 Justin Bartak
Title: Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ntractive
Ntractive History: Late 2003 - Present (August, 2008)
Blog: My Posts | All Posts
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Interests:
Hybrid Web Application Development,
Graphic Design,
Programming,
User Interface Design,
Firewalls,
Load Balancers,
Clustering/HA,
CSS,
XHTML,
XML,
MySQL,
SOAP,
SVG,
Canvas,
Lasso,
UNIX,
PERL,
Apache,
Marketing,
Branding,
Apple Technologies,
Mac OS X Server,
Media Content Creation,
Small Business Management,
Design,
Photography,
System Design and Architecture,
Technology.
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"Personal" Computers To Date:
Apple II (1977)
Macintosh SE (1984)
Macintosh IIci (1991)
Macintosh Quadra 840/AV (1993)
Macintosh 8100/110 (1994)
Radius 8100/110 - Clone (1996),
PowerBook G3 - Pismo (1997),
PowerMac G3 - Blue & White (1999),
PowerMac G4 - Graphite (1997),
PowerMac G4 - Mirrored Doors (2003),
PowerBook G4 - TiBook (2003),
PowerBook G4 17 (2004)
PowerMac G5 Dual - (2004),
PowerMac G5 Dual - (2005),
MacBook Pro 15 - San Rosa (2007).
Note: As you can see I like Apple Computers :-)
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Favorite Gadgets:
iPod Touch,
AppleTV,
MacBook Pro,
30" Cinema Display,
Drobo,
Tivo,
Garmin nuvi,
Nikon D80 DSLR,
Plasma and LCD TV's.
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Favorite Movies:
Too many to list (but I love the orginal Star Wars Trilogy).
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Favorite TV Shows:
Star Trek (1966),
Logan's Run (1977),
Planet of the Apes (1974),
Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century (1979),
Wonder Woman (1976),
Battlestar Galactica (1978), (1980), and (2004),
The A-Team (1983),
V (1993),
X-Files (1993),
Sliders (1995),
SG-1 (1997),
Futurama (1999),
Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999),
Dune (2000),
Alias (2001),
Taken (2002),
Lost (2004),
24 (2001),
The 4400 (2004),
The Office (2005),
Mad Men (2007).
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Favorite Books:
The Art of the Start (Guy Kawasaki),
Deception Point, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown), Technical Books (MySQL, Apache, Etc...).
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Favorite places to eat:
Bong Su (San Francisco, CA), Roys (San Francisco, CA or Orlanda, FL), Itchiban's (Minneaplolis, MN), Kon Nech Wa's (Grand Forks, ND), Panda Express (Mall of America, MN).
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Favorite Travel Destinations:
Disney World, New York City, San Francisco.
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Photo Gallery
Photo Blog: All My Photos (22)
08/16/2008
My Drobo's
08/16/2008
My Mac workstations at home
08/16/2008
Redundant power to our server
08/16/2008
More Fibre to our MySQL Database Shards
08/16/2008
4GB Fibre to xSAN
08/16/2008
Sneek Peek: Our new Document Management Element with refined UI and Workflow capabilities (very slick)!
08/16/2008
In Development: Our new internal Elements Admin App for rolling out system changes from Dev to Production.
08/16/2008
Our Zeus ZXTM 5.0 Application Delivery Platform (Check out our clusters pools. These ZXTM units rock!)
Favorite Quotes:
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Walt Disney
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