Pek Pongpaet

We’re hiring like crazy. Roundarch is a consultancy specializing in Rich Internet Applications. Here are some open positions:

• .NET Developer at Roundarch Inc. | Chicago, IL, United States
• Art Director at Roundarch Inc. | New York, NY, United States
• Art Director at Roundarch Inc. | Chicago, IL, United States
• C2/Sr. Developer (J2EE) at Roundarch Inc. | New York, NY, United States
• Functional Analyst at Roundarch Inc. | New York, NY, United States
• Functional Lead at Roundarch Inc. | New York, NY, United States
• Interwoven Developer at Roundarch Inc. | New York, NY, United States
• Java/J2EE Developer at Roundarch Inc. | Chicago, IL, United States
• Java/J2EE Technical Lead at Roundarch Inc. | Chicago, IL, United States
• Lead Flex Developer at Roundarch Inc. | Chicago, IL, United States
• Senior .NET Developer at Roundarch Inc. | Chicago, IL, United States
• Senior .NET DevelopeSenior Flash Developer at Roundarch Inc. | Chicago, IL, United States
• Senior Java Developer with Autonomy Search at Roundarch Inc. | New York, NY, United States
• Senior Java/J2EE Developer at Roundarch Inc. | Chicago, IL, United States
• Senior User Experience Designer at Roundarch Inc. | Chicago, IL, United States
• System Administrator at Roundarch Inc. | Chicago, IL, United States

Please send requests and your resume to ppongpaet at roundarch dot com and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

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Level 3 Communications does these Red Couch interviews at various tech events. This one was shot at SXSW Interactive, a yearly technology conference in Austin Texas.

I…sound…like…a…child. I guess I don’t realize how I sound to other people and in my mind I sound very different from what I am hearing in this interview. No wonder nobody takes me seriously. Notice they butchered my name even after I wrote it down for them.

Combined with Slant TV, that’s 2 media hits this month. Sweet.

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My friend Shelly Mujtaba, lead developer of Project Dragonfly, was interviewed over the web. Dragofly is a free online 2D/3D home layout design Rich Internet Application created by AutoDesk. Check out the video series here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D2617D775224DEBF

Read a review of it I posted earlier this year here.

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Slant TV is Chicago’s Asian American cultural TV show on local cable channel KBC-TV. A couple weeks ago, they came to Extreme Kung Fu Martial Arts school run by Tony Marquez of Mortal Kombat fame to do a segment on the school.

I think it’s a great idea. I’m glad they came over to give the school some exposure. What’s up with the name – Slant though. Makes me think of slanty Asian eyes and that irks me.

Catch me doing a bit of my broadsword segment at time index 6:09

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I’ve been playing with the idea of an inexpensive large collaborative wall. Part of the requirements for my large interactive touch screen is that it has to be multitouch and provide a more natural way of interfacing with it other than mouse and keyboard. Johnny Lee has shown that you can build one pretty cheaply. You can set one up using just a couple Wii remotes, a projection screen, and a homemade IR pen. You can then create a virtual whiteboard application pretty easily.

The problem with virtual whiteboards is that all the drawings and text are just graphics. They don’t mean anything to the system. The text isn’t really text. It would be better if you could write the letters and have them be interpreted as real text.

Using an open source Flash based mouse gesture library, I put together a concept virtual corkboard that lets you write letters with your mouse (or IR pen) and put that text on virtual PostIt notes that you can place anywhere on the board.

Check out the video:

Of course, this isn’t the only way to tackle this problem. One could just do OCR on the drawings and figure out the text that way like the mobile app EverNote, but this is just one solution.

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