I am a student at Bell High School in Ottawa, Canada interested in programming, electronics and science.

About Me

• I am currently working on an open source eye Tracker.
• I develop iPad apps for psychological research at iPad Experiments
• I use Ruby to write programming contests like the Google Code Jam.
• I am a member of the Ottawa Group of Ruby Enthusiasts and occassionally give lightning talks there.
• I program random things and put them on Github
• I develop Open Turing, an open source fork of the Turing language.

Projects

A selection of projects I have worked on:

Improsent

A web app that allows you to improvise presentation slides while you present.

The New Open Turing Editor

A new editor for Open Turing written in Qt.

DoubleVision

A ruby gem that that manipulates PNG files to create magic thumbnails.

SquareGame

A simple, addictive cocos2d iPhone game.

UTTT

A java applet for 9-board tic-tac-toe with a simple A.I.

eyeLike

A work-in-progress eye tracker that requires only a normal webcam.

Blog

• 17 May 2013 » The Best Search Engine For Programmers
• 01 May 2013 » Too Many Projects, Not Enough pro
• 10 Apr 2013 » The Best Programming Game
• 29 Mar 2013 » Contributing to Eclipse
• 06 Feb 2013 » Ottawa Ruby Lightning Talks
• 24 Jan 2013 » Hacking English Class
• 19 Nov 2012 » Using Slate: A Hacker's Window Manager for Macs
• 14 Nov 2012 » Magic PNG Thumbnails
• 04 Nov 2012 » Simple, accurate eye center tracking in OpenCV

Stuff I’ve Done

This is a list of the things I have worked on and am currently working on. It is in kind of chronological order. I will try and write down all the things I have worked on. Unfortunately I don’t remember many of the things I worked on in years gone by. I am also more productive nowadays so the list will look a little top-heavy.

2012

• Gave a lightning talk at Ottawa Ruby about scripting.
• Developed new website based on Jekyll and Github Pages.
• Started work on the eyeLike eye tracker.
• Wrote the Improsent presentation tool.
• Went to the Shad Valley summer program at Waterloo University.
• Worked on the new editor for Open Turing
• Wrote a web service that makes cool word gardens: http://treeeees.herokuapp.com
• Wrote a ruby gem that creates magic PNG images called doubleVision
• Participated in the 2012 ECOO Programming contest finals
• Released the PathSpan iPad app.
• Wrote a compiler for Turing using the LLVM framework. Currently on hold while the editor is being finished.
• Wrote a new editor for Open Turing in Qt
• Wrote a Sublime Text plugin that inserts snippets from Rosetta Code

2011

• Created an open source fork of Turing for Windows with many improvements.
• Wrote a second iPad app for psychological research. Based on the number line task.
• Competed in the DWITE programming contest.
• Wrote a question answering machine for the programming club at Bell.
• Wrote a tron AI
• Ported SquareGame to use data URLs to render to a favicon.
• Made a AJAX app that uses html5 drag and drop and the ideone API to run programs dropped on it.
• Put a bunch of my code on github.
• Made an iPhone game. A port of Kiran Rao’s square game to IOS.
• Porting the linux program to interface with my watch (Timex DataLink) to the mac.
• Object tracking using the webcam in haxe
• Ruby data analysis framework for use in programming contests.
• Turing browser for programming class assignement.
• Google Code Jam 2011 Qualification Round.
• Basic Bell HS Iphone web app.
• WebGL 3d game demo.
• 3D engine in turing for programming class.
• Bell HS map
• Base for a neural network based AI for ultimate tic-tac-toe
• Psychological research iPad app for a professor at Carleton University
• Partial data-analysis program for my EEG

2010

• iPhone app for my xml data storage system.
• Ruby framework for my xml data storage system.
• Ultimate tic-tac-toe java applet.
• My science fair project on building an EEG. Won gold medal and a trip to the national science fair. http://tristan.hume.ca/distribute/Brainwaves%20(Tristan%20Hume).pdf
• Ajax and php web app for my xml data storage system.

2009

• Science fair project on Galvanic Skin Response. Won gold medal in regional science fair.
• Random platformer. Flash platformer with generated levels.
• Redesign of tristan.hume.ca

2009

• Bob escape platformer.
• Taught course on creating web pages to kids at my school.

ERROR: My memory does not go back further than 2009.