Greetings, and welcome to my sporadically-maintained webpage.

About Me

If your interest in me is professional, you'll want to start by reading my resume:
Resume for JD Weiner in PDF format
Please note that although I have a fair amount of experience with ATG Dynamo, I will not accept any position that involves working with it. Likewise, although it says SAS on my resume, please don't ask me to take SAS jobs - I'm really not qualified for them, and I wouldn't enjoy them anyway. Thanks. That said, what I do like is work that involves large Unix installations and solving hard problems. I'm especially interested in architectural and infrastructure issues, and in applying proper discipline to the field of system administration.

If your interest in me is other than professional, you might like to see my photos - in the last year or so, I've gotten fairly heavily into digital photography, and am working hard at improving my skills.

Software

• Bubble, a User Bulletin Board modelled after the one on the Boston University student cluster
• ulogbufd, a user-space log buffer daemon
• visproxy, a protocol-visualizing web proxy
• hydrashell, a tool for working on multiple hosts at once

Writings

• The Design and Implementation of a Knowledge Management System for the Field of System and Data Center Administration, a paper for my Knowledge Management class with Prof. Caroline Sdano in Spring 2004. Examines the prospects for a KMS designed for system administration and data center administration, covering technical design, human factors, and budgeting.
• Why Java Sucks for Sysadmins, a screed on everybody's favorite programming language and why it's not well-suited for Unix systems. (Please note that this was originally written several years ago, and some things in it may no longer be correct - yes, folks, believe it or not, not everything on the Web was written five minutes ago - so please do not write to me with specific factual corrections. Nonetheless, I still believe in the fundamentals of it.)

Photos