Django reminded me alot of that, then I stumbled across WebPy. Simplistic and somewhat elegant, I can craft something very simple (like this site), and build up even more complex applications, such as a CMS (this site's goal) or a social network (everybody's dream).
Project Euler: This is a great math/programming site where they present a problem that can be solved algorithmly(?). You can write the programs in any language you'd like, and track your own progress. I've chosen to do the problems in Common Lisp. I've solved the first one already, and will be keeping a project with the accompanying code on github as well. I've heard and can vouch for the fact that solving these problems can be a great way to learn a language.
WetherVue: This a proof of concept web application that uses Google Maps to show data sets that are help locally. Also serves as a useful comparison tool for the V2 and V3 of the Google Maps API.
As I get new project ideas started, I'll update them here. Happy belated New Year everyone.