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Job Opening in Outreach Technology

Started Mar 12

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Job Opening in Outreach Technology

Our group, Outreach Technology, is hiring a new developer.  The focus of the job will be on mobile app development and web/api backend services.  You can read more about the job at https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/20779.  If you have any specific questions, feel free to hit me up.See More
Mar 12
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Jason Austin commented on Nick Young's event NC State Co-Working Day
"In case anyone is interested, here is what we put together today.  You should be able to comment on the doc and I will respond as…"
Feb 8
Jason Austin commented on Nick Young's event NC State Co-Working Day
"I posted this to the list, but I'll post it here too: After implementing yet another app that relies on semester date information, it has become obvious to me that our group is implementing the management and dissemination of this data…"
Feb 6
Jason Austin is attending Nick Young's event

NC State Co-Working Day at AFTC 106 Multi-Purpose Room (Avent Ferry Technology Center)

February 8, 2013 from 8am to 5pm
There's no schedule, no set agenda, just bring yourself, your laptop. About co-working... -- Don't show up with nothing to work on.  Have something in mind, whether it is something from your current work or some project you would like to start. -- If you have some problem that you have been struggling with, bring it.  The point of these things is to take advantage of others expertise. -- Come prepared to help other people.  This is not only about getting help for yourself, but helping other…See More
Feb 6
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Jason Austin is attending Nick Young's event

NC State Co-Working Day at AFTC 106 Multi-Purpose Room (Avent Ferry Technology Center)

January 18, 2013 from 8am to 5pm
There's no schedule, no set agenda, just bring yourself, your laptop. About co-working... -- Don't show up with nothing to work on.  Have something in mind, whether it is something from your current work or some project you would like to start. -- If you have some problem that you have been struggling with, bring it.  The point of these things is to take advantage of others expertise. -- Come prepared to help other people.  This is not only about getting help for yourself, but helping other…See More
Jan 17
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Jason Austin replied to Mitch C. Amiano's discussion Continuous Integration and Deployment - Who's doing what ?
"Just an update on this.  I now have a Jenkins box up and running, and have a one-click build and deploy mechanism setup to deploy our WebRegistry app.  It checks out the code from GitHub, installs the required dependencies, sets the…"
Jan 17
Jason Austin replied to Mitch C. Amiano's discussion Continuous Integration and Deployment - Who's doing what ?
"It certainly does work in OIT land, as I just got done with a first shot at deploying this way.  Also, Jenkins is pretty darn sweet."
Jan 11
Jason Austin replied to Mitch C. Amiano's discussion Continuous Integration and Deployment - Who's doing what ?
"As far as symlinks, we're likely working on very different versions of webservers if you are on Engineering's webservers.  They are a much different animal than the rest of the webservers from OIT."
Jan 9

Profile Information

What department or college do you work for?
OIT in Outreach Technologies
What languages and applications do you focus on?
PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, Smarty, jQuery, mootools, XML, JSON, Subversion, Zend Studio (Eclipse), Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla
Web address or blog?
http://jasonawesome.com
URL to your twitter page (if you don't tweet, you should check out http://www.twitter.com)
http://www.twitter.com/jason_austin
AIM Screen Name:
CheezemoNC
Your LinkedIn profile page:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/9/3a5/a38
Tell us a little about yourself:
I've worked at NCSU in some capacity for 8 years, mostly focusing on application development.

Our group's main focus is on PHP and MySQL. We have drank the Zend Koolaid and do a LOT of work with Zend Framework and Zend Studio. We also heavily use jQuery and mootools as our primary javascript libraries. We use Smarty for templating right now. Lately we have been in the land of Drupal...but apparently everyone on campus is in that land now :)

We are big fans of version control, so we keep all our projects in subversion. You can check out or projects that we have going at http://webapps.ncsu.edu/lifecycle/.

Our applications focus mostly on internal support tools, but all of our work is open sourced. Another primary function of our job is helping people determine their workflows, then building applications that enhance that process. We also teach some classes (which a lot of you guys have been to) on Zend Framework, PHP5 and design patterns. We don't get to do it as much as we would like because we have a lot going on.

Jason Austin's Blog

Set Raleigh on Fire! #IgniteRaleigh 2009

Last night was the inaugural #IgniteRaleigh event at the Lincoln Theater downtown. If you are not familiar with what Ignite events are, the gist is that presenters have 5 minutes and 20 slides to talk about something. "Entertain us, but do it fast". It is basically a week-long conference worth of presentations, ideas, entertainment, and networking in 2 hours!



#IgniteRaleigh had 15 presentations, some good, some bad, some… Continue

Posted on August 6, 2009 at 8:46am — 3 Comments

iPhone Dev Book for our NCSU Web Dev Library

Hey yall!



Just an FYI, Steve and Francis from Apple hooked us up with a free book when they came for the class yesterday. It is this one:





Amazon Link



If anyone is interested in checking it out, drop me a line. We only have the one book, so were gonna have to… Continue

Posted on March 20, 2009 at 9:47am — 2 Comments

No more Interview 2.0: Now, Campus Spotlight

Because of the immense amount of work it has taken to get an interview done, processed, and posted, we have decided to change it up a bit. We aren't getting rid of the interviews, just broadening the horizon a bit to make the feature more flexible.



Instead of just interviews, we are going to be doing a campus spotlight on interesting happenings that are going on around campus. We will be working with you guys to give us ideas for things we can report on, like applications,… Continue

Posted on February 19, 2009 at 12:53pm — 1 Comment

Recap from our first NCSU Web Dev Meetup

Thanks to everyone for coming out! Here is the recap:

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Ning Review

  • Good start to the lack of community issue discussed at the November, 2008 meeting
  • Ning Stats
    • 101 Members so far
    • Most visitors in one day: 159
    • 81 Forum Threads
    • 41 Blog Posts
  • Ning Features
    • Best Thing Ever
      • Posted every Tuesday
      • Good…
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Posted on February 19, 2009 at 9:07am — 2 Comments

Collaborate Together, or Get RIFed Alone

I don't often get inspired by watching TV shows. Most of the time, they are just entertainment for entertainments sake, but I had a revelation while watching LOST relating to the way our University (dis)functions.



If you think I am going to compare some administrator to "the others", or call another one the smoke monster, you'd be wrong. No, what got me was at the end of season 2 where Jack was talking to his people and he told them "if we don't live together, we will die alone".… Continue

Posted on February 6, 2009 at 10:09am — 12 Comments

Comment Wall (3 comments)

At 12:21pm on December 5, 2008, Ellen McDaniel said…
Hi Jason,

Do we have to have the Google ads at the right, e.g., Pimp my Profile, How Rachel Ray Lost 30lbs? :) Anyway to dump those? Thanks.

Ellen
At 10:23am on February 20, 2009, Mark Scheible said…
Jason,

We have been looking at using Shibboleth to front-end the OrgSync application. OrgSync already has NC A&T and Appalachian State as clients and we were attempting to get them sponsored into the UNC identity federation. Unfortunately, that's stalled for the time being because UNC-GA needs to work on establishing an attribute release policy for student information. We may pursue a peer-to-peer shib connection though. I'll let you know when we make progress with this.

Mark
At 1:08pm on October 29, 2009, Tony Miller gave Jason Austin a gift…
Gift
Electric Guitar
Apparently Ning now has this gift idea, so I thought I'd send you something for doing Best Week Ever and starting the site. Why not an electric guitar, so you can be a Rock Star web developer?
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