Author: topher23

Autocomplete

My experiences with autocomplete have been generally good. I have been using autocomplete on smart devices since 2007 and to be frank, it has been quite a roller coaster of a ride. Initially, google had a generic autocorrect that would correct words and every time you wanted a ‘replacement’ word instead of it (ex: they […]

The More It Snows…

What I did: * Cleaned up headers to look more organized and presentable * Added About-Me page for hockey and computer engineering * Added personal photo in About-Me page Why I did it: I added a photo in the About-Me page so that the readers can get a good idea of who their writer is […]

The Snow Begins

What I did: Peer reviewed with a classmate on my site as well as hers. I fixed a few typos that needed to be fixed added pages for other important things in required for the site. Why I did it: I made the changes I did in order to coincide with the elements required for […]

Today’s Activities

What I did: Updated my About Me page and created a colophon page. Why I did it: The colophon page was added to create a basic knowledge base where viewers of my site can see various owners of everything. They can see where the theme is if they like that and they can see the […]

Code Update

Many people were asking if I could post the code to my Embedded Systems project on my github. In short, the answer is no. In long the answer is, I am using git as a version control mechanism, but putting my code out in the public for others to view while others are writing essentially […]

Milestone #1

Milestone #1 was due for my ece 4534 course today. my group ad I have spent numerous hours in the embedded lab getting it done. The goal of this milestone was to set up some sort of connection between our PIC microcontrollers and our computers. I chose to show that communication off through an i2c […]

Blogging From The Deep 2015-02-11 12:02:42

Here are the top ten multimodal texts located in my backpack: 1. Wallet – Visual, Gestural, Spacial 2. Sunglasses – Visual 3. Headphones – Aural, Visual 4. Power cord – Visual, Gestural, Spacial 5. Portfolio folder & documents within – Linguistic, Spacial 6. Newspaper – Linguistic, Visual, Spacial 7. Reddit iPhone App – Linguistic, Visual, […]

Updates

Today I updated my menubars at the top of the screen, created an about post that describes a little about me, and added category tags to posts. I added the menubar options at the top of the blog in order to add some direction and order to the blog. I felt that having everything just […]

This is Me

My name is Christopher Dorick! I am a senior at Virginia Tech majoring in Computer Engineering and minoring in English Professional Writing. This blog is meant to be a place where I talk about the work required for my engl3844 class as well as put my thoughts out on the table as I progress through […]

Themes Themes Themes!

What I did: I chose a theme titled “The Chunk Theme” for my blog which gives off a simplistic appearance to my site. Why I did it: I chose the theme I did because I am a fan of simplicity when it comes to aesthetics. I am not a fan of a bunch of convoluted […]