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Revision as of 14:11, 26 January 2010
About Me
Personal life
I live 4 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts I am 22 year old male.
I am a college student working for a non-profit organization in their IT department. I am the process of going back to school to get my education in an IT related field preferable Information Technology. My focus right now is mostly on [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Technical_writing Technical Writing]/Communications, Web Development, and most of the time System Administration related tasks. My other area of interest as a hobby is in Sound Recording and Audio Engineering. I hang out HA learning something new and spreading knowledge. I also enjoy help maintaining the wiki, whenever I have spare time. I like discussing technology, current events, politics, philosophy, music or anything in general and enjoy playing my Yamaha synthesizer in my sparetime as a hobby with my Ableton Live 7 setup. Private Message me if you ever have any questions about how do anything related. Additionally I know how to code at a beginner level in C/C++ and intermediate level in PHP.
Technical Skills
Programming Markup/Languages: HTML 5.0/XML, CSS3, Javascript, PHP 5, MySQL, C/C++.
Operating Systems: Windows, UNIX (Linux)
Software (Windows): Microsoft Word 2007, OpenOffice.org 3, Adobe Framemaker 8.0, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, Putty, Doxygen 2.0.
Software (Linux): Gedit, Quanta Plus, Eclipse, OpenOffice.org 3, Emacs, Doxygen 2.0.
Note: I am not familiar with the Mac OS/X operating system, nor do I have any experience reading or working with the object-oriented programming languages of Java or C# (typical trend amongst sofware companies looking for programmers these days).
Systems Administration
Websites:
- Bash Shell GNU / Linux command-line reference page
Web Development
Websites:
- LAMP Server This tutorial shows you how to set up a LAMP server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) under Ubuntu/Debian Linux
- Nettuts is one of the best PHP web developers portal that includes client and server side tutorials for creating websites. (HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP/MySQL, Ruby on Rails)
- Sitepoint is another web developers portal that includes client and server side tutorials for creating websites. (HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP/MySQL, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, JSP)
- Ruby on Rails Documentation shows you how to code with Ruby on Rails.
- JSP Documentation and tutorials that show you how code JavaServer pages with the open source J2EE 5 Glassfish server.
- PHP Manual the official website manual that shows you how to code with PHP/MySQL.
- phpBB is the world's most popular open-source bulletin board (forum software) for your website. (PHP)
- WordPress An open-source content management system and world's most popular open source blog software (PHP)
- Serendipity is free open-source content managment blogging software for your website. (PHP)
- JQuery is a javascript animation library that let's you write less code and do more including simplified AJAX routines.
Books:
Technical Writing
- Society for Technical Communication Organization dedicated to science and writing art of Technical Communication.
- Wikiversity Technical Writing course good for people new to the profession in regard to writing effective technical documentation in general.
- Effective Documentation how effective documentation is the key if open source projects are to thrive.
- Getting a Tech Writing job this article describes how to get a Technical Writing job even if you have no experience.
- Technical Writing jobs technical writing jobs search provided by indeed.com.
Hardware/Software
My hardware specs:
- AMD 64 Dual Core Processor 4600+
- Nvidia GeForce 256MB video card
- M-Audio Revolution 5.1 PCI soundcard
- Sennheiser PCX250 noise-canceling (closed-cans)
- Klipsch Pro Media 2.1 speakers with discrete subwoofer
- Dual-boot Windows XP Media Center / Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
- Windows:
- Linux:
- Rubyripper with cdparanoia libraries for ripping
- Amarok/Rythmbox for listening
- k3B for cd writing
- Lala for streaming
- Transmission/blogs for downloading
- Portable Devices:
- Cowon o2 PMP 16 GB with SDHC Reader
- Second-Generation Playstation 3.
- My encoding habits:
- Vorbis 1.1.3 libraries -q 8 for HD storage and Playstation 3 media transcoding
- FLAC 1.13 -C 3/6 level for archiving my CD's
- Lame MP3 3.98 -V 0 for compatibility
Websites
Audio Websites:
- Icecast Streaming links to open-source streaming stations on the net (MP3, HE-AAC, AAC, Vorbis streaming)
- 1980s.fm a cool retro commercial site that brings you back to the 80's. (MP3, Vorbis streaming).
