Graduate Student
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Department of Computer Science
Boston, MA 02125-3393, USA
Email : hvolckm at cs dot umb dot edu
Software Projects
For each project, hit the title to check out the project or its website.
Visit Me
Software Engineering, graduate edition, was spent creating an awesome Facebook application for Kayak.com. Over the course of a couple of months we learned all about geolocation, rss feeds and travel search.
As well as putting it all together. Needless to say, everyone I know loves it.
RADAR
This project started off as a very crude human resource management application used by a non-related organization. It was adapted by a now-unknown
programmer to keep track of students behavioral records as well as their detention and suspension record. In spring 2008 for CS410 I, together with my team,
was assigned the task of cleaning it up, overhauling the clumsy user interface and making everything bigger and better for the folks at CCSC.
As of fall 2009, they are still using the software we worked on, which was further enhanced by the following year's CS410 class!
GreedyEngine
GreedyEngine is an OpenGL based 3D engine I wrote with a friend to learn OpenGL.
It doesn't work as a serious platform, and I ought to rewrite the thing at some point.
However, some things learned from the project are a HDR implementation with exposure and managing multiple APIs as well as a non-trivial amount of code.
Print 'em All!
I wrote this little program because we were told to print out many different files with code in them for compilers homework. At the time I could not find any program that did it for free,
so I wrote the very first working version of Print 'em All! in under 30 minutes using .NET. It only prints text, but if you need something like that, feel free to grab it, more than 500 people have!
Programming practices
I follow a relaxed interpretation of the PHPBB coding guidelines.
Always try to optimize! Faster code means less power consumption and more satisfied customers!
Function pointers are awesome!
Other interests
Ask me in person.
Favorite (computer related) books
C++: Wiley's Teach Yourself C++
Java: Big Java
Graphics: GPU Gems 3
Fiction: Ender's Game
