Jon Craton

My name is Jon Craton. I am currently in my third year of university working towards a BS in computer engineering. I am interested in technology, security, and anything else that presents a new challenge. I also enjoy thinking about philosophy, physics, and artificial intellence. People often ask me what I plan to do after college, but at this point I don't know for sure. I am mostly looking for an opportunity which is both challenging and useful. That may lead me to attempting a startup, or it may lead me to join an innovative organization similar to 37Signals or Google which will provide me with significant room to learn and expand, or it may lead down a completely different path.

I was born in Oswestry, England to missionary parents. My family moved to Indiana when I was 3 years old in order for my father to take a position at Taylor University. I became interested in computers early on in life. I got my start doing BASIC programming on an old 386 that was laying around our house. In high school, I became very attached to computing and security as I began to explore software vulnerabilities and exploitation. From that time on I have spent a significant amount my free time learning new languages and algorithms as well as just keeping up with technology. This has led me to several interesting jobs and internships which have further expanded my skill set. If you want to know more about the details of that, you should probably check out my resume.

I generally try to keep up with new technologies that come around and I enjoy learning about new things. Aside from the projects that I have worked on in the engineering department, I have also experimented with and assortment of projects on the side. I have used many different programming languages all the way from assembly on microprocessors up to Ruby on Rails.

Sometimes people are curious about what applications and utilities I find useful and use. I have compiled those into a file section of my site. Most of the links just point to the developer's page, but a few of the harder to find utilities are mirrored here.

There isn't a whole lot to see on my site at the moment. I've got a blog-like page where I write about significant happenings in my life as well as other random events. I've got a few pictures here as well if those sound interesting to you. I have been to a couple interesting places in my short life. The pictures here start in the summer of 2007 and include images from Croatia, Seattle, Yellowstone, and Glacier National Park among others.

If you are curious about the internals of my site, it is written in PHP using a very basic MVC structure. The PHP code comes entirely from me, but everything else powering the site is open source. It is powered by a fairly standard LAMP setup on a VPS running Ubuntu.