It may not surprise some of you to know that JaredSIM is not my first company, but my fourth. The first I started with my sister in elementary school. We received a children’s loom for christmas and started making custom fabric coasters for people at my mom’s work. We called them “Mug Rugs” (@copyright 1992) [...]
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6 Jul
Organized Database Designing
This isn’t an article on good practices in database design. We definitely wouldn’t be the guys to ask about that. However, after many days of deliberation, and by deliberation I mean yelling, calling each other various names, and wasting several tablets of paper we have finally completed and have some suggestions on how to keep [...]
29 Jun
ThingsILearned User Case
I have a TON of things to post about this past week and the amazing amount of thingsilearned at the doccom Plone sprint hosted by google. I also want to share some stories about the awesomeness that is the google campus, but for now I just want to note my current feeling of awesomeness toward [...]
26 Jun
The Facebook addiction
Facebook has evolved as one of the most powerful way of social networking, sharing photographs, video, blogs as well as communicating with friends and networks. Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s who studied facebook and it’s usage at his university. As he goes to describe his [...]
25 Jun
Jared.hockey – Air Hockey Robotic Opponent
I just ran into my files from one of the first JaredSIM sub-projects. It was my senior design project with the goal of making a robot that would beat the real Jared at air hockey. Naturally I called it Jared.hockey. A lot of people unfamiliar with the current state of robotics might be unimpressed by [...]
20 Jun
JaredSIM – The Adventure
I get asked all the time about why I call all of my projects Jared.[project_name], what thingsilearned is about, and why we chose to call our company JaredSIM. The only way to explain it is to explain Jared, and the whole story, or adventure as I like to call it of JaredSIM. I thought I’d [...]
19 Jun
California – Lets go!
At 7:30 pm exactly 1 week ago today Priyesh, Vu and I packed up and left for the airport. At 9:50 our plane departed and at 11:50pm we landed in San Francisco California ready to conquer the world that lay ahead of us! … By 12:15 Priyesh and I were lost somewhere in the city [...]
10 Jun
On making business cards with Photoshop
Vu here. Since signing onto this project, I’ve had to figure out a thing or two about the program I’d be using for the artwork, namely, Photoshop. (It’s true that I’ve only produced one or two works so far using the program. I also feel that “winging it” is the sine qua non of a [...]
