Laurence A. Lee

Male

Honolulu

United States

Profile Information:

Occupation:: Blogger / Vlogger / New Media Writer, Consultant, Software Developer, Web Developer
Company:: Lalee Consulting LLC
Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):: Linux, Ruby, Mobile Device development (iPhone, Droid, etc), Social Network Application development, Programming Language Theory (language constructs, compiler theory), and Green/Renewable Energy
Software Language Proficiencies / Interests:: C, C#, HTML, Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, Visual Basic, XML
About Me:: Aloha! I’m Laurence A. Lee, a freelance Technical Solutions Architect -- more commonly known as a “Software Engineer on Steroids” -- located in Honolulu, Hawaii.

I am a certified Enterprise Applications Developer, at least, according to Microsoft.

I am also a Fedora (Linux) Ambassador for Hawaii and I’d imagine a fair portion of the Pacific Rim. I may be able to provide free Fedora Linux DVDs and some Technical Assistance in the local area, but please, don’t ask me for free hats. :-)

I am nothing special to Apple. OK, that’s not entirely true. I am an Apple Developer with an iPhone Developer’s Kit. And I darn well know how to use it, too, so watch out!

For work, I write code. For fun, I… write even more code.

I can develop code for a wide variety of platforms, from obscure novelties like Xbox-Linux, to Commercial Enterprise platforms like Microsoft Dynamics, SharePoint Server, and Windows, to the bleeding-edge of open-source like Ruby on Rails 3 on Ruby 1.9.
Website:: http://www.lalee.net
Secondary Website:: http://www.not404.com
Twitter Username: rubyjedi

Comment Wall:

Mika Leuck

Welcome Laurence! I really enjoyed reading your nont404 blog, especially the RoR related posts.

You may be interested in joining the Renewable Energy, Linux, Ruby, C/C++, .NET, Java, Javascript, PHP, Rails Hackers, Ruby, and DB Developers groups.

We hope to see you in the groups and forums!

Jul 22, 2008
aaron kagawa

welcome to the group. i just added your blog to my google reader. thanks.

Jul 22, 2008
Daniel Leuck

Only a Pet Lover Would Understand . . .

ROFL. Thank goodness cats don't have opposable thumbs :-) Ah, I miss having a pet.

Jul 23, 2008
Truman Leung

Hey nice skin for your page.

Jul 29, 2008
aaron kagawa

hey, Laurence. thanks for joining the ICS mentors group. did you graduate from the ICS department?

Aug 18, 2008
Kurt Sussman

I always want to keep as much of what I earn as possible, and I assume everyone else does too. I'm happy to share the tricks I've learned. I hope the royalty trick is useful to you.

Aug 25, 2008
Greg Hester

Hi Laurence. Thanks for attend the Eclipse User's Group meeting this past Tuesday. Your expertise in Ruby really added to the discussion. Be sure to join the Eclipse Group here at TechHui so you can keep up with whats going on there.

Nov 20, 2008
Bill Spencer

Hey Laurence, I wondered if that was you. Nice to heare from you. I hope all is well with you. Someday if you are in the mood for a long sad story, I will tell you how the MedSurf thing all worked out. The Reader's Digest condensed version is that the Doc screwed me big time! Have a great 2009!
Bill

Jan 9, 2009
Nate Sanders

Good talk/good meeting at the LUG. I'm going to download Fedora and possibly CentOS and install as a vmware fusion image.

I've been wanting to standardize on a single platform for a particular project -- teaching a computer vision/OpenCV class. Even in the latest Ubuntu, there's not good support for UVC (Universal Video Class -- a new USB device class, similar to what mass storage was for storage devices -- single driver) webcams. V4L is in kind of a weird state right now, it seems. I may end up just forgetting about getting any sort of standard platform and instead write a statically-linked UVC framegrabber and have people hit that with Python's OpenCV bindings, as C/C++ don't seem to be too big in Honolulu. I may write a blog post on TechHui later when I work out all the details.

In any case, good that we have a LUG now.

Feb 18, 2009
Nate Sanders

Oh yeah -- if you're ever feeling bored, write a review of the Hele. I'd love to get a critical review of it-- particularly interested in latency characteristics as I make heavy use of ssh.

Feb 18, 2009
Mika Leuck

Thank you for sharing with us at the LUG and on TechHui!

Feb 18, 2009
Daniel Leuck

To others checking out Laurence's page - We highly recommend him for Linux sys admin work. He is an absolute pro.

Feb 23, 2009
Fred Baclig

seen you mention Sinatra in one of your comments, it's great stuff!

Mar 12, 2009