How are your coding projects going?

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Hey!
The other week I fell ill with a bad cold which made me really really tired. I was too tired to go out or do anything else. So I was sitting in my chair wondering what the hell to do apart from playing Minecraft and I thought of some "light" PHP projects I could do (What a joke!) so I thought up a simple concept of a forum. It turns out this was a good idea. About 6 hours after establishing the project I had a simple concept up and going. This concept worked well... I wanted to do some more work on it. Now, a few weeks later it has really taken off progress wise as it is all looking nice and slick and its working flawlessly. Some day I might release it if its good enough.

Anything interesting going on with your projects?

If you make forum software that can actually scale reasonably well, and has good support for caching (or, at least, a really good plugin architecture) - let me know. I would be very interested in something like that.

Will do! Its in very very early stages at the moment. Its barely even Alpha.. But I might be thinking of implementing the features you mentioned. Anyway, if I do get around to something like that at some point, I'l let you know

Bear in mind, before you pour too much time into it, that this is a wheel that's been invented a few times before.

There will be an open source something out there that'll already have your market: working on it will bring you greater satisfaction and reward than breaking your own nails on the rock.

First of all - how would you proclaim to know what will bring *someone else* "greater satisfaction and reward". That's more than slightly presumptuous.

Based on my experience, there really isn't a forum solution that's even close to decent in terms of scalability. Especially nothing open-source. I pretty much hate every forum package that exists - and if someone made something I actually liked, I would absolutely use/contribute to it.

Most of the forum code bases are so old at this point that a fresh start without any misconceptions on architecture or technical limitations would be extremely valuable.

I wish I had time to develop what the previous poster is looking for. Maybe I will at the end of the year. I already have some ideas of how I would write it. I wouldn't use PHP, I see PHP as crusty and somewhat high overhead. I'd probably make it available both as a plugin for Apache and as a standalone web server. I'd write it in C++. I would cache as much of the entire backend db as possible (hopefully 100% of it) on the hard drive and subsequently system RAM on the web server. I would just query mysql for deltas. Millisecond response time FTW.