Peter Hosey's résumé

Profile

Programmer for Mac OS X and other UNIX-like environments, with 2+½ years' experience in open-source. Excellent at working cooperatively with other people. Fluent in English, C, Objective-C, and Python.

Skills

Application programming interfaces

Programming languages

• C (ISO 9899:1999)
• Objective-C
• Python
• Adobe PostScript

Document/graphics languages

• Adobe PostScript
• XHTML 1.0–1.1
• HTML
• CSS 1 and 2

Other

• Knowledge of Unicode (an international text encoding)
• Strong UI sensibilities, with keen sense of what works and what doesn't, and an ability to anticipate the user's reactions

Previous experience

• 2003-12 to present

  Developer on Adium, open-source multi-protocol instant-messenger client for Mac OS X

  • Helped rewrite contact list drawing using Quartz, achieving a 2–3× (estimated) speed increase
  • Wrote portions of AIUtilites framework, which provides some of Adium's low-level non-network functionality
  • Redesigned AIHTMLDecoder class (converter between HTML and Cocoa styled text) and AIKeychain class (wrapper for Mac OS X's Keychain)
  • Added strict-XHTML encoder to AIHTMLDecoder class, in addition to existing loose-HTML encoder
  • Wrote AIWiredData and AIWiredString for keeping memory from being paged out to disk (important for keeping passwords secure)
  • Wrote debugging plug-ins used to test crashes

• 2004-06 (approx.) to present

  Developer on Growl, open-source user-notification system (displays a passive message when an application-defined event occurs)

  • Designed Growl's Carbon API, which Skype later adapted for their VoIP client
  • Wrote Carbon demonstration app, Beep-Carbon
  • Made numerous fixes and improvements to Growl itself, the Growl framework, and GrowlTunes (adapter application for iTunes)

• 2006-08-21 to present

  Developer on IconFamily, wrapper for Mac OS X Icon Services API (part of Carbon)

  • Modernized it, using Carbon's FSRef API in place of older FSSpec API (as a patch, submitted 2005-07-19, before becoming an actual developer on the project)
  • Added support to IconFamily for retrieval of 256-px and 48-px icons

• Has written numerous Mac OS X applications:

  • BZSoundboard: sound file player using a two-dimensional array of buttons
  • clipboard: command-line utility to get data from and put data on Mac OS X's Clipboard
  • CPU Usage: graphical indicator of current processor load(s)
  • extractstrings: command-line utility to extract literal strings from C and Objective-C source code
  • GiantColorSwatch: a window showing a color selected by the user
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Glypha IV: game; ported to Mac OS X from Apple sample source code (originally written for Mac OS)
  • iconfor: command-line utility to copy the icon of a file to an image file, using Icon Services API (part of Carbon)
  • IconGrabber: uses Icon Services to look up icons that are registered with the system; can save these icons as TIFF files
  • Image Shadow Adder: utility to add drop-shadows to images (especially screenshots) in the same manner that Mac OS X did for its windows (prior to 10.5)
  • ISO 8601 parser and unparser: code for Cocoa-based programs to translate between NSCalendarDate objects and ISO 8601-formatted date and/or time strings
  • Keynote Bingo: self-randomizing bingo card, customized to use possible/fanciful/humorous strings in place of numbers, to be played by listening to Steve Jobs' keynote at the Worldwide Developers' Conference
  • starburst: command-line utility to generate a starburst image in PDF format
  • Strings Menu: adds a menu to the user's menu bar for quick recall of saved text strings
  • Web2PDF: uses Mac OS X's WebKit API to generate a single-page PDF image of a webpage

• Wrote several programming/computer-related documents:

  • Everything you need to know pointers in C
  • A vi cheatsheet for Dvorak and QWERTY, for grayscale and color displays (inspired by another one)
  • Hello World, cut four ways: a demonstration of good and bad implementations of Hello World

Education

• Home-schooled
• Self-taught

2006-09-08