Bernard van Gastel

Who am I?

I am Bernard van Gastel, a computer science student at the NIII, living in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. I like UNIX and Apples, I don't like Microsoft (but I like Microsoft Research). My study intrests are in the theoretical part, quality of software and the software construction part of Computer Science. In my off time I like boardgames (Set, BANG!), watching movies (Amelie, Das Leben der Anderen, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Moulin Rouge, La Vita e bella) and series (Heroes), ballroom dancing at my student dance association and coding at my photo site (relaxing!). I should sport more often, and I like running and I'm going to learn to snowboard (my profile at wintersporters.nl).

I like to travel with my backpack, so below is a map of the countries I have visited. I have quite some traveling to do :). I want to go to South America next, but I don't know when. In the mean time I am following a Spanish course.

Contacting me is quite simple: bvgastel at bitpowder.com (replace at with @).

Projects

Current Projects

• PIToolkit, a Platform Independent Objective-C Toolkit
• Photo Site

Past Projects

• Starfleet Database, my old 1998 Star Trek fansite, some things could be broken.

Study

Update: I am finished, I have my Master title. My Master's thesis is available online

Currently I'm studying Computer Science at the NIII (University of Nijmegen Computer Science Institute). I'm in my Master part. My Bachelor thesis was about Readers/Writers (Thesis in PDF). Because I found a bug in Trolltech's Qt Readers/Writers me and some profs of mine wrote a paper about it, which was presented at FMICS 2008. The paper received the FMICS2008 Best Paper Award recognizing it as the 'Best Software Science Paper'. (Paper in PDF). My intrests are in the theoretical part, quality of software and the software construction part of Computer Science. Maybe I will put some of my texts I wrote for my study online at the download part.

Downloads

Some Code

Small CLI utility programs

Some work to assist me in following my courses and some other utillties, mostly the code is a mix between Dutch and English, ordered by catogory

• Math programs
  • powMod (C; power and power with modulo calculations)
  • primElem (C; find primitive elements in a body)
• Computer Science programs
  • FFT (C; Fast Fourier Transformation, needs powMod)
  • Bitonic (C; Demo program to demostrate Batcher's Bitonic Sort Algorithm)
• Web programs
  • unescapeString (C; to convert escaped URL's to correct texts)

OpenGL programs

• Axis (C), draw's simple functions and can handle zoom of x and y as with animation

Some programs

OpenGL Solar system

One of my university assignments. All sizes, distances, etc are for real except for the size of the planets, they are 1000x times larger (otherwise you would not see anything). Download the Windows version (glut32.dll is needed, install in C:\Windows\System or place in the same directory as the executable). If you want the source code or a binary for Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X or FreeBSD, you can drop me a mail.

OpenGL Drawing Program

Another university assignment. Drawing program, with alpha/transparency. Draws circles, rectangles and lines. Unlimited undo/redo. No open/save function. Download the Windows version (glut32.dll is needed, install in C:\Windows\System or place in the same directory as the executable). If you want the source code or a binary for Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X or FreeBSD, you can drop me a mail.

Some fun stuff

• Proof of `Girls are Evil' (JPEG)
• General Motors answers Microsoft (JPEG) (in Dutch)
• Letter to TGM about `Intel Inside' (PDF) (in Dutch), a letter to a friend of mine about his doorbel

Some Links

Computer Science Links

• Apple, my favorite hardware and operating system maker (Cocoa Objective-C Documentation)
• OSNews
• /.
• FreeBSD, my favorite x86 operating system
• PostgreSQL, free open-source database
• Apache, open-source web server
• W3C, World Wide Web standards, including, HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, etc
• WindowMaker, my favorite X11 Window Manager

Fun Links

• Heroes Air Dates
• Grey's Anatomy Air Dates

Standards used on this page

I love standards, so these standards are used: