User:Sweerdenburg

Contact Information

Name	Steven Weerdenburg
Email	sweerdenburg [AT] learn [DOT] senecac [DOT] on [DOT] ca
IRC	stevenaw
Blog	Blog
Github	Github

About Me

Steven Weerdenburg is a 7th semester student in Seneca's Bachelor of Software Development program. He comes to Seneca with a 3-year advanced diploma from Lambton College in Web Application Development, where he worked primarily with PHP, .NET and System i technologies. Upon attending Seneca, his focus shifted towards .NET, PHP and C/C++. In his spare time he enjoys playing chess and working on personal projects.

Technical Skills

• C/C++
• C#
• ASP.NET
• Java
• PHP
• JavaScript
• VB.NET
• RPG IV
• SQL
• XHTML/CSS

Contributions

BTH740 - Human Factors in Computing

Presently drafting a research essay on accessibility titled WCAG on the Standardized Web. Also developing a proof-of-concept audio recognition JavaScript widget

DPS901 - Introduction to Game Programming

Presently working on a team of five to create a Windows-based game using DirectX 9 through the fwk4gps framework created by Chris Szalwinski.

DPS909 - Topics in Open Source Development

Chrome Experiments (FF4)

For the first short bit, the class worked to identify any bugs in Firefox through use of the Chrome Experiments. They were split them up so that each student was responsible for 10 of them (myself with experiments 71-80. The offending experiments (aka test cases) were then collated and subjected to a second round of testing and finally filing. The complete list of class findings can be seen here.

Bugs Filed:

• Liquid Particles perf bug (dupe)
• Video->ASCII Conversion perf bug
• Animated Harmonograph perf bug

Primary Project (BBB)

My primary project will be to collaborate with Kevin Lasconia to create a video player in HTML5 and JavaScript. This project will be to work alongside current Flash-based players, which will serve as a fallback in a non-compliant browser. Complete project details can be found on our project page or at the developer spec.

Secondary Project (C3DL)

As browsers are incorporating hardware acceleration as standard, WebGL is on the horizon as a web technology. The C3DL JavaScript library has been in development to make it easier for web applications to use WebGL. They are presently working to refactor the existing code and incorporate a build system as well as automated testing environment. I will contribute to this project in addition to my primary project above.

Weekly Progress

Week of	Project	Accomplished
September 26, 2010	BBB	Prototype fallback to Flash if <video/> tag is not supported. [1]
October 3, 2010	BBB	Hello World on Canvas[2], Experiments with OOP JavaScript and Timing [3]
	-	Built Mozilla Firefox from source[4]
October 10, 2010	BBB	Git/Github repo setup[5], JS OOP/serialization/cookies/DOM Manipulation[6], Sequential Video playing [7]
	C3DL	PHP process control [8]
October 17, 2010	BBB	Library creation and Merging of Prototypes, 0.1 Release [9]
	C3DL	PHP Process Control Implementation and Permission Setup [10]
October 25, 2010	BBB	Library optimizations and refactoring to minimize interface. Research into TTXT parsing.
November 1, 2010	-	Research Paper planning and drafting
	BBB/Video.js	TTXT Subtitles [11]
November 8, 2010	-	Video Mashup[12], Visualization of Life's Things and Negative Pong
	BBB	Library Refactoring [13], Test Framework[14]
November 15, 2010	BBB	Remote Querying[15]
November 22, 2010	BBB	Refactor, Remote Updating and Subtitles On/Off[16]
	Video.js	Subtitle Updating bugfix[17]

Resources

Git

• 20 Everyday GIT Commands
• Git Cheat Sheet
• Pro Git E-Book
• Vim Cheat Sheet

Mozilla

• Mozilla Pastebin
• Firefox Crash Stats
• Bugzilla

Videojs, HTML5 Open Video Player

• A collated and shared list of resources can be found at HTML5_Open_Video_Player/Resources

C3DL

• Project URI
• GitHub Repo

OO JavaScript

• Objects as Associative Arrays
• Object enumeration
• JSON-style syntax
• JSON on Wikipedia