Daniel (Dan) Spohn

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein
"The minds of the masses are molded by the words of a few."

About Myself

I graduated from Kent State University in May 2005 with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration in Computer Information Systems. Prior to graduation, December 2004, I started working full-time as a Programmer/Analyst/Server Admin at TripleClick Design in Fairlawn, Ohio. After graduation I continued working full-time, until January 2006, when I began my master's degree in Computer Information Systems at Youngstown State University. I continued working full-time at TripleClick Design until its demise in February 2006. I enjoy programming, growing beards, using Linux, developing databases, image processing, AJAX, compiling kernels, automating everything possible, movies, being engaged to Alexis, MythTV, and really any type of technology.(not necessarily in that order).

News

10/15/07

Alexis and I are getting married in 5 days (10/20/07)!

8/07/06

After numerous unsuccessful attempts I finally figured out how to administer, manipulate and query Fedora Directory Server using JNDI from within Java. Since I do not have any real previous experience with LDAP, the past few days, I have learned quite a lot. I have taken classes and done some basic administration with Active Directory, in Windows 2003, but no real knowledge of LDAP is really needed for that - Microsoft makes it too easy. Using JNDI I have figured out how to create new users, modify existing ones, and query the directory. All I really need to do now is create a class for manipulating LDAP and make a tie for InfoMiner's authorization/authentication system.

8/04/06

A few days ago I installed Fedora Core 5 on a server to host my InfoMiner application. My first thought was to install Debian Linux on the server (because that is what I am most familiar with), but then after deciding to use Fedora Directory Server (FDS), I figured it would probably be easier to use Fedora. Yesterday I installed Fedora Directory Server on the FC5 server, which is an open source LDAP server. I'll use the FDS to store user accounts and user info. Today I installed JBOSS AS to use as the J2EE application server for InfoMiner.

8/02/06

I'm currently working on a JSP web application that utilizes the WEKA project for doing data mining and machine learning. I'm tentatively calling this project "InfoMiner". The goal of my project is to improve the ease of use and availability of data mining technologies. Also the WekaMetaL (Meta-Learning) extension will be included in the web application to automatically select a default algorithm for the user if they are unsure of which algorithm to choose.

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