I ran the 99.1 PLR Shamrock and Roll 5K today. I placed 38th in my division (30-39 yrs) with a time of 23.50. Overall I placed 192 out of 1270 runners. My pace was 7.41. The results can be bound on the JB Sports website.

Pictures from my pep band reunion are up! I had a great time out in Chicago. It was great being back in the city.

I ran the Manchester Road Race in 36:57 minutes. The total course length is 4.78 miles. I placed 1533 out of the 12,000 runners and 285 in my division.

I successfully organized the first ever Connecticut Java Conference! We had over 100 attendees with eight sessions and two tracks. It was a resounding success.

I finally got around to Kayaking around the Thimble Islands. It was a very interesting

I am attending JavaONE this week in San Francisco. I hope to finally start-up my blog. There are too many interesting sessions from which to pick.

Attended a college pep band (Loyola University Band of Wolves) reunion over the weekend in Chicago. It was weird being back in Chicago. I hadn't returned to the city since graduating in 2001. It was nice to slip back into the old life for a day and see friends. The city had changed tremendously since 2001 - new buildings everywhere. Areas that were once rundown now sport upscale apartments and condos. Think I might take trombone lessons again!

My brother's life just got very busy. Stephanie was born today! Pictures can be found at www.traviscuprak.com. I can't wait to give her finger paints and a cell phone when she gets older!

Today I did an introductory presentations at the Philadelphia JBoss Users Group on JBoss Seam. Seam is an exciting technology that finally fills in many of the glaring gaps in JSF. Documentation is not in the best state - many of the books out on the market leave sometime to be desired.

After many years of talking about it, I finally rang in the New Year in Times Square. It was very anti-climatic. You stand around in the cold for more than six hours (no restrooms) to watch a ball come down. Then everyone leaves.

Pictures of the Grand Canyon tour are now up. Yinli, her cousin, and I visited the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Capitol Reef National Park, Bryce National Park, and Zion National Park. Flew in and out of Las Vegas, NV. Drove a total of 1205 miles and saw some spectacular scenery. Checkout the pictures and trip information.

I did a presentation for the Connecticut Java Users Group which surveyed a variety of open source projects. In my opinion, developers often re-invent the wheel rather than looking to open source. Although some take it a little too far. This presentation looked at some common projects as well as several which were interesting but possibly overkill. In 2007 why should anyone be writing a routine from scratch to copy a file or generate a checksum?

Spent the summer sailing at Yale's Corinthian Yacht Club (YCYC) in Branford, CT!

Joined EnginuityPLM as an eFormulation Analyst!

Now contracting Eastman Kodak's Molecular Imaging System. TurboWorx has sadly run out of cash.

After many months of toil and multiple trips to Boston, the imaging pilot project for CSBi is finally complete. The workflow runs a on a mixture of SGI IRIX and linux SMP machines. I wrapped up most of the image processing operations from Hyugens. The summary report can be viewed here (WorkflowOverviewV3.doc)

Began flying lessons today at Robinson Aviation in New Haven!

After a long delay cuprak.net is finally back on the web. My site is now hosted by Eapps which will hopefully be a bit more reliable than old 233 mhz iMac on dhcp. I'll be adding more content over the next couple of weeks.

Presented at the Long Island Java User Group on the Java Advanced Imaging. Good crowd with some very good questions. This presentation was a complete re-write of my earlier efforts and delved more into the heart o java imaging and JAI. Presentation can be download here.

After many months of work I put together an image processing power point presentation that demos the TurboWorx Enterprise system. So if you are wondering exactly TurboWorx does or I do - checkout the demo! I wrapped practically all of the JAI components - completely automated the process with custom XDoclet bindings that output component definitions for TWE. Note: the image processing is kinda cheesy - would have preferred something more scientific!

I did a co-presentation with Carl Miller, President of COOUG, at the April Java SIG meeting. Carl covered LDAP whereas I covered the basics of the Java Preferences API. Not exactly the best API but it does have a leg up on property files.

Look for my review of Zion's JBuddy Message Server in the current issue of the Java Developer Journal (JDJ). I constructed a "Build Buddy" application that sends out notifications when an ant script successfully completes. The JBuddy Message Server provides a common API to interact with all of the major IM services transparently.

Through connections at TurboWorx and have been able to wiggle my way into attending a course at Yale - Computational Vision and Biological Perception. Truely the best benefit of TurboWorx! May Update: didn't miss a single lecture and the course and the professor were awesome - need to improve my knowledge of differential calculus though.

Douglas Wood (SIS Kodak) and I did a presentation on Java Advanced Imaging for the New York Java Users Group. Attendance was over 125 with many excellent questions! The meeting was held in Sun's offices which are about a block from Grand Central Station. Copies of the presentation can be found here.