Jon Tavernier

Welcome to my landing page! I'm an information technology (IT) professional with most of my career spent in the health care industry. The links below represent my web presence with my blog being the most active of the bunch.

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Contact Me

Email me at jontav@yahoo.com. You can also find me on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Garmin Connect.

Cool Tech Stuff

Lately, I've enjoyed spending some free time exploring the following:

Tumblr, which powers my blog.
Twilio, which publishes a great API for SMS and voice fun.
Chicago Transit Authority API, used to check bus arrivals for getting to/from work.
Amazon's Web Services for cloud computing, storage, and distribution networks.
Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform for application hosting and database services.
Arduino plus Yenka make interacting with the environment a blast.
Gephi for analyzing social networks.
Coursera for awesome free courses such as Social Network Analysis and Critical Thinking.
Microsoft's MSDN SQL Server Forums are fun to explore as well.

Sunny Chicago

Here's the sun's position right now (11:18 pm) if you're stuck in a windowless Chicago building:

SunriseSunset

This works by using the Yahoo weather rss feed to capture the sun's sunrise & sunset time and some simple algebra to determine how far along the sun is in its day. Here's the sun's CSS that's generated.