Tag Archives: extremeblue

Outside the System

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Shannon Quinn

One of the first things we were shown last summer at the start of IBM’s ExtremeBlue internship was a picture along these lines: Unlike the one I provided, there was no caption, no alt text (it was on a PowerPoint), … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Blogging, extremeblue, Graduate School, GSoC, lolcat, Real Life | Tagged be a purple cow, charteuse, extremeblue, extremely purple, i can totally be a magenta marsupial, IBM, komodo dragon, no worries i got this, paradox, phd, platypus, publish or die, purple cow | 4 Comments

I had to tell an MBA to GTFO

Posted on August 27, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

Summer’s over, fall is here, and everything that entails is already in full swing. I won’t go into detail, but I will leave you with this bloopers clip I put together in the days after I left Raleigh but before … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, extremeblue, lolcat, movies, The Lady | Tagged !astroturfing, astrophysics, Blogging, bloopers, carnegie mellon, cms, cmu, computational modeling, css, extremeblue, gotta love academia, html, IBM, machine learning, quantum physics, slif, stars and galaxies, thesis research, web application development | 5 Comments

IBM ExtremeBlue Project Expo 2009

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this year’s North American EB Project Expo has commenced. Given my previous entry regarding the local expo in Research Triangle Park, NC, I figured I would highlight the fact that over the next two … Continue reading →

Posted in extremeblue, Real Life | Tagged almaden, armonk, austin, eb2009expo, expo, extremeblue, IBM, ibm corporate headquarters, ibm learning center, raleigh, toronto, twitter, xfiles | Leave a comment

It’s Expo Time! It’s Expo Time!

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

Today is the local project expo in Research Triangle Park, showcasing what we ExtremeBlue interns have been working on since late May. ::Edit:: I apologize for the brevity of this post and the quality of the pictures – the entire … Continue reading →

Posted in extremeblue, i ken make living plz, Real Life, Technology | Tagged awesome sauce, awesomeness, cloud 9, extremeblue, free lemon squares, geekery, IBM, nerdulance, nimbus express, project expo, pulss, raleigh, research triangle park, x-files | 9 Comments

Murphy’s Law

Posted on July 28, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” Granted, I can’t say I’m cursed, unlike this wayward baseball team: Today, with a mere 2.5 weeks left in our summer at ExtremeBlue, we’re enacting a code freeze on our project in … Continue reading →

Posted in lolcat, Programming, Real Life, Technology | Tagged code freeze, context sensitive, demo, dojo, expo, extremeblue, get, give the signal, i can haz program that wurkz, i must love what i do because i keep doing it, IBM, lolcat, lotus notes, murphy's law, rest, websphere, wtf is going on | 4 Comments

Insert corporate buzzword here

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

Don’t get too excited; my resurfacing is only temporary for the time being. 😛 To those of you interested in my off-duty programming: I am indeed making progress on the CMS front. The system structure is beginning to unfold nicely, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, i ken make living plz, Programming, Real Life | Tagged california, cms, content management system, extremeblue, i don't even like blogging can't you tell, IBM, quickr, raleigh, texas, wiki | 2 Comments

Greetings from Raleigh

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

Since last I posted, I have relocated to Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina and completed my first week with the IBM ExtremeBlue program. It was a grueling week, for sure; introductions, HR setups, and project meetings. Without going into too much detail, … Continue reading →

Posted in lolcat, Programming, Real Life | Tagged 10000 visits, agile, capstone, content management system, eclipse, extremeblue, IBM, j2ee, lolcat, mvc, north carolina, quickr, raleigh, rational application developer, scrum, servlet, toodles | Leave a comment

10 days of summer vacation starts…now

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

After having arrived in Atlanta from Pittsburgh last Saturday night but still tied down with two to-be-completed projects, I emailed out the last write-up five minutes ago and am now OFFICIALLY on summer vacation. …for the next 10 days, at … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Graduate School, lolcat | Tagged computational biology, extremeblue, IBM, lolcat, raleigh, shannon is finished with work and ready to ignore your demands, summer vacation | 8 Comments

It’s the most wonderful time of the summer

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

I’ve noticed an interesting trend in this blog’s visiting statistics of late: quite a few more hits as a result of programming searches – and, specifically, Google’s Summer of Code – are referring people to my blog. It makes sense, … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, GSoC, Internet, Programming | Tagged amy stephen, apache, callback, cms, coalescent theory, computational learning theory, content management system, drupal, extremeblue, google summer of code, html, it's bad when code you wrote a few months ago is unrecognizeable, joomla, php, pidgin, post, sql, tagalongs, wordpress, wordpress plugin, wordpress synchronizer, xmlrpc | Leave a comment

For 24 hours, I am a stud

Posted on February 14, 2009 by Shannon Quinn

My girlfriend in particular has been enjoying this (short) period of time, during which I have been readily admitting that I am a stud muffin and a badass mofo. Why, you ask? Well…I haven’t publicized it here very well, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Real Life, The Lady | Tagged carnegie mellon, extremeblue, IBM, internships, interviews, jaclyn decicco, network nights, new york, north carolina, quickr, research triangle park | 3 Comments

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