Douglas I. Anderson's home page

Note: The official URL for this site is now at disordat.com (this is the server sitting on my DSL connection).

Who Am I?

I always think that if people are going to have a web page for themselves that at least they should have a picture of themselves. The most recent digitial picture that I could find with me in it is on the left. From left to right, that's me, Eric Kunze, Cheryl Uyehara, Lisa Kunze, and Fei Cha.

I'm currently a software engineer for a company called Handspring. They make handheld computers like the Visor and recently "communicators" (handheld computers with cell phones built in) like the Treo. I've been working for Handspring for over 3 years now (ever since I graduated from college).

Before working for Handspring, I was a student at Stanford University studying Computer Science. At Stanford I earned my BS and my MS. While at Stanford, I was involved in a number of mostly computer related activities (yes, I'm a computer geek--I admit it). I was part of the excellent section leading program at Stanford in which undergraduates are involved in teaching the introduction to computer science class. I also was fortunate enough to teach an Assembly Language Programming class a few times.

I actually grew up in Silicon Valley (people tell me I'm one of the few Silicon Valley natives that they know). Before going to Stanford, I lived in Sunnyvale with my parents and attended Wilcox high school.

Links to Friends and Family

I have a few friends with web presences. Actually, it's not too many now that most of them have graduated from college and their old accounts have expired. Here are ones I could find (if I'm missing someone's page, let me know):

• Jeanie Ramos - My wife!
• Eric Anderson - My brother. His page is about as out of date as mine was.
• Ross Anderson - My dad. This is a page about the antennas he's designed.
• Joane Anderson - My mom. This is her site at West Valley College, where she teaches.
• Andrea Kuegel - One of my cousins. This page has some of her writing.
• Marci Kuegel - Another of my cousins. This is actually a web site showing clay sculptures she makes and sells called Skidgets.
• Lynn and William Kuegel - My aunt and uncle. This is also a page displaying their work.
• Priscilla Cinque - A friend from work. Lots of cool projects that she's worked on. Check out the peep movie.
• Bob Petersen - Another friend from work.
• Lisa Kunze - A friend from high school. Her page is pretty out of date too.
• Felix Feng - Former drawmate at Stanford. Note: this is his wedding page. He was recently married.
• Evance Mok - High school friend. This is also a wedding page.
• Grab Bag Design is a web site for a web design firm run by my friends Jeff Giles, Rahul Gupta, and Tim Dietrich.

Projects

I don't spend a whole lot of time these days on non-work computer projects. However, there are still a few things that I do.

• I've done a few programs for PalmOS. I've got a whole page devoted to those, so I won't really talk about them here.
• I'm running my own server at home. It does email, web, DNS, and a few other things. It hosts two domains. The first is disordat.com. The "disordat" name was inspired by the game "You Don't Know Jack", which my friends and I used to play a lot. The idea for the name goes to Solomon Lefler, who was one of my housemates several years ago. I use the "disordat" domain for random things like personal email, email aliases, and hosting this web page. The second server is byteswapped.com. "Byteswapped" is a computer term that referrs to data that is the wrong endianness. At least, that's how I've heard it used. Pretty nerdy, but I thought it was a neat domain name for computer-related stuff, so I use this domain name for hosting any software that I write.
• I have in the recent past taught a class on Assembly Language Programming at Stanford. Perhaps sometime in the future I'll have time to teach it again (I don't want to teach it again unless I have a lot of time to devote to it).
• On a work-related front, I gave a presentation at the most recent PalmSource developers conference. It was based on a tutorial that I wrote up for work.

Old Projects

These are projects that I used to work on, but I've kinda given up on.

• Old Wilcox email list - I used to try to keep track of email addresses for Wilcox High School students and alumni. Then, too many people got email addresses and it just became too hard. This list hasn't been updated in a while.
• Info about VNC - A now defunct how-to guide for using VNC with the Unix machines at Stanford. Recently, someone claims to have found it useful, so I haven't deleted this yet.
• BatchFTP 2.6.1 is an AppleScript that allows you to download a whole group of files at once based on a common prefix. It's written to use Peter Lewis's Anarchie. This script is pretty outdated now, though I guess someone might still get some use out of it. I don't use or maintain it any more (and haven't for years).

Misc. Links

I really don't have too many links here, since I'm pretty bad about keeping them up to date.

• Caltrain schedule - tells you where and when trains come and go.

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