Today we launched a new website for the Samford Campus Recreation department. This launch is the culmination of a year’s collaborative effort with the Campus Recreation department, my Software Engineering students from last Fall, and my continued refinements throughout the academic year and summer. The previous version of the website was developed and edited exclusively… Continue reading Another student project success!
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Back up and running
Downtime One of the many great things about Samford University is that faculty and lab computers are on a lease system through Dell. That means that every three years, I get to log onto the Dell website and configure my new machine with the hardware that I want as long as I stay within the… Continue reading Back up and running
2009 ACM Southeastern Regional Programming Contest
Another year and another great performance by my programming students. They have already solved two problems and still have an hour left to go. Come on “Team Red C”! Hard work and dedication (we had to leave Samford at 5:30AM this morning and won’t get back until 10:30PM – 17 hours!)
ICOMP 09
Viva Las Vegas! After a three day drive that included quick visits to friends and family along the way in Texas and Arizona as well as brief visits to the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam at night (very cool!), and finally to Las Vegas, I arrived just in time to showcase my Ajax Performance Monitor Toolkit.… Continue reading ICOMP 09
Samford University Virtual Supercomputer
The Samford Unviersity Virtual Supercomputer is coming soon! Today I gave a demonstration/presentation about the non-dedicated cluster I am building on campus. Eventually, it may grow into a supercomputer, but for now I am quite happy with the direction it is taking as a computational resource for campus. The Powerpoint Slides from my presentation are… Continue reading Samford University Virtual Supercomputer
Alabama Academy of Science Annual Meeting
Tonight I am attending the executive committee meeting of the Alabama Academy of Science, where I am the editor for electronic media (i.e., I am in charge of the organization website). Tomorrow I will be chairing the Engineering and Computer Science presentations at the University of West Alabama in Livingston, Alabama. I did not submit… Continue reading Alabama Academy of Science Annual Meeting
Sun Microsystems VirtualBox
Wow – Sun microsystems has been busy – discreetly releasing and/or acquiring all kinds of important open source software projects. The banner of logos shown above just about summarizes it. Today I discovered VirtualBox while working on a cluster computing project. VirtualBox isn’t directly related to cluster computing, but it can be used to run… Continue reading Sun Microsystems VirtualBox
Going live with Mesa Online
This morning we went live with Mesa Online, a website for students taking Spanish courses in the World Languages department. The idea behind the Mesa program is that students sign-up for a time to have lunch or dinner with a small group of students and one faculty member. During the lunch or dinner, all conversation… Continue reading Going live with Mesa Online
Welcome to Spring 2009
ul{margin-left:25px} Welcome to another exciting semester at Samford University! Here is a quick summary list of the exciting classes and work just around the corner! COSC325 – emphasizing web languages to demonstrate concepts of programming languages COSC495 – senior seminar – details of student projects to be posted soon! SUVS – Samford University Virtual Supercomputer
Under hacker attack!
Update – Apparently it was about May of this year when there was a large surge in ssh password attacks. I believe that my computer became a target sometime after that. Here are some good articles reporting on the situation: “Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge” by InformationWeek “Brute-force SSH attacks surge by SC Magazine This… Continue reading Under hacker attack!