NCR needs a Webmaster/Developer!!!!! NOW!

[Steve Huntwork]

For some unknown reason, my private message offering my skills for the webmaster duties must have been lost.

Yesterday I was able to get my custom built array processor computer installed in my new home and ran diagnostics over the last 24 hours. No damage to the computer after my move from Minnesota to Colorado Springs and it is fully functional. With 540 processors running, it rapidly warmed up my room, and with the very cold temperatures this weekend, that extra heat was very much welcomed.

Today I have been exploring the PHP and AJAX website development tools and what I need to learn. Nothing that unusual and this should not take me more than about two weeks to get up to speed.

Question: How do I formally become a paying member of Northern Colorado Rocketry?

I have been a Software Engineer since 1972 and learn new skills very rapidly. There was a time when people like me would create databases and make human interfaces like SQL so simple, that anyone could use them without the need to know software skills.

A few years later, this was reversed upon me and I was not offered a job because I had not been formally trained to use SQL databases. Are you kidding me? I could write them from scratch! Hint about PHP, AJAX and website development…

So, what do I need to do formally with Warren Musselman and learn what is needed to keep this website going?

[Bret PackardParticipant]

Yeah for shunt1! I love this website and use it regularly. Unfortunately, being able log in is about the extent of my computing superpowers. Thanks for stepping up.

[Steve Huntwork]

For basic website management I should be able to take over very rapidly.

Improvements to the website will take me a little longer, but as I am exploring PHP and AJAX today, I do not see anything that difficult.

I am doing this for very selfish reasons. The only person in the State of Colorado that I currently know is my wife, who has only been here three months with her new RN job. What better way to make professional connections than by showing off my software skills with a new challenge?

But most of all, I want my level two certification. And without this website, I would not know where to find the help I may need.

Yup, totally selfish!

[BEAR]

Hey Shunt 1, help me out here. Your message at 13:35 this afternoon speaks of the move from the north country to Colorado Springs. Have I been laboring under a false impression that you had moved to Fort Collins? Or do you commute to the Springs from here? I also hope you build as good as you talk about languages and code. 😉

[Steve Huntwork]

Had to look at what you mentioned and I had typed Colorado Springs for some reason. Sorry!

Actually, during the first Gulf War, I was working in Colorado Springs at the Army Space Command and that is when I fell in love with this State.

My first time in Colorado was when we moved the WWII era nerve gas bombs out of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal next to Denver. Now those were scary times, since I kicked dead birds off of the steps each morning!

As for building rockets, I tend to error on the “tank” side. For my level 1 effort, the Wildman Darkstar Jr may end up being my final choice. However, since I have my own lathe and CNC milling machine, I may end up creating something out of carbon fiber according to my own concepts of atmospheric dynamics. The idea of milling a foam shape and covering it with carbon fiber is getting rather tempting, rather than being limited to tubes with fins. I want something that looks “organic!”

I am a pilot and have been building remote controlled model aircraft for a very long time. Even my cabin cruiser sailboat has taught me many lessons about optimizing fluid dynamics.

Sorry about the confusion…

[AdrianParticipant]

Welcome, and thank you!

[Warren B. MusselmanModerator]

OK Shunt, I guess I did miss the private message. Call me – 303-823-5059. My name is Warren. Make sure you tell me who you are.

[Steve Huntwork]

Thanks Warren and I will call you tomorrow.

Sorry that things have not worked out for you and I will always simply be your assistant! You have done all of the hard work when it counted the most.

[Dave Smith]

Thanks for all of your service Warren and your recent help with me. My first DD is in the building cue for maybe a summer launch.
I am glad and appreciative to see a member step into the webmaster role that Warren has done so well. Welcome to the club Shunt!

Unable to do any computer work unless it is playing chess, when the day comes for necessary translation of German Language documents, I will stand ready to jump forward on behalf of the club.

Shunt, regarding the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, I drive by that every day. I read that oil/gas companies are applying to drill there. What do you think?

[Jeremiah Johnson]

don’t hesitate to call me too if you guys meet – I can help walk thru the existing code 303-258-6475

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