Timothy Nary

Andy Ihnatko presents at Penn State.

This evening, I had the privilege of attending a lecture from Andy Ihnatko on “Being a Content Maker in an Increasingly Discontented World.”  I had never heard of him before, but I was following along with the campaign to bring him to campus via Twitter and I was interested in attending.  Andy is a nationally syndicated technology journalist for the Chicago Sun-Times, a technology author, and a regular host of the TWiT MacBreak Weekly podcast.  In addition, he has made guest appearances in tech segments of shows such as CBS’s The Early Show.  Tonight’s lecture addressed the challenges of working as a journalist/creator in a down market, as well as the opportunities available in a world where an individual can use the Internet to build his or her own brand. Read the rest of this entry »

SlideShare and authorSTREAM make sharing PowerPoints online Easy!

I’ve been casually working on a PowerPoint presentation for my IST 240 class the past few days.  My teacher asked my group if we were willing to talk to the class about our project and how a game engine works.  Tonight, as I was working on the website for our project (because, it’s just that cool!) I was looking for some way to share my PowerPoint online.  I know there are ways to save the slides as images and make a photostream of sorts with Flickr, but I have a lot of animations that help to explain how it works which would be lost.

Enter SlideShare and authorSTREAM. Read the rest of this entry »

Java Logo

I’ve wanted to blog about this in the past, but I haven’t quite had the time nor was I satisfied with my blog to write the post.  I have spent a good deal of this semester working on two projects, one of with is a game in Java called MegaPutt.  MegaPutt is a putt-putt golf game (similar to Mini-Putt, but obviously coded in Java and not Flash).  Like almost all projects in IST, it is a team project in which the goal is to demonstrate our knowledge of the material and object-oriented programming (OOP).  About halfway through the course we had enough skills to begin working on the project. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite the fact that it was snowing earlier this week, it is Spring, and with Spring comes Spring Cleaning! I spent a few hours tonight making a WordPress theme to match my personal website.  Before implementing it, I debated whether or not I wanted to continue with my old blog.  I thought it best at the time to start fresh, especially because I want to change the nature of my blog.  My posts will be more sporadic, but will be based on my experiences.  They will be much more personal in nature, instead of reflecting on current tech news and trends.  Hopefully you will enjoy it!

Happy Reading,
~ Tim