I’ve accidentally skipped writing here about things that I’ve done here and there. It’s easy to to not follow up after someone puts up a post or a video that is easy to point to, in the thought that the content speaks for itself. But in reality, there’s usually more to say. Often times, you just have to dig under the surface, ask questions, and look for connections. Anyhoo, here’s one such set of things that are related to each other (and related by design!).
Category: web
I think my understanding of programming languages — ex: what role do they serve in tech engineering work, what my favorite language is — is something that continues to evolve, and has done so once more recently. Here is where I started from and where I stand:
Turnkey Linux
After all of the work for a manual installation of WP, when revisiting the Ubuntu Comm. page on WP, I noticed Turnkey Linux, saw their website, and read this Linux Journal review about them. Granted, Ubuntu/Debian is as close to an “It just works” TM user-friendly Linux distro as you’ll find. And WordPress seems to dominate the blogging software scene, and they’ve certain done well to make the installation quite (brain)dead-simple. But it’s still not as simple as it is to install a Mac app.
Publishing the last post was quite an ordeal, and not because of anything related to the content. Installing WordPress on Ubuntu was a bit more challenging for me than I thought it would be. For those of you who may be running into the same issues I did, here is a run-down of what I did and what I had to change.
I started playing around with Khan Academy’s exercise framework. If I am successful in figuring this out sufficiently, the efforts would be applied for teaching a foreign language (Thamil) rather than teaching math. I had gotten the basic case figured out — a single-question, question-answer exercise. From there, I inserted Thamil characters and saved the HTML doc into UTF-16 encoding, and by then, I experienced serious errors. Fortunately, it didn’t take much more than learning the basics of Unicode and a little poking around to figure it out, fix the issue, and get a better understanding of how it all fits together.
Sequenced Thoughts from C/S 