Projects Worked on in Fall 1998 Semester

• Infrastructure for final project in CS519 - this  involved getting together some of the hardware needed for the final project, and then helping  students use it  by individual consulting and by writing documentation
• System administration for two Solaris/86 boxes for C/NRG, including setting up the CVS repository for the group.

Mostly these projects called on stuff I already knew: C++, Java, computer basics, internet fundamentals, Unix (including CVS), and HTML, but I had to learn some new stuff too:

• Telephony - getting voice signals to sound right is hard; I also learned to deal with the Dialogic D/41EPCI sound-to-IP board, including programming to its API in C.
• Hardware - I learned the basics of pulling, inserting, and reseating cards; telephone and ethernet cable wiring and how to crimp plugs for them; how to move equipment around both physically (with help from others) and logically (from one side of a firewall to another).
• PBX - how to enter telephone lines and their numbers; how to use JTAPI (Java telephony API) to access its services; and about telephony APIs in general.
• Windows/NT - including Visual C++ (or Developer's Studio) with/without its excellent debugger; I also had to get on top of Visual Source Save and Frontpage.