Monday, April 11, 2005
Documentation
For those who don't follow geek speak, allow me to elucidate a couple of subtle points.
The title of my blog is "pacho source code". Like reading the source code can help one to understand how a program behaves, this space will be used as a window into what makes me tick.
The second point is about my first posting, "Hello, World!". The Hello-World program is usually the first program folks learning a programming language execute. It simply prints "Hello, World!" to the screen. I couldn't help it. Sorry from the inner geek.
Anyways, I digress from the topic at hand: "Documentation". Why am I blogging?
This may come as a shock (since I am a ph.d. student), but my memory is pretty poor. So, it is important for me to document things - writing events in the calendar, taking pictures from vacations, etc. One my fav songs these days is "Take a picture" by Filter where he asks "could you take my picture - 'Cuz I won't remember". This blog format seems like an easy way for me document important thoughts and events on the web, without having to code html. As you may know, I've been trying to keep things current on my webpage. But, it's difficult. Recently, I have shifted from personally-made Travel-logs to simply posting my pictures captionless on Yahoo!Photos. Hopefully, this forum (with the help of Picasa and Hello from Google) will facilitate an intermediate ground where I show a few select pictures with some commentary.
Besides, it's good practice to keep good notes. I have learned this good lesson several times now as a grad student. Trying to remember exactly what you did in an experiment several months ago is very difficult if you don't take copious notes. :P
The title of my blog is "pacho source code". Like reading the source code can help one to understand how a program behaves, this space will be used as a window into what makes me tick.
The second point is about my first posting, "Hello, World!". The Hello-World program is usually the first program folks learning a programming language execute. It simply prints "Hello, World!" to the screen. I couldn't help it. Sorry from the inner geek.
Anyways, I digress from the topic at hand: "Documentation". Why am I blogging?
This may come as a shock (since I am a ph.d. student), but my memory is pretty poor. So, it is important for me to document things - writing events in the calendar, taking pictures from vacations, etc. One my fav songs these days is "Take a picture" by Filter where he asks "could you take my picture - 'Cuz I won't remember". This blog format seems like an easy way for me document important thoughts and events on the web, without having to code html. As you may know, I've been trying to keep things current on my webpage. But, it's difficult. Recently, I have shifted from personally-made Travel-logs to simply posting my pictures captionless on Yahoo!Photos. Hopefully, this forum (with the help of Picasa and Hello from Google) will facilitate an intermediate ground where I show a few select pictures with some commentary.
Besides, it's good practice to keep good notes. I have learned this good lesson several times now as a grad student. Trying to remember exactly what you did in an experiment several months ago is very difficult if you don't take copious notes. :P
