Daniel T. Martin

This is my personal page. There is not much content as every time I tell myself I'm going to put content up, I decide that I really don't have a coherent body of things to say.

It isn't that I don't have anything, I just don't have a coherent vision and structure. After all, this is just a place where I throw stuff when I want other people to be able to look at it. So it's just stuff I've done, or collected, or have for who knows what reason. Maybe I should implement a system that automatically makes available links to everything in the directory, though I'm not sure that's such a great idea.

So here's an unordered list of some of what's here:

• A map of Carleton College with photos linked in. I attended Carleton from 1993 to 1997, and one fine spring morning managed to snag campus computing's digital camera for the weekend. (hey, in 1997 a digital camera was a big deal) This is the eventual result.
• The printable (somewhat) manual to Apache ant, that java-specific make replacement everyone's using these days. Be aware that it's for ant version 1.4 only, and I don't know when I'll get around to making a printable version of the manual to recent ant versions. (if ever)
• Fun with continuations in Ruby - this is me re-implementing an old scheme idea in ruby, the scripting language that really wants to be smalltalk. ("re-implementing" sounds much better than "ripping off") You might want to whet your appetite by beginning with what this can do, and then look back at the full thing for how it does it.
• There's also this followup, also in ruby, where I extend the idea above to have some fun with basic probability. There's also the same probabilities in Haskell.
• Saint Mary's Music Library. An experiment by my wife in cataloging and by me in HTML::Mason. The web design isn't meant to dazzle - it's meant to be just the facts. The bit I like best is the query parser - go ahead, type in something invalid and see what it does. (check the help on searching first)
• Some C code to validate utf-8 byte streams. Use freely; the code is licensed under the Apache license, but feel free to adapt the algorithms to other languages at your own risk without any acknowledgement as described in the README file.

Because there are many “Daniel Martin”s, I should say that I am the Daniel Martin who attended Wissahickon High School from 1989 until 1993, Carleton College from 1993 until 1997, and the Johns Hopkins University from 1997 until 2000. I worked for FAME Information Services in Princeton from 2000 until FAME's acquisition by SunGard in 2004, at which point I worked for SunGard out of New York until August 2007, when I left to go work for Google, also in New York.

Make no mistake - I am the one true Daniel Martin, despite the fact that someone else already snatched up www.danielmartin.com and www.danielmartin.org.

 

Some people might want to email me.

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