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About

Mustafa Paksoy (paksoy !AT! gmail). I graduated from Swarthmore College in 2007 with major in Computer Science and a minor in Philosophy.

I started working for salesforce.com in July 2007.

My main insterests in CS are operating systems, distributed systems, and heterogeneous architectures. In my spare time, I used to be a sysadmin and a sound tech. I also enjoy doing photography.

News

August 7 2007:
mod_rewrite is back up. It was a simple Apache security misunderstanding. My directory permissions were rwx--x---(710), but turns out Apache needs directory read in order to do URI rewrites.

August 6 2007:
mod_rewrite is still broken. I put the ugly URI's back. So navigation should be back up, sorry about the slow fix.

July 19 2007:
mod_rewrite is broken after the server migration. I'm working on fixing it.

March 18 2007:
Now introducing cruft free URLs (or URIs as the new kids like to call them). mod_rewrite is not the happiest Apache module to learn, but then, no one likes typing do.php?action=read&id=foobar.

February 22 2007:
I'm now using a very simple rsync script to develop this site on my local machine and then push it to the SCCS web server. It's probably a good idea to follow best practices and keep dev and production servers seperate.

February 17 2007:
Added guide for debugging parallel C applications on LAM/MPI. Also finally wrote the missing descriptions for my latest two projects.

January 22 2007:
My final semester at Swarthmore begins. I'm not taking any Computer Science seminars this semester. I am planning to continue work on the parallel terrain interpolation project, hopefully integrate my work with GRASS GIS. SCCS server migrations will also be in full swing, which will also be eating up a lot of my time.

December 26 2006:
Uploaded final reports for my latest two independent projects:
[Corpus Generation for Automated Topic Detection]
[Terrain Elevation Grids with Parallel Interpolation]

December 23 2006:
I'm finally done with the fall semester. I'll be adding more material to the site over winter break.