Fresh Stuff - Django/Python

Toola is an ongoing Django-powered site that allows you to share the tools and environment where you get your best work done. This is my second Django project and from the beginning I have tried to note all the steps and info you need for those in the same steps!
GitHub Code

Framework
  • Django/Python
Developing/Debugging
  • Django Debug Toolbar
Django Applications (Modules)
  • Django Piston (API)
  • Django Haystack (Keyword Search)
  • SocialRegistration (Facebook/Twitter login)
  • Facebook Python SDK (Needed for SocialRegistration)
  • sorl-thumbnail(Image Thumbnails)
  • django-taggit(Model Tagging)
Deployment/Install
  • Pip installer
  • Virtual Environment
  • Fabric

Testing new HTML5 stuff

This is me playing around with new stuff. GitHub Code
Notes
Browser history
Transformations

Python Twitter Widget

Creating a simple twitter module for your page using python-twitter.

GP NEAT

I graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2007 with an M.S. in Computer Engineering and from Florida International University in 2005 with a B.S. in Computer Science.
My thesis work was on the evolution and visualization of Genetic Program programs represented as trees by using methods analogous to NEAT. I had two great advisors, Annie Wu and Kenneth Stanley .
My thesis - A NEAT Approach to Genetic Programming

SocialAgents

Graphical simulation of agents following a gradient signal to find a target.
GitHub Code

Extreme Blue Internship

Extreme Blue - IBM Almaden Research Center - San Jose, CA - 2007
Developed healthcare components and business process workflows to serve as a framework for clinical applications. We used WebSphere tools (Integration Developer, Process Server and Enterprise Service Bus, Business Monitor ) to create and deploy services. Created business analytics using the open source Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT) and WebSphere Monitor and Portal Server. Delivered prototype to IBM's customer at the end of summer. Prepared sales pitch and marketing information and presented project at an expo in IBM's Headhquarters.

Picbreeder.org

I worked along with the eplex group in picbreeder.org, a collaborative web project. "Picbreeder is a collaborative art application based on an idea called evolutionary art, which is a technique developed by scientists that allows pictures to be bred almost like animals. For example, you can start with a butterfly and actually breed it into an airplane by selecting parents that look like airplanes."

Smart Home

Worked with a group of students on a "Smart Home" Project at University of Texas at Arlington. Designed physical/mathematical model for light sensors to interact with lamps in rooms in order to detect anomalies in lighting systems. Used transformations/matrices to construct a grid of rooms and programmed such model. Used Apple Rendezvous Technology (now Bonjour ) to simulate autonomous interactions between sensors and lamps. Investigated the physical properties of photocells, conducted experiments and analyzed data using GNU plot. Created GUIs using FLTK/FLUID/C++ to demonstrate how an anomaly detection system should work. Learned how to use the X10 protocol within the WISH project.