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| author | Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com> |
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| date | Thu, 30 Jan 2014 21:44:15 -0600 |
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| 1 About | |
| 2 ===== | |
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| 4 Hello! My name is Brian Neal. By day I am a real-time, embedded C++ programmer. By night and | |
| 5 on the weekends I like to hack on interesting projects in Python_. Right now I am mainly | |
| 6 focused on web development. | |
| 7 | |
| 8 My interests in web development began several years ago when I started a community-based | |
| 9 website for instrumental surf music fans. I simply downloaded a popular PHP CMS system, set | |
| 10 it up, and opened shop. Very quickly bugs appeared. "No problem", I thought, "I'm a programmer, | |
| 11 I can fix this." Opening up that code in a text editor was quite shocking and disappointing. | |
| 12 It was obvious I had chosen a framework built by amatuers with no concern for security, efficiency, | |
| 13 standards, or any kind of software engineering discipline. I spent about 2 years working on the | |
| 14 code with a group of dedicated enthusiasts, but eventually grew tired of the sprawling, cut & paste | |
| 15 spaghetti code. It was simply too broken and too tedious to make fundamental changes. | |
| 16 | |
| 17 I started looking around for other alternatives and discoved Django_. I had some limited experience | |
| 18 with Python from work, and Django looked incredibly useful. Django allowed me to concentrate more | |
| 19 on my application and less on the "grunt work." Once I had created a small website for a friend's | |
| 20 band, I knew I was hooked. I then sent out on a nearly 2 year mission to rewrite my growing website | |
| 21 with Django and Python. The rewrite finally went live about 2 weeks before I attended my first | |
| 22 PyCon_ in 2011. | |
| 23 | |
| 24 This blog will be mainly about my experiences in web development and Python. C++ and my day job may | |
| 25 sneak into the blog from time to time as well. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to | |
| 26 contact me via any of the links in the sidebar or by email (*bgneal at gmail dot com*). | |
| 27 | |
| 28 Disclaimer | |
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| 31 I hope this is obvious, but please bear with me. This blog reflects my own personal opinions and | |
| 32 not those of any past, present, or future employers. I hope the information found herein is useful | |
| 33 to others, but I may in fact be on crack and I make no warranties of any nature. This blog is a | |
| 34 snapshot of my thoughts in time. I may change my mind as I learn more and gain further | |
| 35 experience. | |
| 36 | |
| 37 Some blog posts may allow comments. Please note that I reserve the right to remove comments for any | |
| 38 reason at any time. | |
| 39 | |
| 40 Colophon | |
| 41 -------- | |
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| 43 This blog was created with Pelican_, Python_, reStructuredText_, Mercurial_, | |
| 44 Vim_, Fabric_, and Bootstrap_. | |
| 45 | |
| 46 .. _Python: http://python.org | |
| 47 .. _Django: http://djangoproject.com | |
| 48 .. _PyCon: http://us.pycon.org | |
| 49 .. _Pelican: http://getpelican.com/ | |
| 50 .. _Bootstrap: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ | |
| 51 .. _reStructuredText: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html | |
| 52 .. _Mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/ | |
| 53 .. _Fabric: http://fabfile.org | |
| 54 .. _Vim: http://www.vim.org |