Summer @ Facebook

This summer, I get to build stuff at Facebook. Fun!

Blasted Cursory

What does this phrase mean? I’m doing The Game at Stanford and this phrase is puzzling me…

Also, there were no hits on Google for the search “blasted cursory” so this is my attempt to mislead the others playing The Game. If you’re reading this — I hope you were misled!

Quoted

… “Diversity is really important,” Stanford University Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter Chair Feross Aboukhadijeh said. “If you’re starting a startup, you don’t want to hire people that are just like yourself because then you don’t get a variety of ideas.” …

– From The Oracle – Gender enrollment gap in science classes persists

From now on everyone has to call me “Stanford University Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter Chair Feross Aboukhadijeh” if you want to get my attention. Anything less than my full title and I won’t reply to you.

But seriously… what a ridiculously long way to introduce me…

Stanford iPhone App Final Project – iBoard

This is the iPhone app that I’m working on with my friend John Hiesey. iBoard is a networked drawing app that allows multiple users from around the world to draw together on the same drawing canvas in real-time. Use it to share your ideas — diagram, brainstorm, sketch, or doodle with your friends from around the world in real-time.

The video is from the final project presentations for the Stanford course CS193P: iPhone Programming. Before our demo, our iPod touch was accidentally disconnected from the server, so it caused a hiccup in our demo — but we still proved that it works using the iPhone simulators on our Macbook Pros.

Also, the name iBoard is likely to change before we put it on the App Store. Please share your comments and feedback!

MC Frontalot comes to Stanford!

Nerdcore! Aww yeah!

Last Tuesday, I got to hang out with “the world’s 579th greatest rapper,” MC Frontalot, before and after he performed at a Stanford concert! He is best-known for coining the term nerdcore and basically defining the whole nerdcore hip-hop musical genre. As you can tell by picture above, I dressed appropriately for the occasion. Read the rest of this entry »