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Friday, July 6 2007 @ 11:27PM

Back With a Vengeance

So after almost 8 months of nothing, I am pleased to announce that the site is back up. When I left my job at the Chemistry department, I lost the server I used to host the site. I finally got around to buying a contract, so the site is now up and hosted on a nice little Linux box from GoDaddy.com. I hope to have the Photo Gallery and Resume up within the next few days. After that, you should see some new banner images courtesy of my recent travels abroad. It's good to be back!

Monday, January 8 2007 @ 3:14PM

Farewell

I no longer work for the Chemistry Department. I decided that I want to enjoy my last semester of college without 2 jobs, and to focus a bit more on school. As a result, I will shortly be losing the webserver on which I host this site. I hope to eventually get it going again somewhere else, but I need to find a service worth paying for first. So until then, farewell!

Sunday, March 26 2006 @ 1:51AM

Some Updates

So what do you do when you have a fever and can't sleep at 2AM? Dick around with your website, of course. The stylesheet has been changed for a more pleasant color scheme. Also, the banner image generator was moved to it's own php file, rather than cluttering the index. Planned updates (after the MCAT and finals) include moving the link generator to it's own php file, and having the site's style change to match the banner's color and theme.

Wednesday, February 1 2006 @ 3:54PM

Gallery is up

Sorry it took so long, there were some issues with mySQL. Gentoo's PHP no longer builds SQL support by default, so after some digging I got it rebuilt with SQL functionality. The snag was that I also had to rebuild Apache's PHP module. Which wasn't really documented anywhere. Pictures are now up.

Some other minor changes occured as well. When you click on one of the links, it no longer keeps the url set to "http://www.jpopper.com". Apparantly when you ask GoDaddy.com to mask your domain name, it loads your page as a frame. Thus, when you link anything from the page, it loads it in a frame and the url is lost. Setting TARGET="_top" on all the links fixed that. The second minor change of the day is that the gallery can be found at gallery.jpopper.com. My resume can now also be found by clicking the resume link.

Thursday, December 8 2005 @ 2:15PM

Welcome!

Welcome to my website. I am currently in my third year at the University of Wisconsin--Madison pursuing a bachelor of science degree in Biochemistry. I plan on taking the MCAT this April and applying to Medical School. While I'm unsure exactly what type of medicine I'd like to practice, I greatly enjoy learning about immunology, and I love working with kids. Hopefully, I'll be able to get some more research experience under my belt to see if that is something I could do full-time in the future.

The inspiration for this site came after designing a page for an artificial intelligence course (CS540). I figured if I had to devote several hours to learning html and designing a page for my class, I might as well have a personal page too. Needing to learn PHP for work brought was a reason behind the scripts that load a portion of the page. For more technical details, read below. Enjoy your stay here!

Tuesday, December 6 2005 @ 2:12AM

Navigation

Above you can find links to my resume and my personal photo gallery. The links to the left are sites I visit frequently for classes, research, news and amusement.

Sunday, December 4 2005 @ 1:13AM

Site Design

The banner image at the top is a crop from my photo collection. A php script cycles through my image folder and randomly selects ones to display. This will change on refresh (try it, but remember that the same image can appear 2x or more in a row!) Most of the images are ones I have snapped over the last few years.

A php script also generates the links to the left. Rather than clutter my page with a long list of hyperlinks, which would mean having to edit this file every time links were added or removed (semester change, as I come across new sites, etc) I decided it was more elegant to script this. Each link section is stored in a different file, and their filenames are stored in a master index file. The script runs through the files and generates hyperlinks. As links are added and removed, the individual file simply needs to be edited.