To say that I’ve been terrible at updating my blog would be an understatement. However, I do want to make a concerted effort to maintain this page starting from now (read: next year)

I have some plans for blog posts and hope I can find the time and energy to complete them.

What to expect?

Some of the things I want to post here are as follows:

• Book reviews (once I start reading regularly again)
• Photos of the places I visit
• Track my fitness journey (running and climbing)
• Talk about my career and my experiences working in the bay area

These ideas are by no means fleshed out and will probably be a slow process that rolls out throughout the course of the year as I figure things out along the way.

It’s the journey that counts, right?

A few days ago I was trying to download a bunch of images off of some website listing the best jazz and blues albums of the last 100 years.

I wrote a small Bash script to download all the images in bulk. I was reminded of the first time I actually used Bash to make my life easier.

I had just transferred to the University of Guelph and was enrolled in CIS 2750 - Software Systems Development and Integration. My professor, like many other CS instructors had a strong disdain for the school’s web portal and posted his lecture notes on his own website.

I had to write a self extracting installation script for the course project, which was incredibly cool. It also exposed me to the wonders of scripting!

Here’s the script I wrote to download all of the course notes. I felt like a damn wizard.

curl "http://www.uoguelph.ca/~dmccaugh/teaching/CIS2750/Notes/"  # Get HTML from McCaughan's site
| grep -e "\.pdf"                                                # Find all the pdf files
| grep -v "labs"                                                 # Remove lab pdfs
| cut -d"\"" -f 2                                                # Get file names
| while read -r fileurl ;                                        # Loop over file names and download them into current dir
      do curl -O "http://www.uoguelph.ca/~dmccaugh/teaching/CIS2750/Notes/$fileurl";
        done

Hello, world!

I’ve never been much of a blogger, but after writing more for the Ontarion this past term, I’ve decided to blog more. It’s not the new year yet, but I think this is a good start.

Today also happens to be December 25th, so Merry Christmas everyone!

For the sake of testing syntax highlighting in Jekyll, here are some Hello World programs:

In C:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, const char* argv[]){
	printf("Hello, world!\n");
	return 0;	
}

In Java:

class HelloWorld{
	public static void main(String[] args){
		System.out.println("Hello, world!");
	}
}

In Python:

def helloWorld():
	print ('Hello, world!')