JohnPeebles.com - John Peebles' Website

about me

I love learning and trying to wrap my head around challenging problems. Whether it's is chemistry or calculus, literary criticism or 20^th century American history, there is nothing better than realizing that something I am working on isn't as straightforward as it appears. That's the most important thing about me. To contact me, you can follow the preceding link.

I also have extensive experience with web technologies including XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, JSF, Facelets, Spring, and Hibernate, as well as more conventional technologies like JAVA, Photoshop, NetBeans, and Visual Basic, gained from experimenting on my own since the age of six, as well as from working at SAS Institute Inc. Some technologies I have moderate experience with include JScript/JavaScript/ECMAScript, Flash, Ant, Apache, ASP, and Lightwave. I have a little bit of experience with SAS9, JMP, the GIMP, and GNU MathProg.

about this website

This is the only web presence I have. In other words, if you find another site or blog or whatever from a John Peebles, it is not mine. The rest of this page is for those more technically inclined. This website uses a custom–designed (by me) PHP content management system, although it doesn't appear this way from most examinations of the site because I strip the PHP headers using mod_headers to save bandwidth and I use the mod_rewrite Apache extension to redirect the html pages to the PHP CMS URL. I'm also using an MySQL-based website statistics system I developed, as well as a MySQL-based photo gallery system I developed on the photography portfolio page. The page is XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.1 compliant, though the W3C Validator will not validate the page, as it does not support XHTML Schema-based validation, even though using Schemas is an official W3C recommendation, but without the xsi:schemaLocation attribute, it validates completely. The site is fully accessible in screen readers for the blind, even if the user decides to ignore web standards and use the screen stylesheet. It has been fully tested with and displays everything fine in IE6.1 SP1+, Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Safari 3.1.2+, and Opera 9.5.2+. No other versions or browsers have been tested.

Copyright © 2008-2010 John Peebles—Copyright claimed on all content, stylesheets, images, scripts, videos, sound, source code, copyrightable portions of derivative works, and computer programs available on this website, unless otherwise stated. Copyright not claimed on the original, unmodified public domain NASA images. All rights reserved. This site is intended purely for general academic inquiries, and specifics of a situation may render the information presented on it void, or even cause the information to be harmful. There is a good faith attempt to provide accurate information, but I am only one person and am only a college freshman. As I am not familiar with the specifics of whatever your case is and the information is not designed to be applied to specific cases and the information may not be fully accurate, there is no warranty either expressed or implied on the information presented here, so if you decide to actually use the information on this website for something, I assume no liability for any harms which may arise from such use. Links to other websites do not constitute endorsements of the sites, their authors, nor their content, and constitute information for which I assume no liability under the previous part of this disclaimer.