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Thus ends my experience with IBM Extreme Blue. I submitted ten patent disclosures, of which, four were published and the fifth is being investigated further. Gary helped me find a part time job these next two semesters with IBM. I am psyched. I will be working with Cisco routers and the like, but I hope [...]

I resolved the server problems, obviously. It was a combination of a software and hardware failure. All is well now, but I plan on switching from Gentoo to Suse+Xen sometime in the future.

I’m flyinig up to Manhattan in, uh, a couple hours. I should probably sleep but I’m pretty damn excited…and my clothes are still in the washer. I celebrated the conclusion of my project by heading to the mall and taking advantage of the tax free weekend. Yay for new dress clothes. I’m going to be [...]

Greg Szorc and I created a new Phi Kappa Theta website for our chapter. We used Drupal as the content management system and I am thoroughly impressed. It is the best content management system I have ever used. It is very easy to modify and theme and the number of additional modules available is insane. [...]

Greg Szorc recently pointed me to this excellent PHP optimization tutorial presented at OSCON 2006 by Rasmus Lerdorf. In the tutorial, he shows how to build a website with some basic SQL calls that handles over 1100 requests/sec using optimization techniques. One of the optimizations he uses is an opcode cacher for PHP called APC. [...]