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About Me...
I earned a degree in Computer Science at Rutgers University, graduating just as Y2K panic was setting in. As you can see from the picture above, I enjoy spending my leisure time meditating on the finer points of paintball tactics. There was a time when Ghost Recon consumed entirely too many CPU cycles on my bitchin' Pentium 4.
27 years ago I became a full-time employee of Rutgers University's
Office of Information Technology on the Camden campus. My official title is Systems
Programmer/Administrator, but I can assure you that I program my VCR DVR more often than
I "program" any of the systems here at Rutgers-Camden. Most of my work is the
computer equivalent of herding cats while mice randomly dart through the room. I'm also a skilled Googler.
While I would probably cut myself on C#, I have produced some not-horrible Perl and PHP poetry over the years.
The major part of my job is that of Systems Administrator. That means that I install operating systems, new and upgraded hardware & software, and keep the Unix-y type (Tru64, Linux, Solaris, Irix) machines up and running. I also help run various services for the campus, like DHCP, Apache, MySQL, Wordpress, Drupal, and network file services. I also briefly ran an Exchange server for the Camden campus, which was the undisputed low-point of my professional life - and I've worked in fast food before. But enough about me.
For two semesters I taught a course called "Web Technology"...
About Web Technology...
Web Technology was an attempt to blend (some say compress or crush) together a
wide variety of topics that range from basic HTML authoring to Web-based database
applications with PHP. Most courses are developed and remain fairly consistent
from semester to semester. As I discovered teaching this course, the topics one
can cover with a term like "Web Technology" are constantly evolving and what was
relevant one year may be ancient history the next. I don't teach anymore. Twice was
enough to be certain that I didn't much care for it.