Credits and Appreciations
Aaaaand... Role 'n'd credits!
Game Control
- Benjamin Juang
- Ben is a software engineer at Threadflip.com, a online marketplace devoted to helping women sell new and pre-loved vintage and brand-name clothing from their closet. He graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from UIUC in 2008. Cursed with a fondness of new shiny things, he often considers himself a wannabe hacker (in the original sense of the word) with jack of all trades skillset (from basic sysadmin skills for a LAMP or RoR stack, to whipping up a puzzle contest site in a month or so in his spare time). Other side hobbies include consuming fantasy / science fiction, napping, and trying to teach his two cats new tricks. He has a infrequently used public twitter account at @benjuang and slightly more active github account.
- David Tan
- David (also known as Dan) is a QA Ninja at SAVO Group. In between his daily nerf wars, he wanders the company floor and shatters the illusion of perfection for his developers. He wishes people would realize how important software testers are and awaits the day a tester receieves an award for finding a critical bug and pushing back a release date. In his spare time he is cross-training himself as a product designer and giving feedback on various project's user experience. Bounce an idea off him, he will be happy to give you feedback on the pros/cons of it from his opinion. He also writes apps for the Window Phone!!!
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Last, but not least...
A heartfelt thanks to everyone that helps run (/ manage / organize / herd) the student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery at the University of Illinois (ACM@UIUC). Without them, we wouldn't have the Reflections | Projections conference, and without the conference, there wouldn't be a PuzzleBang.
Technology
This Ruby on Rails site is hosted on Linode!
The server runs Ubuntu, with Apache, Passenger, and MySQL. The front-end is sculpted with Bootstrap, Compass, and jQuery.