Bradley Meck

Bio

I'm a computer science major at St. Edwards University with aspirations to make a development system that is easier and less error prone than modern compilation and build systems.

I'm a programmer who does what most other programmers do. I play games on computers, I love solving problems, and I have an insatiable urge to kick my computer when it messes up. If you could ask me what I do for fun that would be hard to answer. I like cartoons for their simplicity, I like games for their sense of achievement, and I love to program enough to want to do it almost all the time. Like all people I must give my joy, in this case the of programming, a time to rest lest I become overwelmed in such a thing. So, when I'm not programming or playing games and the such I relax with books and food. I tend not to go to concerts or parties as I am an introvert but I do people watch from time to time.

Of all the computer problems out there two categories are my favorite: text manipulation/parsing and compilation. This has led to a facination with programming languages as by design instead of just use to me and a finding of an utter lack of good development tools to use for the average programmer.

Skills

• Java Programming : Swing, AWT, JUnit Testing,Semantics
• C++ Programming : OpenGL, SDL, OpenAL
• D Programming : Tango, OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, Mango
• Web Programming : PHP, AJAX, XHTML, CSS, Javascript
• Version Control Systems : SVN, GIT, Mercurial

Conferences

• CCSC 2008 Attendee; Corpus Christie, Text
• Tango Conference 2008 Attendee; Torun, Poland

Experience

• Google Summer of Code; WebKit Project
• Internship at Caseta Technologies
• Undergraduate Research