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| Topx.net | I'll update this when I know exactly what I'm working on at The Internet's Largest News Site. |
| Winamp | My first contact with Nullsoft was when I was approached to port Winamp3 to Linux. I made a great deal of progress with it until I needed to return to other responsibilities, (there's actually something available for download off of the winamp.com website, though you'ld be better suited going here if I've given you the password). My current responsibilities involve their next generation streaming technologies. |
| I was the primary (well only) engineer responsible for dmoz.org for the last two years. I took the reigns from Autumn when I join Netscape/AOL in 2000, and have now handed them back. | |
| Technogeeks |
I worked with a bunch of friends from school the summer before my senior year on a web contracting company. The company has since fallen by the wayside, but it was a wild ride. |
| CalTech |
Ah, my alma mater. How many nights did I not get enough sleep because of the workload? But through the pain I was forced to grow and develop, and learn how to think (something I, like everyone else there, was sure I already knew how to do). Not many schools out there these days take the time to fully crush the egos of their students, but we deserved it, and we are better for it. |
| CS 174c |
I took the computer graphics course at Caltech names CS 174. The final term was devoted to a project, and I choose to implement a 1998 Siggraph paper entitles Appearance-Preserving Simplification. The idea was to simplify a polygonal mesh with standard metric based vertex elimination techniques, but to add a normal map the the reduced triangles, in order to make the final renderings more detailed than could be done with just the reduced polygons. I got as far as putting normal and texture map support into my raytracer from the previous terms, and got the polygon simplification accomplished. Maybe if I had a few more weeks I could have gotten the normal maps added to the simplification. |
| Java Toys |
And here are a couple of toys I built for my last incarnation of a website shortly after first learning Java. They can be a fun way to waste some time. |