Pleased to introduce myself...
This is my first post to my new blog. I've been a long time LiveJournal user, but have been straying away from it more lately. It is mostly just personal, day-to-day posts and I wanted a place for technology/development type posts. I still update my LiveJournal, since my parents read it from time to time to make sure I'm still alive and the more I update it the less they call me to see what's up. :)
So, some information about me. I am a 22 year old senior at CSU Sacramento majoring in Computer Science. I have 3 semesters left (I hope... 5.5 year plan). I also work at the CA Department of Motor Vehicles. I work at the headquarters, not the field office. I don't have access to the drivers license or vehicle registration databases, so don't ask me to do anything for you. I don't know what form you need to fill out to do *fille in blank* either. I am a programmer, so I don't deal with any of that (I have no people skills).
Some of my current projects include:
nGallery - I am one of the main developers on nGallery, an open source web-based photo gallery written in C#. I work closely with Jason Alexander, who has done a tremendous job on it. I mostly responsible for the SQL Server support and the image processing stuff. If you have any problems with either of those, I am to blame.
At the DMV, I am the primary developer on a web-based cost estimating system. Basically, any state legislature bills that are proposed have to have a dollar amount attached to them. If they have any impact to the IT department at the DMV, it comes to us and users enter in what programs they'd have to modify or systems they'd have to purchase and we send it back saying it would cost $X. Its written in ASP and using SQL Server 7. They're finally deploying SQL Server 2000 to our test environment in December, and production by Jan/Feb. I've wanted to rewrite it in ASP.NET, but they said no since their core infrastructure is J2EE and don't have any plans to go .NET.
Additionally, for school I am currently working on my Senior Project for the CSUS Office of Community Collaboration. This project is a small faculty survey system for service learning programs (basically, internships in the field for students). I'll run through all of the CSU system and get information on faculty and community partner's satisfaction with the students and cross-reference it with student satisfaction across all the campuses and various classes. I have the joy of being the Project Manager for our team, Dataformation, so it is a nice learning experience. We are still in the early stages. It utilizes the full IEEE development lifecycle, so it is well documented. We aren't even to the Requirements Specification yet. It will be in ASP and SQL Server 2000. I was pushing for ASP.NET (they said it could in the beginning), but the sponsor said no, and you have to give the client what they want. Boo.