- Pandora Account my account on pandora radio (AAC streaming)
- Spotify a new streaming media service available only in Europe. U.S and Canadian expansion soon to come! all tracks are -q 5 Vorbis files and -q 9 files for Premium users (Vorbis streaming)
- Lala Music a cool social networking sites with free streaming full length tracks and 50 free song credits. All tracks are mostly $0.99 cents each. (MP3 streaming)
- Amazon MP3 commercial website with DRM free single track's and full albums encoded @ 256 CBR or Lame -V 0 presets. All Track's are either $0.89 or $0.99 cents each.
- ITunes Music popular ITunes music with DRM free track's and albums encoded at 128 kbps ITunes AAC encoder or "ITunes Plus" 256 kbps AAC. All track's are $0.99 cents each. (AAC streaming)
- Musicbrainz Database essential for metadata and tagging your records
Lossless Audio Websites:
- HD Dowloads a list of websites offering lossless audio downloads (pay or for free)
- 7Digital a European digital music distribution website that offers lossless downloads occasionally (FLAC)
Musical Interests
My musical interests are:
- Music
- Classical
- Use of classical music in diverse genres (indian and chinese classical)
- Film Compositions/Scores (post contemporary and popular themes)
- Pieces by famous classical composers of Classical Era and before (Bach, Tchaikovsky, etc).
- Electronic
- Ambient
- IDM/Braindance
- Squarpusher
- Mu-Ziq
- Venetian Snares
- Mouse On Mars
- Big Beat
- FC Kahuna
- The Chemical Brothers
- The Crystal Method
- Fatboy Slim
- The Prodigy
- The Propellerheads, etc.
- Chiptunes
- C64 SID
- Amiga
- Super NES
- Sega Genesis
- Netlabels
- Kahvi Collective
- 8-bit Peoples
- Electroclash
- Felix Da Housecat
- Fischerspooner
- The New Deal, etc
- Electronic Dance Music
- Full-on Psychedelic Trance/Goa Trance
- Infected Mushroom
- Astrix
- Vibe Tribe
- G.M.S
- Ananda Shake
- Sesto Sento
- Visual Paradox
- The Misted Muppet
- Goa Gil, etc
- Astral Projection
- Progressive House
- BT
- Sasha
- Way Out West
- Hernan Cattaneo
- James Zabiela
- Bart Van Wissen
- Luke Chable
- Andy Moor
- New Skool Breaks
- Meat Katie
- Plump DJ's
- Dylan Rhymes
- Koma and Bones
- Elite Foce
- Evil 9
- Andy Page
- Uberzone, etc
- Alternative/indie
- Oasis
- The Fray
- Jack's Mannequin
- MGMT (Management)
- Parachute
- TV On The Radio
- The Spill Canvas
- Modest Mouse
- 80's rock/pop
- Chicago
- Hall and Oates
- Huey Lewis and The News
- Toto
- Journey
- Foreigner
- Lionel Ritchie
- Michael Jackson
- Steve Winwood
- 80's synth pop/new wave
- Oingo Boingo
- Tears For Fears
- Spandau Ballet
- 80's Soundtracks
- Full-on Psychedelic Trance/Goa Trance
- funk
- jazz
- blues
- hip hop, etc.
- IDM/Braindance
HA Questions
Questions that I will answer:
- Ogg Vorbis technical questions (I am not a xiph zealot). I just like the project
- Questions regarding other codecs like AAC, lossless, etc.
- Thought provoking R&D questions, provide insight, or ask questions
- Information pertaining to CD ripping and audio hardware (including sound cards)
- Questions related computer music applications and software (sequencers, hardware, etc)
- General/technial questions regarding Rubyripper (for Linux)
- Music discussion forum related stuff or usage.
- Other thought provoking topics (replaygain, dynamics range, mastering, etc)
- Questions were I can help people.
- Pokes at humorous topics.