William Gill

I am a web producer for the Division of the Chief Information Officer at Rensselaer where I focus on interfacing a variety of web-enabled technologies with enterprise systems. I am currently enrolled in the Masters of Information Technology & Web Science program at Rensselaer and teach Web Systems Development in the spring semesters.

OPENLENS

Openlens.us is a living resume for William Gill and contains documenation of web, photography, and other projects that are in use or somehow deployed.

  • Getting out of Google Maps

    June 21, 2011
    I have an interest in the curatorial and way-finding possibilities made possible by GPS and web enabled mobile devices. Over the winter I investigated...

  • Web Systems Development at RPI

    May 16, 2011
    This semester, the weather got nice just as we started exploring HTML5. I’d also noticed that about half my students had smart phones –...

  • Menands Bridge Connection

    May 8, 2011
    The new connection from S. Troy to the Albany bike trail is a huge win. We went down to Albany today and it was...

  • JSON output in Drupal 7

    April 17, 2011
    I need to expose some nodes in Drupal 7 as JSON for downstream consumers. I spend about 45 minutes Googleing for a Drupal 7...

  • Railroad Photography

    March 15, 2011
    I’ve been trying some railroad photography inspired by the 1950′s stuff. Oddly enough, I’ve found the mainline style stuff far harder than getting photos...

  • Dredge Billboard

    January 23, 2011
    We built this fabric cover for a GE anti dredging billboard in 2001. The project taught me two things: in the future, covers shouldn’t...

  • Model Railroad Photography

    January 8, 2011
    My father wrote an article on creating period fonts for the October 2010 Model Railroad Craftsman. I took the model photos for him. I...

  • Deploying a Website for Pioneer Market

    December 27, 2010
    Pioneer Market is a Food Coop in Troy, NY. In October, the market opened its storefront, at which point the marketing team needed a...

  • Your Crush, On the Big Board

    December 22, 2010
    I just noticed likealittle and thought what they were doing was pretty awesome. And then I thought: this would be so much more awesome...

  • News Aggregation

    December 6, 2010
    MorningMail is a news & event aggregator, curration and distribution system. It is currently being tested and should go into production for the start...

Troy At Night

I've been documenting nocturnal Troy for the last few years. Troy at Night publishes my own photographs covering the party scene, urban exploring, graffiti, and the people who come out at night.

I Heart Trains

Trains are pretty awesome. Ihearttrains is a site dedicated to train and model railroad photography and centers around the modeling at RPI's model railroad club and the lines around Troy, NY, the Capital District and Vermont.