About

What’s this all about?

Hi, I’m David Wheaton, a self-employed computer programmer living in Ojai, CA. I made this site a tech journal to keep track of projects and interests. Here’s what I’m currently interested in and working on:

• Python and django web application development. This is my bread and butter.
• CurbsideMe - Q&A site connecting doctors and industry researchers
• system administration (working with Ansible and Docker lately)
• Working on personal Unity3D serious game projects and enjoying C# programming
• Expanding my horizons and learning about various software engineering paradigms:
  • rule-based programming (RETE algorithm, Drools, etc.
  • simulation (specifically looking at the adevs codebase)
  • cognitive architectures (specifically focusing on Soar)
  • AI topics:
    • planning
    • symbolic programming
    • knowledge representaiton
    • ontologies
    • semantic web topics
    • and all that jazz
• Taking quite a few online classes
  • (completed 6/15/2016) edX 11.126x Introduction to Game Design - MITx
  • (completed 5/28/2016) Coursera Cryptography I - Stanford University
  • (completed 10/26/2015) Coursera Machine Learning - Stanford University
  • (completed 09/03/2015) Coursera Model Thinking - University of Michigan
  • (completed 08/10/2015) edX cs190.1x - Scalable Machine Learning
  • (completed 05/08/2015) edX EE40LX - Electronic Interfaces: Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds
  • (completed 05/05/2015) edX Engineering Software as a Service (SaaS), Part 2 - BerkeleyX
  • (completed 12/26/2014) edX Engineering Software as a Service (SaaS), Part 1 - BerkeleyX
  • a bunch of other udacity courses
  • a bunch of other math classes to brush up on calculus and re-learn and extend my existing knowledge of advanced maths such as differential equations and applications like numerical methods.
• an electronics project to make a programmable LED jo staff
• Music and DJ stuff
• Indie game programming
• Aikido
• Learning some easy guitar songs to play for my kids
• Showcase some interesting past projects: minks, flatweb, etc
• Making audio mix CDs with Audacity

I hope to write more about these topics as time permits!