The Mastermind Behind Vasili's Blog

Who else would run a blog named Vasili's Blog other than a person named Vasili? Yup, that's me in my weirdo natural self over there.

I was born on July 1 in 1994, which puts me at the awesome age of 15. The unfortunate thing about being 15 is the fact that I'm still in school; a sophomore to be more exact, but I could really be considered a senior with the schedule I have.

Besides spending my time on the computer and doing homework, I enjoy doing a couple things. One of my most favorite things to do is take pictures. I just bought a shiny new Nikon D90 that is fitted with a Nikkor 50mm f/1.8. The lens is very fast and is great for portraits or pictures with little light. The low light feature is great for when I'm cooking something.

Cooking and baking is probably the third thing I do in my free time. If you came into my house, you would either find me on the computer or in the kitchen. Though I like to cook, I would much rather bake something. This is the main reason why most of the recipes on my “Recipes to Make List” are cakes, cookies, or something along that sort. One day, I hope to be able to take amazing food porn pictures of my own cooked meals.

You could probably summarize my personallity and likes with a job descriptive. The perfect job for me would to be a food blogger, living in New York City. I would take my own pictures for the blog and process them before adding them to the site through my custom CMS. Yeah, that would be awesome.

Entrance into the Internet World

I first discovered the world of web design and developer, along with all its wonderfulness, about three years ago when I decided to put up some answers for my friends. I don't know what possessed me to do it but from that one Freewebs page, I became hooked to the web design world.

It took another year and a half for me to be developing websites that did not include high contrast colors, and didn't break the validator. I stumbled upon this thing called PHP, a server-side language, which just captivated my attention just like HTML and CSS had. I was even more determined to learn this new mysterious language. It remembered me of algebra, which I really enjoyed at the time.

I learned enough to get me by in creating a simple guestbook script. I didn't want that, though; I wanted to create a blogging software. At the time, I was working with WordPress, but didn't really like how the templating worked. It took that other year and a half to get the now CMS to how I wanted it... kinda. I also seem to be updating it and changing some things. For me to have a motivation of sorts, I decided to sell it on CodeCanyon under the name Articulate Articles.

I'm now continuing learned hidden secrets of PHP and its security vulnerabilities. My HTML and CSS knowledge grows everyday with the emergence of newer version (HTML5 and CSS3). My knowledge of JavaScript isn't that great and I haven't had a chance to finish reading my book on it. I am also going to start learning Objective-C so I will eventually be able to create my own Mac app, or an app for my iPod Touch.

What's a “duove”?

Enough about the blogging software for this site! I purchases duove.com in May 2009 as a gift for myself for completing my first AP test, the World History exam. I scored the highest, a five, I found out, that July.

The name doesn't mean anything. It's just a made up word that I liked because of how the letters fell together. I knew I wanted to have the letters “d” and “v” because I think they are the most awesome letters ever. I belief I started with the word dove and just added a “u” to it.