I have been giving some serious thought to working with Andrew Witte in creating ‘audio.case.edu’. The site would function nearly identically to ‘photos.case.edu’ in that users could login, upload an audio file and tag it with multiple categories, and then be able to see a list of audio files in each category/user. Administrators could maintain moderated categories that require approval before an audio file can be posted to it. Each category would have it’s own RSS feed - allowing for external applications such as iTunes to directly connect to the feed and play the audio files just like a radio station moves from track to track. This is known as podcasting, which has been greatly growing in popularity.
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February 16, 2006
thinking about audio.case.edu
photos.case.edu now hosted by USG
Awhile back, Brian Latko expressed an interested in the photos.case.edu project I started and the possibility of integrating its services into USG’s web development. Most notably, he wanted to use the system to store USG event related photos and pull content off of the site to display on plasma tv screens located throughout the campus. I knew this idea would take off sometime! I’m proud to say that this evening, I worked with Greg Szorc and Andrew Witte to transfer the service over to the USG webserver.
Dinner with Microsoft at Nighttown
I just got back from a great dinner with two Microsoft employees who took us out to dinner at Nighttown. Both of them were Case alumnii who worked in software engineering - one in test, and the other in development. They brought myself, Chris Parker, Rob Klayman, Samer Karim, and a graduate student named Siva that I had not met before. We spent the evening talking about Microsoft and bouncing questions back and forth. I feel made a really good impression - both in terms of technical knowledge and personable skills.
February 15, 2006
Case Orchestra exceeds expectations, performance hall does not
At our dress rehearsal in Thwing last Tuesday, things weren’t where they were supposed to be. Somewhat miraculously, our concert went off very well last night. Oh, sure, there were the occasional missed entrances (heh, many of the 1st violins in the second movement of Schubert’s Unfinished nearly forgot to come back in for a measure) and some funky sounds here and there….but nothing too bad. We really sounded great on the opening piece, La Gazza Ladra (The thieving Magpie) by G. Rossini [trust me, you've heard this piece a thousand times before in cartoons and commercials - it's a fun piece]. The soloists, Kevin Blum on Clarinet performing the Von-Weber concerto and Chunrui Tan performing the Vieuxtemps violin concerto, both did exceptionally well.
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February 14, 2006
IBM Extreme Blue - I’m in!
I just got accepted into the IBM Extreme Blue “Continuous Availability Manager” project! I can’t say too much because some of it is confidential, but the project is sweeT with a capital T. They have three years worth of research into hypervisors and it is some serious bleeding edge stuff. The project would be located in Raleigh, NC.
I got callbacks for two more Extreme Blue projects - Project “Mako” and “BlueDye Services”. I don’t know anything about them other than they are located in San Jose, CA and Austin, TX. Who knows, I might have my pick of location! I’m just glad I got into one. We’ll see how the offer looks and then I’ll see what Microsoft has to offer on Monday. They’re taking me out to dinner (Nighttown - Jazz Club) tomorrow or Thursday