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_Disclaimer: These screenshots in no way represent my actual interest/interview status with companies. I have randomly selected companies to demo the smiley face moods, so the sad/happy faces do not reflect my actual sentiments towards those companies._

You know how companies have these online systems in place to keep track of all their job candidates?

In the last semester of my senior year, I felt so overwhelmed with all of the companies that I was interviewing with that I decided to create the reverse - **an online system for me, the job candidate, to keep track of all the companies**. Side note: I thought I was solving a greater need when a couple of my friends told me, "Amber, nobody else has these problems".

Basically, you can create buckets and companies to go into those buckets, annotating each company with your current "mood" in happy/sad faces (IMHO, this is the most awesome feature). By default, I have "Interested", "Waiting", "Interviewing", and "Received Offer" buckets but everything is renamable and editable so you can feel free to use this application for anything you need (e.g. graduate school application tracking).

I'm currently in the process of adding new features&mdash;the ability to add notes for each company (deadlines, locations, etc) and backend storage (the app currently uses local storage, don't clear your browser data) are at the top of my list, but feel free to contact me if you'd like to see anything else.

This project was also an awesome opportunity for me to teach myself [Backbone.js], which I've been meaning to learn for a while. I will blog about my experiences sometime and/or open source the code!

[Backbone.js]: http://backbonejs.org/


Hiree


This was my last Yahoo HackU ever, since I'll be graduating this semester!

To celebrate this occasion, my friends Brandon Wang, Allen Chen, and I redid the classic game Bombermen as a real-time, multiplayer, WebGL game. We won honorable mention, and although we won't be posting the code or putting it online just yet (we still need to clean it up, bear with us), here's a sneak peek of the gameplay.

PS: If you can't tell, I won. (:

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Bombermen


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CrowdDb is a hybrid computer-human database that processes queries using crowd-sourcing if the data in the database is incomplete or if the query is asking about something that machines are notoriously bad at doing (ex. entity resolution, matching photos).

This is a research project I worked on last summer in collaboration with (primarily) [Reynold Xin] and [Andrew Wang].

We've published two papers so far:

* [VLDB '11 CrowdDb: Query Processing with the VLDB Crowd] - VLDB Best Demo Award '11
* [SIGMOD '11 CrowdDb: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing]

If you're interested in finding out more information, we'll be releasing a website soon, with screenshots and screencasts. You can also follow [@crowddb] on Twitter for updates.

[Reynold Xin]: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rxin/
[Andrew Wang]: http://www.umbrant.com
[VLDB '11 CrowdDb: Query Processing with the VLDB Crowd]: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rxin/papers/crowddb-vldb2011.pdf
[SIGMOD '11 CrowdDb: Answering Queries with Crowdsourcing]: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~rxin/papers/crowddb_sigmod2011.pdf
[@crowddb]:http://twitter.com/#!/crowddb


CrowdDB


I teach the Web Design Decal (at Berkeley, "decals" are courses founded, organized, and taught by students), and this year, I decided to revamp the website!

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The website includes roll-taking for students, assignment submission and grading, and other class instructional tools.

Built in collaboration with Jonathan Ko, original site built by <a href="http://www.aw-industries.com/">Alexander Wong</a> and Jonathan Mui.


Web Design Decal


This semester I'm taking a Data Sciences courses (taught by Jeff Hammerbacher of Facebook/Cloudera), and our second assignment was to, given nutritional data about different cereal brands, create a dashboard/visualization to display the data. I couldn't help but go all out on the design.

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Cereal Visualization


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"Official description": WebIDE is a collaborative (real-time) browser IDE complete with syntax highlighting, compile/warning line highlighting, method list via reflection and byte-code analysis, and in-browser console (with standard input).

WebIDE is a hack my friends and I built overnight in <b>18 hours</b> for Yahoo's University Hack Day here at UC Berkeley! Super useful for online pair programming, WebIDE highlights syntax errors on the fly and can even run Java programs and take standard from inside the browser. I'll admit the design isn't up to par with the usual, but we still got 2nd place out of around 30-40 teams!

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WebIDE

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Last weekend, I went up to Berkeley to measure my new tiny apartment room to decide what furniture my roommate and I would be able to fit in it.

Trying to work out the measurements on paper, I was inspired to build an application to do it for me (because why do something in 10 minutes when you can build something in 15 hours to do it for you?).

I quickly pulled this application together in a day or so, using JQuery UI's draggable and droppable handlers. Currently, the application supports: editing the room size, creating flat lines for doors/closets and rectangles for beds/desks, dragging objects around with snap-to-objects and snap-to-grid, and rotating and deleting objects.

Please check it out and tell me what you think!


REorganize


Raise your hand if you have ever been annoyed trying to keep track of shared apartment expenses and/or forgetting how much someone owes you.

Last year, I built the first version of Expendite (Yes, I think that name is clever) to manage expenses in my apartment - keeping a running total of who owed who what, and supporting marked payments and consolidation. I was pleasantly surprised when many of my friends asked if they could use the application as well, and I vowed to make the user experience better when I had the time

This summer, I started working on it again. I revamped the design, factored my quite appalling Ruby code, added regression testing, and added a few new features. The application is still in 'beta', which means you have to go through me to get an account, but I'm planning on opening up soon. Don't be put off by the semi-lack of cool functionality -- I'm forever working on new features!

**Update: Sadly, Expendite has been discontinued as of 1/6/13.**

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