thoughts and works

Sardines

Sardines is an experiment in organizing a tiered, distributed wiki that is motivated by Open Science. <p>Imagine research that takes place in a lab and is recorded and documented on an electronic platform such as a blog or wiki. It&#8217;s reasonable to conceive that the researcher may want to keep a closer hold on their findings for a short time in order to polish and confirm, before releasing it...

Multitouch: FTIR

In my last term at RIT, I took a course titled Innovation and Invention with Dr. Jon Schull. It was rather experimental, with a breakneck pace and minimal organization that was both highly productive and rewarding. It has continued to flourish, and has significant overlap with the new Collaboratorium at RIT. <p>As part of this course, I worked on a multitouch display (see my <a href="http://touch.tumblr.com">project...

Rockit: A Parser Generator for Ruby

I gave a talk in January 2007 for my Language Processors and Compiler Construction course at RIT on Rockit, a parser generator library for Ruby. I touched on versions 0.3.8 and 0.7.2, which are GLR and PEG driven, respectively. | View | Upload your own

Ruby Type Inference and Code Completion for RDT

I gave a talk at RubyConf 2006, detailing my project for the Google Summer of Code 2006. I worked on type inference for the purpose of code completion in the Ruby Development Tools Eclipse plugin with Chris Williams as my mentor. Chris has gone on to work with Aptana on RadRails. <p>You can read the <a href="http://soc.jayunit.net/">archives of my project blog</a>.</p> | View |...

Introduction to Rails 1.13

I gave a talk at our second Rochester on Rails meetup in January 2006 that is an entry-level introduction to Rails (circa 1.13) . It covers the history, reasons you may use it in a project, and basic architecture of Rails. | View | Upload your own

Introduction to Ruby

I gave a talk at our second Rochester on Rails meetup in January 2006 that gives a brief and basic introduction to the syntax of Ruby 1.8, along with a few nice language features. | View | Upload your own

About Me

Hey, what’s up. I’m Jason. I love code, science, and building cool stuff. <p><img src="http://jayunit.net/assets/2008/3/21/jason-sonoma.jpg" /></p> <h3>Some awesome stuff:</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.syntheticbiology.org">Synthetic Biology</a></li> <li>The <a href="http://www.biobricks.org">BioBricks Foundation</a></li> ...

First Post

I’ve installed Mephisto to try and organize my thoughts and projects. We’ll see how this goes! <p>My old content is available at <a href="/about">About</a>.</p>

Resume

My resume was last updated April 3, 2007, and is available in PDF.

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