Sorting out Makefiles

Currently I’m playing around in C#, which involves creating a collection of files holding source code and feeding all of this code into the compiler.  The concept is pretty standard, where it gets wonky is that I bounce between the Microsoft and the Mono .Net frameworks.  It quickly became clear I needed something to help me sort out which commands to use when I bounce between environments.  Make has been working brilliantly for this.

More salutations!

I have been kindly invited to contribute here, in large part because I share the goals of the proprietor: I love learning stuff, because learning is all kinds of fun, but having to re-learn is the pits. Having a dedicated place to keep a record of my progress is beneficial not only for me, but hopefully for others as well!

So what am I likely to post about? I'm trying to improve my cooking skills and recipe catalogue, for starters. I am deeply interested in fibre arts, ranging from knitting and needlepoint to weaving and hopefully spinning. I love my garden, and have been learning about what can grow in the southeastern US for the past few years. I am absolutely passionate about fermentation in all its forms: bread, yogurt, cheese, kimchi, pickles, sauerkraut, kombucha, you name it!

My professional interests are a little different. I'm training up my abilities and knowledge of mySQL, Perl, and the statistical modeling language R. Matlab might be in my sights soon. I may get into reviews of papers in my field if the mood strikes me.

So that's what I'm about, and what I'm most likely to write about here. There will probably be kitty pics from time to time, as well as miscellaneous fandom type things. Please let me know if anything I post here helps you out!

Salutations!

Hello and welcome!  You've managed to find your way here, but what is this place?

I like to try new things and learn new techniques for the stuff that I know how to do.  But who doesn't?  Learning new stuff is fun.  I just tend to do it the hard way, by which I mean figuring it out myself.  Oh sure, I search around to get information to get me started, but once I've read the basics I work out the rest through experimentation.

I'm not always great at taking notes, and when I do take notes I don't store them in a way which makes them easy to find.  Which brings us back to the purpose of this blog.  It gives me a reason, as well as a place, to record how to do the stuff I figured out.  It'll save me from relearning it later on, and perhaps might help to inform other folks working on similar problems.

There's a lot of stuff to learn about though, what sort of topics can you expect to read about here?  My personal projects tend to drift as different things catch my attention; currently I'm trying to learn how to draw things, cooking techniques and recipes, as well as programming.

Whatever project I'm working on I'll probably be writing about.  Explaining some new trick I'm using or perhaps autopsying a complete failure.  We'll see how it goes and how successful this all turns out.