Sam Hathaway

sam at uofr dot net
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I'm a freelance IT consultant specializing in Perl web programming and Linux system administration.

Current projects

• WeBWorK - I continue to work for the WeBWorK project, adding features to and fixing bugs in the WeBWorK 2 system.
• WeBWorK Consulting - I am available as a consultant for users of the WeBWorK system.
• UofR.net - I'm helping to run UofR.net, a shell/web/mail server for alumni of the University of Rochester.
• t-distance - Find the four closest T stations to any address.
• Greasemonkey scripts - I've written a couple of greasemonkey scripts.

Past projects

• Summer trip - Tori and I spent a month travelling around the country.
• WeBWorK internship - For several years, I worked as an intern for Dr. Michael Gage of the Department of Mathematics, rewriting the WeBWorK system to run under mod_perl, instead of as a collection of CGI scripts. It was a fairly extensive overhaul, using all-new UI code and new interfaces to the database and PG parser. It is faster, more usable, and far easier to install and maintain than the WeBWorK 1.x series. I worked with Dennis Lambe on this project.
• turnin - Dennis and I wrote an assignment submission system for CSC 172, for which we are lab TAs. Our hope is that the system will be adopted department-wide, ending the headaches caused by the currently used scripts. We have released the code under the GPL.
• CIF lab director - I was the lab director for the Computer Interest Floor for the year 2002. During my administration, the lab re-opened, our UNIX server was upgraded, and things generally got better.
• System administration for WRUR - I did some system administration for the school radio station from 2000 to 2002. I set up MP3 streaming, program archiving, an online schedule, etc.
• ResNet search - In 1999 I wrote a crawler which indexed public SMB shares on ResNet. It worked pretty well, and got used quite a bit.

Linux notes

Notes about some things I've figured out how to do with Linux.

• Pine+IMAP+Dovecot on Debian/Ubuntu

Friends

• Tori Sweetser
  • Tori's PhotoWeb site
  • Ellen Feiss Halloween costume (another copy: Ellen Feiss Halloween costume.)
• Dennis Lambe Jr
• Joe Gester
• Rod Hilton
• Julia Sando
  • The Rod Hilton Love Page
• Eric McCarthy

Also here

• Apple Switch Ad Parodies - A list of parodies of the Apple's popular Switch ad campaign.
• DeCSS@UR - A page about our anti-DMCA protest.
• Software - Software I have written. Not much here yet.
• Summer Solstice 2003 invitation - Invitation to my solstice party, drawn by Tori.
• Towers suite breakers - Which breakers serve which outlets and lights. (This is no longer useful as towers has had its electrical system redone.)

Old web sites

• michaeltron.com (2001) - Web site of Michael Roberson, a great guy. Michael has recently reappeared in cyberspace on his livejournal.
• The Infinite (1999) - The web site for a quest class I took.
• Mrbojangles (pre-1999) - Site of material from my friend David Sheldon. This is all high school stuff, but I still like it.

© 2003-2007 Sam Hathaway