Billy Biggs vektor@dumbterm.net PGP key CV [pdf] [ps] [text]

http://www.billybiggs.com/ http://www.scanline.ca/ http://www.ss7.ca/ http://www.vektor.ca/

About me

I am currently employed by YouTube.

I am interested in computer graphics and digital video. I have a small website where I post notes and articles on topics in graphics, colour and video called scanline.ca.

I listen to and compose electronic music, and have a gear collection that is pretty respectable. Some of my musical exploits are detailed at vektor.ca/audio/.

I am interested in telephony, both traditional and VoIP. I have a website called ss7.ca with my notes and programs relating to telephony.

I used to write more about projects I worked on, I had a blog about Eclipse and a blog about Linux desktop work. I enjoy taking photos, some of which I posted online at vektor.ca. Mostly photos I take now just end up on Facebook or Google+.

Software

I enjoy writing software. Here are some of my projects.

• tvtime is my realtime deinterlacer project.
• animate is a nifty line animation tool that can export flash animations.
• wininfo is a very useful X application debugging tool.
• exrtools is a collection of utilities for manipulating high dynamic range images in OpenEXR format.
• magnify is simple yet powerful screen magnifier.
• mp3player is the simple yet effective MP3 playing system I use at home.
• movietime was my DVD player which I have not had time to maintain. It was a great learning experience.
• kphone was my SIP phone. It is currently maintained by some people at Wirlab network research center, see wirlab kphone.
• ttrk is my MIDI sequencer with a tracker-like interface. It's quite cool.
• reetpvr is my video recorder and compressor application. While it does 'work for me' it is mostly unfinished. I created a sourceforge project to store the code and run the CVS.
• thud was a drum machine written with some friends in second year. It was my first officially "released" Linux application, and made it at least into Mandrake Linux.
• krad is my tone dialer, an excuse to release a KDE app called 'krad'.

I have also contributed to a variety of open source projects. Here are some of them:

• libdvdread is a library for parsing data from DVD-Video discs.
• Cairo is a 2D graphics library.