I’ve been working with a team over the last few months to create a search engine that could sort by date for the local student newspaper. Among the open-source search engines available, Nutch seems to be the easiest to set up. However, I couldn’t find any tutorials on sorting by date so I decided to [...]
I’ve completed my first Facebook application: FriendFlash. It displays a photo of one of your friends and you have to pick which one it is from a list of choices. I built it because I have a lot of random Facebook friends and sometimes I have trouble remembering what they all look like. Check it out!
Ryan Pfister is an honors student majoring in information sciences and technology and economics at Penn State University. He is also a reporter and editor at The Daily Collegian, Penn State’s independent student newspaper. During the summer, he has worked on the information technology staff of major financial companies including Citgroup and Merrill Lynch.
To see what he’s working on right now, check out the Projects page. Also, check out his LinkedIn profile.