Just updated their Safari plugin – seems to work great in Safari 4.0 Beta. Also added a nifty embedded flash viewer that has lots of the same visualizations and whatnot.
This is pretty cool – I may have to replace my default Flickr photo bit with this…
I just sat on a panel talking about some of the ongoings at the regional groups around Sakai — California, Australia, the Netherlands, and of course NYC. Sounds like there’s starting to be a lot of activity around certain areas. It was interesting to see that many of the regional organizations were very event-focused, almost mini-conferences. The Netherlands group seems similar to the NYC one in that they have regular meetings (more regular than us) and are building a continuous series of events in an area community.
Slides below.
(at the last minute) I’m going to be in Amsterdam next week at the Sakai conference. I’d love to link up with anyone there — IM jayshao or drop me email through the contact form and let’s pick a time to get together.
Arrived in Atlanta for the JA-SIG Conference. Atlanta airport has a looooooong concourse… definitely was not walking through the first 3 terminals… Cell phone is busted though, so if anyone needs to reach me AIM (jayshao) is probably the best way. Now just have to finish those presentations that got interrupted by Rutgers WVU going into triple OT…
Manager of Platform Development at ContextWeb
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I enjoy producing software which gets used (a lot), that users can look at and think "this solves a problem." I'm particularly interested in software engineering, portlets and business process integration, and Web 2.0 (the Read-Write web) -- especially the implications/oportunities of increasingly inter-linked, meta-data enhanced digital content and information. Automatic population & analysis of meta-data, the scalability of ad-hoc "folksonomies", and user-attribute based profiles seem like they'll be particular important as we shift to an increasingly personalized, user-produced content & service model.
Web Development, Project Management, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Advertising, CAS, uPortal, Liveray, Portals, Portlets (JSR-168), Sakai, LMS, IDM, Java, J2EE, Spring Framework, Servlet, JSP, JSTL, Eclipse, IntelliJ, ANT, Maven, Tomcat, Glassfish, Jetty, OC4j, SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Internet Technologies, XSLT, XML, (X)HTML, REST, SOAP, Web Services, CSS, DDD, BDD, TDD, CVS, SVN, OpenID, iCal, IMAP, POP, SMTP, Standards Compliant & Accessible Authoring, Agile, SCRUM, LEAN
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
December 2009 — Present (10 months)
Led development of Real-Time Buying systems for auctioning ad-serving requests to buyers on a per-transaction basis. Responsible for leading improvements in development processes, driving interactions with Product and Business users, and the development of new products and features in ContextWeb's ad-serving system.
B.S. , Computer Science , 1999 — 2004
Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity President, IFC President, Targum Publishing Company Marketing Director, RHA Hall President
open-source, software development methodologies, user interaction & interfaces, Web 2.0, technology, IP law
IEEE, NYC Java User Group (JUG), JA-SIG, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Boy Scouts of America, Sakai
Sakai Community 
The Official IEEE Group 
Rutgers Alumni 
Open Source 
Scrum Practitioners 
Java Developers 
Eagle Scouts of America 
Higher Education Professionals 
Jasig uPortal developers 
Domain Driven Design 
EDUCAUSE 
Rutgers Sigma Phi Epsilon 
jQuery Framework 
The Daily Targum Alumni (Official) 
Banner ERP Professionals Network 
Getting Things Done® - Network of GTD® Enthusiasts Order of the World Wars, 2002
Henry Ruck Scholar, 2001
Sigma Phi Epsilon Scholar, 2001
Eagle Scout, 1999
I’m originally from St. Louis, MO, but really grew up in New Providence, NJ (home). I spent a stint in Beijing, PRC but now hang my hat in Piscataway, NJ. I have three beautiful children: Chris (5), Leila & Penny (both 4) and an amazing wife Lisa who holds everything together. Given the 3 small children, and immediate proximity from our current location to their grandparents I’m fairly rooted in NJ, though I love travel and do hope to someday be able to have a pushpin in my world map on every continent.
I’m a Rutgers University graduate who is currently employed as a Sr. Java Developer at ContextWeb focused on our Server-Side Ad delivery platforms, though I am also keenly interested in Web 2.0, online collaboration, and identity management issues.
I also perform independent consulting related to portals, learning management systems, enterprise architecture & object oriented design, open-source software and community involvement, and agile development practices.
I have also worked for: the CampusEAI Consortium where I led development of the myCampus social portal platform, Rutgers Office of Instructional and Research Technology working the Sakai implementation, and Enterprise Systems and Services as an Application Developer focused on the myRutgers portal, which is based on uPortal project, as well as Identity Management.
I haven’t blogged on this site for a while. I have made some posts to my RUJason site using Blogger. Since blogger’s redesign and the launch of MT 3.0 I’ve been comparing the 2 services and have come to the conclusion that both are now mature, capable platforms specialized for different styles, comments & links, or articles and discussion. Continue Reading »
I’ve discovered myself relying more and more upon “(extlink)Shrook”:http://www.fondantfancies.com/shrook/ (my MacOSX RSS Aggregator) to get my daily newsfix. In addition to the standard functionality of allowing me to subscribe to sites, and identifying new posts, Shrook also automatically syncs with “(extlink)Shrook.com”:http://www.shrook.com both keeping track of which stories I’ve read regardless of what computer I’m on and allowing me access to my subscriptions while away from home. While I had previously relied on “(extlink)NetNewsWire Lite”:http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ to surf the growing number of “(extlink)RSS”:http://rss.lockergnome.com/resources/articles/quickstart.phtml feeds out there, “(extlink)Shrook”:http://www.fondantfancies.com/shrook/ has proven to be both more powerful, and integrates features like iTunes style “live searching” that I’ve found to be indespensible.
The neatest part about using Shrook and it’s Shrook.com integration is that I can now have my Links and Blogroll section automatically updated based upon what channels I’ve subscribed to in my reader. Continue Reading »
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