Websites Designed By Nick and Alma Nick and Alma have been working for over a year on a series of Japanese martial arts-related websites. aikidokyokai.com - The website for the Sosei Aikido Kyokai organization, dedicated to improving the standards and spreading knowledge of Aikido. iaido-chicago.com - The website for the companion organization that supports Iaido, the Japanese martial art of samurai swordsmanship. acenterforthemartialarts.com - The website for Soseikan dojo and the programs located at the martial arts building in Worth, Illinois. All of these sites are built on Wordpress, with design templates that were created by Alma and using Google web services to provide dynamic content, developed by Nick. These sites are tied into Twitter and Facebook too, and the various web sites cross-post information between them. If you would like some web design assistance, feel free to contact Nick at nmeshe [at] gmail [dot] com and he will do his best to help you.

The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes! If you are a frequent visitor to meshes.com, we commend you. Even we aren't frequent visitors. If you are an infrequent visitor to meshes.com, you might notice this website rarely changes. While both Nick and Alma work in Web Development and Design, we never spend any time working on this site. But Nick would like to change that in 2010! Please check back in a month or so and see if anything changes. If not, feel free to yell at Nick who can be reached at nmeshe [at] gmail [dot] com (if you want a quicker response) or less frequently at nickispro [at] hotmail [dot] com (if time is no object).

Photos galore! After many long hours of work, we finally have photos of our honeymoon uploaded. There are also photos of our wedding, however there will be more of those to come. Be warned... there are A LOT of pictures. Please set aside a few days to look at them all!

Experience The Wedding of Alma and Nick! Saturday, October 27th, 2007. A once in a lifetime event. There will be cake. Oh yes, there will be cake!

Breaking News! Webmaster Honey Macker's Tawdry History Sources have confirmed that beloved "best friend" and internet genius Honey Macker has not been forthright with her past. When accepting the position of Web Master for Meshes.com, she stated that she had no prior criminal record. For that reason as well as the limited finances of Meshes.com, the organization did not run the standard background check.

Just recently, incriminating photos have surfaced, showing that she has a sordid history involving illegal trafficking of Milkbones, civil disobedience, and even a failed escape from prison. In the prison cell-block photograph, you can clearly see Honey Macker as the second dog from the left in the front row.

In a statement released recently, Ms. Macker stated that she has been employed with Meshes.com for several years now and feels that her "record of good and faithful service as well as her effort to keep her nose clean" should prove that her youthful indiscretions should be "stricken from the record". When asked to comment on the situation, Nick Meshes said she "lies like a dog".

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Alma Case on Meshes.com Meshes.com is now hosting Alma Case. She is a gifted student in Graphic Design and Animation. We hope to have lots of additions from her and her artwork.

Experience The Wedding of Sarah and Jerod! Sarah Case married Jerod DiBacco on July 10th, 2005. The world has been better ever since.

Quick Links Look at all those cool quick links below. Some are useful and others are just for fun.

New Research My notes on preparing IT students for interviews and working Links to Chicago bars and clubs

Overview of Object Orientation Before you begin programming in Java or any other object-oriented language. you should first learn basic OO principles. Object Orientation PowerPoint

Java Basics The basics course in Java. Java Basics PowerPoint Java Seminar Resources

Java Server Simple J2EE development as well as writing straight networking code. Java Server Resources Java Server PowerPoint

Building Web Applications (J2EE) Using advanced J2EE concepts as well as Jakarta projects. J2EE: Building Web Applications PowerPoint J2EE: Building Web Applications Resources (seminar.zip)

Building Frameworks (Component Development) Now that you can build web applications in Java, let's tie in some good design principles. Java: Building Frameworks Resources Java: Building Frameworks PowerPoint Participants' Compiled Work Note: The compiled work is only the code/resources students actually modified. To build an entire Tomcat context, you may need resources from theResources zip.

