Sweerdenburg

Contact Information

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

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 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 the accessibility of the web in a device-independent context.

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:

Primary Project (NFB)

My primary project will be to collaborate with Kevin Lasconia and the community at the National Film Board to create a video player in HTML5 and JavaScript. This project will be to work alongside their current Flash-based player, which will serve as a fallback in a non-compliant browser. Complete project details can be found on our project page or at the NFB's 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	NFB	Prototype fallback to Flash if <video/> tag is not supported. [1]
October 3, 2010	NFB	Hello World on Canvas[2], Experiments with OOP JavaScript and Timing [3]
	-	Built Mozilla Firefox from source[4]
October 10, 2010	NFB	Git/Github repo setup[5], JS OOP/serialization/cookies/DOM Manipulation[6], Sequential Video playing [7]
	C3DL	PHP process control [8]

Resources

Mozilla

Videojs, HTML5 Open Video Player

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

C3DL

CDOT Wiki β