CoolIris nee Piclens

Posted March 22nd, 2009 in Commentary by jayshao

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…

SakaiCon: NYC Regional Sakai User Group

Posted December 5th, 2007 in Sakai by jayshao

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.

Going to Sakai in Amsterdam

Posted June 8th, 2007 in Sakai by jayshao

(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.

At JA-SIG

Posted December 3rd, 2006 in Commentary, Portals by jayshao

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…

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Resume

Posted November 6th, 2006 in Commentary by jayshao

Jason Shao

Jason Shao

Sr. Java Developer at ContextWeb

Greater New York City Area

Current
Past
  • Director of Product Development at CampusEAI
  • Board Member at Jasig
  • Director of Open Source Solutions at CampusEAI

4 more...

Education
  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
Connections
322 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Summary

I enjoy producing software which gets used, that users can look at and think "this solves a problem." I'm particularly interested in portlets and Web 2.0 (the Read-Write web) and the implications/oportunities of increasingly inter-linked, meta-data enhanced digital information. Automatic population & analysis of meta-data and the scalability of ad-hoc "folksonomies" seem like they'll be particular important as we shift to an increasingly user-produced content & service model.

Specialties:

Web Development, CAS, uPortal, Liveray, Portals, Portlets (JSR-168), Sakai, LMS, VLE, Identity Management, IDM, Java, J2EE, Spring Framework, Spring Security, Spring Portfolio, Spring Modules (Caching, Validation), Servlet, JSP, JSTL, Eclipse, ANT, Maven, SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Internet Technologies, XSLT, XML, (X)HTML, CSS, DDD, BDD, TDD, CVS, SVN, OpenID, iCal, IMAP, POP, SMTP, Standards Compliant & Accessible Content Authoring, Agile, SCRUM, LEAN


Experience

  • Sr. Java Developer

    ContextWeb

    (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

    January 2010Present (3 months)


Education

  • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick

    B.S. , Computer Science , 19992004

    Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity President, IFC President, Targum Publishing Company Marketing Director, RHA Hall President

    Activities and Societies:
    Sigma Phi Epsilon, IFC, Army ROTC, Targum Publishing Company, Rutgers College General Honors Program, RHA Hall Government

Additional Information

Websites:

Interests:

open-source, software development methodologies, user interaction & interfaces, Web 2.0, technology, IP law

Groups:

IEEE, NYC Java User Group (JUG), JA-SIG, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Boy Scouts of America, Sakai

  •    International Association of Software Architects
  •    Sakai Community
  •    The Official IEEE Group
  •    Rutgers Alumni
  •    Open Source
  •    Scrum Practitioners
  •    Java Developers
  •    ITANA
  •    Eagle Scouts of America
  •    Higher Education Professionals
  •    Jasig uPortal developers
  •    Domain Driven Design
  •    EDUCAUSE
  •    Rutgers Sigma Phi Epsilon
  •    jQuery Framework
  •    Agile CMMI
  •    The Daily Targum Alumni (Official)
  •    Linked Local On The Central Jersey Shore
  •    Banner ERP Professionals Network
  •    Getting Things Done® - Network of GTD® Enthusiasts

Honors:

Order of the World Wars, 2002
Henry Ruck Scholar, 2001
Sigma Phi Epsilon Scholar, 2001
Eagle Scout, 1999


Hehe

Posted October 5th, 2005 in Personal by jayshao

Hehe
Hehe,
originally uploaded by jayshao.

Sometimes I swear, Chris just looks like he’s up to something…

About

Posted February 21st, 2005 in Commentary by jayshao

Personal

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.

Professional

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.

Blogging styles: Articles or Links?

Posted July 13th, 2004 in Commentary by jayshao

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 »

Shrook and an Automatic (OPML) Blogroll

Posted January 8th, 2004 in Commentary by jayshao

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 »

Contact

Posted October 22nd, 2003 in Personal by jayshao

p. Please feel free to drop me a line regarding this site, or matters both personal and professional. Anything entered into the message area below will be emailed directly to me, and I will try and get back to you as quickly as I can.

h4. You may also attempt to get in touch with me via the following methods:

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