Welcome!
My most recent "about the author / speaker" blurb:
Jon Parise currently works as a software engineer at Electronic Arts. He has worked on next generation game engines and on massively multiplayer titles such as The Sims Online and Ultima Online. He specializes in systems engineering and online game play.
Prior to that, as a graduate student a Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center, Jon was involved in a variety of research projects ranging from interactive real-time motion capture to a virtual character puppeteering system to interactive animatronics (entertainment robotics). He also holds a bachelors of science degree in Information Technology from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Jon has co-authored a number of books and articles, including Massively Multiplayer Game Development 2, Professional PHP4, and Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL. He is also a long-time contributor to the open source community, specifically serving as a core developer with the Horde and PEAR projects and as a long-time contributor to the PHP project.
Changelog
| September 8, 2005 | Photos from my trip to Japan are now online. |
| September 17, 2004 | Updated my "about the author" bio above. |
| July 11, 2004 | Updated my resume is reflect my latest professional achievements. |
| May 7, 2004 | Added some recent events to my personal timeline. |
| August 24, 2003 | Added all of my major ETC projects to my personal projects page. |
| December 28, 2002 |
Added a handful of projects that were previously hosted on my Carnegie Mellon website Updated the layout of the projects page in the process. |
| November 29, 2002 | Reorganized my photo album using Gallery. |
| November 18, 2002 | Added a Windows page with some general Windows-related stuff. |
| November 9, 2002 | My presentation materials are now available. |
| November 5, 2002 | Updated a lot of the content on my Python in PHP page. |
| October 20, 2002 | Corrected the link to my Amazon.com wishlist. |
| October 15, 2002 | Added a mozilla page with my bookmark tips. |
| October 10, 2002 | Added pages for my mutt and vim configurations. |
| October 8, 2002 |
Corrected some XHTML errors on the about page. Reorganized the index page and initiated the changelog. |
· Real-time Motion Capture
· Interactive Narrative
· Show Control Systems