Cassidy James

Cassidy James Blaede is a member of the elementary Council and helps to manage the elementary community. He's long been a supporter of open source software and wrote Using Ubuntu: A Simple Guide. He's used Linux in general since 2006, but specifically Ubuntu since 7.04 and elementary OS since Jupiter. When he's not writing, taking classes, or hanging out, Cassidy programs websites for Webspec Design (a web development company in the US).

#katiek

Katie (Twitter trending topic #katiek) is Cassidy's girlfriend who enjoys baking, playing with kittens, long walks on the beach (in her home state of CA, or course), and her wonderful boyfriend of over three years who she had to ask out because he was so clueless. Lately she's been making plushies for her Etsy store! I'll link to it once it's up and running.

This Site

This site is currently being hosted by Webspec Design. It was hand-coded by Cassidy James using HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript. Comments are powered by Disqus. An RSS feed is available for blog content. The navbar was designed by elementary designer Daniel Fore. Search is powered by Google.

Software

Cassidy James uses elementary OS (or, in some cases, Ubuntu) for all his computers (except one of his Cr-48s). Yes, he could pay for (or pirate) and use Windows, but he find it's far less speedy, stable, and secure. Sure, he could pay out his nose for a really nice Apple computer and use OS X, but he prefers his current hardware setups. Cassidy programmed the site using HTML, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript in Geany on elementary OS and Ubuntu. Any images were created/edited using GIMP or Inkscape.

He tends to browse using Midori, Chrome, or Chromium, but he's known to use whichever browser he has in front of him at the moment. This site has been tested in all major browsers. Cassidy's been know to despise Internet Explorer, so if this site looks like poo to you, you're probably using IE (note that the site has not been coded to display poorly in any browser, it's just been written it as correctly as possible without catering to any specific browser).