Aesir Computing, Inc
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Welcome to My Home Page!

Background

In 1990, I co-founded Aesir Computing, Inc. as a means to pursue software technologies I enjoy. I first got involved with computers to satisfy my "foreign language" requirement for my Chemistry degree that I received in 1983 from Virginia Commonwealth University.

After graduating, I worked various computer jobs with the universities and private companies (Chemshare, Phillip Morris, and student consulting) and took every computer science graduate course I could find at the University of Houston and Virginia Commonwealth University.

My career falls into the following progressive stages. I love to write software!

hacking/obsolete(1983-1986)

JCL to copy entire volumes, files, bypassing security
wrote tons of interactive interfaces to JCL with wylbur,clists
maintenance of 1M+ fortran 4 program created by chemists :-(
TCP/IP LAN (broadband ethernet) and narrow band
mail system for wylbur
primos,mvs/os,unix hacking

sysadmin/kernel (1986-1988)

awk,sed,csh,sh scripts (10K+ of lines) before I knew C
installations and adb kernel patches for existing unix's
tty watchers and shells
wrote simple OS in macro-11 and C.
unix kernel calls, schedulers mods
all of /bin utilities
device drivers (smart I/O boards, ethernet adaptors, jukebox)
Realtime OS's (Wind River, PSOS)

networking stage software (1989-1990)

xns and tcp/ip ping, all r'cmds, ftp, telnet, uucp, mail
xns to tcp/ip gateway
tcp/ip to x.25 gateway
tcp/ip router
snmp agent (dgux,SunOS, SCO, interactive, ultrix)

graphical interface and commerical apps (1990-1993)

snmp and CMIP manager (X11,motif)
large commerical applications (document managment system, workflow)
Custom X11 Widgets (motif)
sysadm tools
medium database apps (more than 100 tables)
virtual tool kits (wcl,neuron data,etc,tck/tk)

web useful applications and general consulting (1993-present)

tcp/ip security, packet level and application firewalls
spiders and html page builders
search and meta searches
perl based web server
C based web server (non forking/non threaded)
CGI and perl gateways (mod-perl, and Aesir*Web)

Currently at Aesir, we have stopped work on our Web Server technology (Aesir*Web) which is being used for the Aesir Resorts Internet product. It contains some interesting features such as "just in time web access" to better handle peak load. Geographical load balancing of images. NOTE! see akamai to see a nice description of how we did it. Virtual images which allow us to return the best possible image for a particular browser. Fine granularity content negotiation allowing us to return html 2.0 and html 3.0 attributes depending on browser type. The translation from 2.0 to 3.0 is done automatically by software conversion in the server. Server side includes that can be cached on a per file basis. I have been using mod-perl and Apache to duplicate many of these features. Unfortunately, the server still has some very interesting web marketing features that I havn't ported yet so we are using this server for some pages.

We have transitioned off of the Connections: A Southern Golf and Vacation Guide and have been actively building Relocation Central since 1998. This site is created using spider technology that helps create the pages and keep links up to date.

With the arrival of my daughter May 17, 1998 we are slowing down and taking a much reduced work load. I plan on starting my next phase of computer learning which will be creating educational and parent/child collaboration software. If you have similiar interests, drop me a line and we might be able to work together and create a wonderful kids site.

I am still a Canadian Citizen, having arrived in the states in 1976.

I am originally from Medicine Hat, Alberta. My grandparents who live on McCutcheon Drive in the Hat will be getting on the internet shortly from a local provider I found when I was there this last spring. BTW, you can't miss their house ... it's the one with the giant railroad crossing sign on the roof. My Grandfather is a 2nd generation retired railroader who has run Hat Rail Mobilia the past 15 years. Most people from the "Hat" are very proud of our hockey team - The Medicine Hat Tigers. The local newspaper is also now online. If you know of any other Medicine Hat news, I loved to hear from you.

Interests

I have a few interests outside of computers:

Mike our australian shephard. He and I walk for approx 2 hours every day (rain or shine), he likes to swim in our pool along side me and thinks he is human. I havn't the heart to tell him he isn't. I suspect he wishes for thumbs in he dreams so he can participate in my other hobbies. :-)
Golf - interesting game where I spend hours waiting for my wife to hit the ball. Although these days, it might be the other way around since I havn't had much time to play with all the traveling ;-) Ask me and I'll tell you about my 143 yard 8 iron that gave me an eagle on a par 4 while playing recently on Hilton Head Island. It was a fade that took the water and bunker out of play and one bounce and in the hole.... Ok I have told you :-) Of course, my next tee shot was a duck hook :-( Back down to earth rather quickly wouldn't you say!
Renovations - fixing up this house making it better then new or puttering in general. I took off 7 months and made the fixerupper into the palace that we now call home :-)
and a fine beer ale and stouts are best.
BBQ - Smoking and Grilling.
Search the net My own search of excite, altavista, lycos, infoseek, webcrawler with output filters
My own Poison Ivy Site - includes pointers to the 'Cure'
Dunphy.org - I am building a site to link to all the dunphy's. Drop me a note with your email/urls if you want to be included.
Medicine Hat Tigers Hockey - Listen to the games Live from Chat Radio!

Interesting Links

Fun Internet Links - warning (these were from 1995)

Contact Info:

: Email: JimDunphy@aesir.com
Aesir Computing, Inc

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