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Migrating an Ubuntu Karmic installation from SD to SSHD

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Migrating an Ubuntu Karmic installation from SD to SSHD

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RAM and Computer Power Supplies needed... DESPERATELY

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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:

I'm a Microsoft Certified Enterprise Applications Developer (MCPD: Enterprise Applications Developer), but my passion is in Ruby on Rails on Linux -- particularly on RedHat, Fedora, or CentOS.

I am working on "my big Startup Idea" in my free time; otherwise, I am working as a "Hired Gun" consultant on any .NET, Ruby on Rails, or Linux needs that come my way.

I also rescue projects that were primed by inexperienced teams - which is surprisingly frequent in Hawaii.

As an experienced "Enterprise" developer, I probably know how a thing or two about how to put together a rock-solid solution. At least, I like to think so. ;-)

Website:

http://www.lalee.net

Secondary Website:

http://www.not404.com

Twitter Username

rubyjedi

Laurence A. Lee's Blog

HOWTO: Boycott Oceanic Cable and Save a Bundle

Introduction
Having grown up in Hawaii, I've seen some of how Television has evolved in the local markets. Rabbit Ears and UHF "Hoop Antennas"? Yep, been there, done that, and spent many afternoons of my youth faithfully watching "Checkers and Pogo", hoping no airplanes fly overhead to jam up the TV signal. As I remember it, Hawaii TV pretty much boiled down to… Continue

Posted on February 26, 2009 at 4:59pm — 23 Comments

I Love Rails, but I Hate its Popularity

Despite the fact that Ruby on Rails has been around since 2004, I'm still surprised and dismayed at how many "Amateurs" (or non-Passionate Coders as Stephen McMahon recently blogged about) are trying to get into Ruby on Rails.

Much like what Stephen encountered, I seem to be rescuing a lot of Rails Projects recently, with Ruby code made to "look like" an older, more established language.

One recent code snippet I came acros… Continue

Posted on November 11, 2008 at 9:30am — 11 Comments

LOLCats Entrepreneurs Featured in the Star Bulletin

In case you missed it.. http://starbulletin.com/2008/09/21/business/engle.html. Congrats, Kari and Eric. I hope your success story inspires others to make their own success stories, doing something they truly enjoy.

Sadly, though, my cat won't eat cheeseburgers... but she LOOOOVES her kakimochi.

In fact, she won't leave me alone when I break open a bag.. see? ;-)… Continue

Posted on September 22, 2008 at 8:00am — 3 Comments

Why Not Audit the Smear Claims?

Sorry, but I had to get this off my chest. All these last-minute bullets are flying around in the Mayor's Race, with respect to Panos Prevedouros and the StopRailNow effort.

At the heart of the issue is a controversial website, FirePanos, which smears Panos and the SRN Campaign with poorly Photoshopped images, and inciteful language that's not worth repeating. Suffice it to say, it's another ASS (Anonymous Smear Site) hiding behind the First Amendment. Of particular interest is the speculation… Continue

Posted on September 19, 2008 at 10:00am — 12 Comments

Thoughts on Running a SAAS Business From Hawaii

First, let me say that I'm not trying to short-sell Tech Businesses in Hawaii.

On the surface, it just seems to me that Hawaii is not the ideal place to incorporate in order to operate a SAAS (Software as a Service) Business. This glaring fact echoes in my mind louder and louder, as I'm approaching Critical Mass on "Project TokiDoki".

'Doki is one of my self-funded software projects that I've put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into. OK, maybe not blood and sweat.. but it sure was a hell of a… Continue

Posted on August 22, 2008 at 8:00am — 7 Comments

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At 10:32am on October 23, 2009, Gus Higuera said…: Nice, thanks for the hammer pants!

At 4:31pm on July 7, 2009, Nathaniel Kinney said…: Mahalo Laurence for your thoughtful response to my blog post. I really liked the technology to create transparency part. We definitely have a lot of other changes to make at the city government level. Unfortunately, I think the only alternative, for now, is to get different people into office.

At 1:41pm on March 14, 2009, Fred "derfie" Baclig said…: Great, will do! I actually do have a favorite framework it's web.py and then django and I just recently wondered into the Ruby world recently.

I just finished up writing a little flickr like application in sinatra(complete with users and search) on my local server. It feels "clean" =P

At 12:59pm on March 12, 2009, Fred "derfie" Baclig said…: The world of web development is so much more fun than desktop apps, lol. But, it looks like I'm going to be more busy reading up on all these different new/exciting frameworks.

BTW: do you know of any places that are looking for a intern ruby/python web developer? I'm looking to get some experience under my belt so, I'm ready to hit the ground running after graduation.

At 3:04am on March 12, 2009, Fred "derfie" Baclig said…: seen you mention Sinatra in one of your comments, it's great stuff!

At 11:40am on February 23, 2009, Daniel Leuck said…: To others checking out Laurence's page - We highly recommend him for Linux sys admin work. He is an absolute pro.

At 5:58am on February 18, 2009, Mika Leuck said…: Thank you for sharing with us at the LUG and on TechHui!

At 1:06am on February 18, 2009, Nate Sanders said…: 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.

At 1:03am on February 18, 2009, Nate Sanders said…: 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.

At 1:59pm on February 11, 2009, Mika Leuck said…: Sorry for the delay. Today is really crazy. We can provide the room, a projector and bottled water. You are welcome to bring pupus.

For the other user group meetings the organizer (Jerome) usually welcomes everyone, has everyone briefly introduce themselves (if its a small group), introduces the presenter (Laurence) and then the presenter takes over. After the presentation you can open the group to questions, comments, and networking.

Of course its your meeting. These are just suggestions based on the other groups we've hosted.