{"id":8,"date":"2006-05-16T00:41:42","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T04:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unitstep.net\/about\/"},"modified":"2016-01-29T18:40:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T23:40:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Peter Chng"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the personal website of Peter Chng (me), a guy currently working as a software developer. My job mainly has me working with anything to do with Java<\/a>, but in my spare time I also like playing with Python<\/a>, Golang<\/a>, JavaScript<\/a>, PHP<\/acronym><\/a> and other languages\/technologies related to web development. <\/p>\n

I went to school at Queen’s University<\/a> in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where I obtained a degree in Electrical Engineering<\/a>. If you search around the ECE site there, you may find my name pop up in reference to my time as a research assistant there during my undergraduate years. I thoroughly enjoyed all my years at Queen’s, both for the people I met and the surroundings. Kingston itself is also a very nice city, not being too big or too small – it was just the right size for me. <\/p>\n

If you’re at all considering Queen’s for a school, I can wholeheartedly recommend it, especially for any engineering program. I know I may be a bit biased, but the school spirit is strong and you’ll have no problem fitting in. Another upside is the neighbourhood that surrounds the university: It’s mostly student-housing, so chances are you’ll be able to find a house with your buddies that’s within walking distance of campus, and still be surrounded by other students! When I was there, I was within 5-10 minutes of all my classes, which was good, because I love sleeping and hate taking the bus.<\/p>\n

Most of my (extra-curricular) interests lie somewhere within this website: I’ve always loved playing with computers, and enjoying learning about new web-technologies and how they serve to impact society. Web-development has also been a keen interest of mine, every since I could program and I have always seen web technologies as a very useful platform for application development.<\/p>\n

My other interests mainly lie in reading anything that’s remotely interesting, and a little sports (mainly in the form of ultimate frisbee.) I also play the piano and find it relaxing, though I’m not very good at it. Running also consumes a good amount of my time and I hope to be able to run a marathon one day. Hopefully, I’ll be able to, with enough training and dedication!<\/p>\n

I’m also currently a reviewer\/writer for Virtual-Hideout<\/a>, a site dedicated to delivering tech reviews and articles every week. I enjoy writing, and this is one of the ways I exercise that past time. You can see my recent reviews here<\/a>, listed in chronological order. <\/p>\n

Lastly, feel free to check out my presence on Stack Overflow<\/a>:
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This site, unitstep.net<\/a>, was mainly created as a place for me to spend time on my hobby of web-development and to improve my skills in that area. As always, I’m still learning new stuff everyday, and to me, it’s exciting to have a sort of sandbox where you can experiment with new ideas and techniques to see if they’re useful; even if they’re not, it can still be fun.<\/p>\n

The other role of this site is just for me to write on topics I find of interest. (Yes, that means blogging.) Whether or not you find them to be interesting is up to you, but I see this site as a sort of journal that’s open to view for everyone – and I always welcome feedback!<\/p>\n

On the technical side of things, this site is run on an Apache\/Linux setup using WordPress<\/a> to manage the content, which in turn runs on PHP<\/acronym><\/a> and uses MySQL<\/a> for the backend. Most of these technologies are open-source or free, so that may be why they are so popular. That, and they work great! I chose WordPress because it was written in PHP<\/acronym>, a language that I’m familiar with – this in turn eased the task of customization; I’m also familiar with SQL, so I felt right at home. I’m still an amateur at graphic design, so that’s why this site is mostly devoid of any design images.<\/p>\n

The icons<\/a> used on this site were designed by famfamfam<\/a>. As mentioned before, my graphic skills are lacking, so any attempt at icon design would have resulted in mass damage to this site and possibly people’s eyes. <\/p>\n

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