{"id":2,"date":"2010-04-20T21:25:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T04:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.43.101.63:24469\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-03-05T01:37:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T09:37:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aarontc.com\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Me<\/h2>\n<p>My name is Aaron. A few years ago I completed two Bachelor of Science degrees at Oregon Institute of Technology &#8211; one in Computer Hardware Engineering and another in Computer Software Engineering. I am very interested in all aspects of computing and how electronics can enhance life. I spend a lot of free time tinkering with software and electronics projects. Everything from relational databases to FPGAs to microcontrollers cross my path on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>I also dabble in photography, massively-distributed computing efforts and distributed filesystems. I have extensive experience with many scripting and compiled programming languages. PHP, Ruby, C, C++, and C#, just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>My blog&#8217;s purpose is to showcase some of the more interesting projects I&#8217;ve created or collaborated on. I believe strongly in open source, and I try to share the code for all the projects I&#8217;ve created, along with documentation to make it useful.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"\/contact-me\/\">contact me<\/a> with any questions or comments.<\/p>\n<h2>About This Site<\/h2>\n<p>This site aims to share my ambitions with the world. I want all my source code available for public review,\u00a0scrutiny, and improvement. While most of my projects are small and fairly niche, I know how helpful it is when I&#8217;m trying something new to find someone&#8217;s code that does something similar &#8211; hopefully something I&#8217;ve done will offer the same assistance to others.<\/p>\n<h3>Technology Used<\/h3>\n<p>This site is powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>; a free, open-source PHP\/MySQL content management system with emphasis on blogging. In addition to WordPress, several other contributors should be recognized:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a>: Free anti-spam system that keeps the bad guys from defacing this place \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/contactform7.com\/\">Contact Form 7<\/a>: The free plugin behind the <a href=\"\/contact-me\">contact me page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-popular-posts\">WordPress Popular Posts<\/a>: The free plugin which powers the popular posts widget on the right side of each page.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blaenkdenum.com\/wp-recaptcha\/\">WP-reCAPTCHA<\/a>: The free plugin which connects to the <a href=\"http:\/\/recaptcha.net\/\">reCAPTCHA<\/a> service to deter spammers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.aakash.me\/index.php\/2010\/01\/wp-likes-3-0-a-glimpse\/\">WP like<\/a>s: The free plugin that supports the &#8220;Likes&#8221; statistic on each page.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ronangelo.com\/\">Asteroid<\/a> theme by ronangelo.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And on the backend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighttpd.net\/\">LigHTTPd<\/a>: A fast, free web server that&#8217;s really quick.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysql.com\/\">MySQL<\/a>: An open-source relational database engine that&#8217;s amazingly popular.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.php.net\/\">PHP<\/a>: An open-source web scripting language that&#8217;s fast!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/\">Gentoo Linux<\/a>: My favorite Linux distribution, combining the best of configurability and ease of management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I feel it&#8217;s important to recognize the effort I&#8217;ve borrowed to make this site a better place. It seems too many sites take the hard work of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/about\/\">WordPress team<\/a> and plugin authors for granted. To all of you: I appreciate your work! Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Me My name is Aaron. A few years ago I completed two Bachelor of Science degrees at Oregon Institute of Technology &#8211; one in Computer Hardware Engineering and another in Computer Software Engineering. I am very interested in all aspects of computing and how electronics can enhance life. 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