Finally, I have decided what I would like to do with this blog. I will use it to store notes on how to do various (technical) things. Often, I need to work out the details of how to install and configure a package, how to make use of some software library, or how to implement some tricky algorithm. Like many people, I often rely on resources I find on the web to help me. Some of those resources are excellent, but some are incomplete, old, misleading, or have other problems. I’m thinking I’d like to use this blog to give back to the Internet community by sharing interesting tidbits that I have discovered, leaving them here for others to find.
For this idea to work, I will need to include blocks of fixed-width text in these entries for showing commands, program text, and similar things. I may also need to include images (diagrams, for example). Let me see if I can figure out how to do that using the editor WordPress provides…
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main( void )
{
printf("Hello, World!\n");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}How does that look? It’s not terrible. I feel like the lines might look better if they were a bit closer together, but I assume that’s under the control of a style that I can adjust later, if necessary.
Here is a link to the web site I maintain for my classes at Vermont Technical College. It’s good to see that linking is easy (of course!).
New Section
It is, of course important to create lists when describing procedures:
- Get ready. You can’t do anything useful without preparing yourself first.
- Do the thing. Once you are ready, go ahead and do it.
- Clean up the mess. There is always a mess afterward that needs to be cleaned up.
That sums up the procedure that must be followed for most things. Nothing more needs to be said. All future posts will only provide elaborations on, and examples of, the universal procedure above.
Okay, I get the general idea. I see there are many other editing features that I can use. I think I can work with this.
Technically Rambling 