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Learning a programming language – C#

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:14:18 +0000

So after diving into the Programming in LUA book, I decided a better foundation of programming was needed. I read reviews on the book Programming in the Key of C#, A Primer for Aspiring Programmers and decided to pick it up. I just finished it and can say it is definitely great for a beginning programmer, it does get quite technical as you get towards the end but I was still able to follow along. Now I’m going to jump into a book that provides more example based learning as opposed to the more theory and foundation. Below you’ll find a link to the book at Amazon, I highly recommend it for any aspiring C# programmers.

ESXi finally installed.

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:15:41 +0000

I was able to get ESXI 4.1 installed on a Dell SC1425. Not much horsepower but once I can add some more RAM I should be able to get a few machines running smoothly on it. My main goal is to collect performance metrics so just getting the machines online and stable will be a big help.

ESXi on a ASUS P5WD2-E motherboard with SATA RAID

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:15:13 +0000

So, I spent about two hours trying to get ESXi running on my spare PC. I installed two brand new 1TB drives in a RAID array and went to work. I tried many of the suggestions at VM-HELP but was never able to get it working successfully. I went ahead and decided to install Windows 2008 on one of the drives (I broke the array) and will install plain old VMServer instead. I plan to use a few virtual machines to setup my monitoring guests.

Programming in LUA

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:01:54 +0000

So I’ve decided to try and learn LUA without a true comprehension of all aspects of programming. I’ve done some simple PHP stuff and also used Auto-it quite heavily but I’ve never really been able to dedicate the time to learn a complete language like C# or VB. I’m currently reading ‘Programming in Lua’ by Roberto Ierusalimschy and after about the 7th chapter I’ve realized I may be in over my head as it assumes a programming background with most of its terminology and pace. I may have to revisit my strategy and start back at the beginning and learn the ins and outs of programming before jumping into LUA. I will be looking at picking up some sort of beginning programming book this weekend, maybe I can read both at the same time.