API Documentation Java API documentation (1.4) Servlets API Documentation (2.3) J2EE API Documentation (1.3) Struts API Documentation (1.3)

Portfolio of Alma Case Alma Case, a student of Graphic Design, who's pursuing a degree in Animation. Some Flash work is currently available but more work from Alma should be up soon.

Renderman-compliant Work When I was in college, I took some courses in 3D Graphics Programming. Here is my final project with some links. A ship flying through space, hand-modeled and rendered in BMRT, the poor man's Renderman. With source.

The CSS Game: An Experiment in Designing a 3-D Game The project management website for the DePaul Computer Science Society Game. Lots of links to other game development websites and tools.

So You Wanna Make A Game? A website I made on Game Design, A joint venture of Computer Science Society and DePaul's School of CTI I recommend the "Start Here" section.

3D Engines Lists A mirror of a list of 3D engines compiled by Karsten Isakovic - No longer maintained. Engine List 1 Engine List 2 Engine List 3

Poetry The Feeling of Christmas Don't Call Me Tony

Other writing An ode to things that matter Chris Chringell and the Confrontation of Christmas (original) Chris Chringell and the Confrontation of Christmas (bawlderized) The Exchange of Gifts A Soldier's Christmas Old Articles I Wrote

The Meshi Clan I am one member of an entire family of gifted and creative people. A long time ago, we agreed that if you have one of us, it's a Meshes. If you have two or more, they're Meshi. I've been told that Meshi are an odd lot, but I don't really see it. What I do see is that we can accomplish great things. My sister, Theresa, is studying for her PhD in Mathematics at Northern Illinois University. Previously at Dominican University, she presented research focusing on the odds and statistics of the television series, The Weakest Link. From her studies, she determined winning strategies and she presented her research at several Mathematics conferences. My younger sister, Beth is studying medicine at Benedictine University. Her claim to fame on the Internet is her lyrical contribution to local band The Nix My brother, George, recently graduated from high school.

Honorary Meshi The crowd of people that hang around with Meshi have their own style. They maintain a distant attitude and amuse themselves by rallying with each other in a belief that the Meshi can be ridiculous, which we can. Alma Case and Jeff Campen coined the term "Honorary Meshi". Alma Case is a student in Computer Animation at Westwood College. We have just begun to display her works. Sometimes, Meshi are known to party too hard.

DePaul University I have a Bachelor's in Computer Science (Programming) from DePaul University. While at DePaul, I was involved with leading the student organization, CSS. DePaul University > School of CTI (Computer Science) > Computer Science Society I remain active in mentoring students and other alumni through the "Alumni Sharing Knowledge" program Here are some of my notes on preparing students for interviews and working and the types of job roles in software development.

My Favorite Places on Earth My entire life, I ahve lived in the suburbs of Chicago. However, I also enjoy traveling. Some of my favorite places include: Bars and Clubs in Chicago The Brookfield Zoo and the Lincoln Park Zoo Starved Rock State Park, Illinois Great Smokey Mountains National Park, Tennessee Orlando, Florida Munich, Germany Innsbruck, Austria

Various and Sundry Links An Old Version of this Homepage

No matter what you call it, it sucks. Your computer slows and crashes. Everything you try to do seems to cause unexpected behavior. You have windows popping up everywhere. You have more toolbars than you know what to do with. You put your head in your hands and you cry. Well, cry on my shoulder, baby, 'cause I can help you.

Spyware Info Forum Probably the premiere place for advice with any malware issues you might be having.

Ad-Aware from Lavasoft My favorite tool for getting rid of malware

Spybot Search & Destroy from Safer Networking An equally popular and powerful tool for getting rid of malware

Merijn Creates a variety of tools that can help. HijackThis creates a log of running processes, DLLs, etc that can help diagnose issues and are often needed to get help on the Spyware Info Forum. CWShredder gets rid of Cool Web Search, one of the nastier slimewares out there.

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