CoolRock Software

I’ve been working on email archiving and discovery software at CoolRock Software in Melbourne since April 2007.

After years of teaching c++ at uni, and enjoying Ruby on Rails and Python for my personal projects I’m using Java again. I’m developing under MacOS, but the target operating systems are mainly Linux and MS Windows.

I’ve been using spring a lot, and developed an IMAP server using ANTLR for parsing.

I also needed to do some MS Windows work. I’ve set up MS Windows Server 2003, with Exchange Enterprise Edition, and lots of VMs via vmware, and I’m working developing in c++ and c#. I’m using Wireshark to help with tcp/http debugging.

I’m using MS Project 2007 for project planning and tracking at a high level, and Jira for issue tracking.

I’ve attended several events at the Melbourne chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI). I happy to report that I won the door prize at the first meeting (thanks Terra Firma!).

Feel free to contact me if I can do anything for you.

Carrick Citation

Based on our work on the project subjects Phillip Musumeci and I won a Carrick Citation for outstanding contributions to student learning in 2006:

“For creation of industry project subjects that cultivate practical skills for understanding problems and managing risks, supported by collaborative tools for peer review and reflection”

The Carrick citations are a government funded national award scheme managed by the Carrick Institute.

The platform for collaboration mentioned above is MoinMoin wiki, modified to only allow access by students. Each student maintains a wiki page to show the progress of their project. Students can easily share ideas and look at how past projects proceeded (or even improve the subject guidelines!).

I want to thank the IT lecturers in Cairns and Chris Christensen in Townsville for helping us to run these subjects and giving us great ideas; Tony Gleeson for helping us with the application; and PJ Radcliffe for providing us with the inspiration for these subjects.

Posted on Oct 04, 2006, permalink

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