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22 Jun 2012, 8:28 pm

So what are your latest projects? Doesn't have to be a programming project. Just tech related.

I am currently working on a synchronous chat with a UI. So far it has a scrollable text area that you can type in. A send button, a few callbacks for exiting and the button. I have a ton to add. The biggest part is going to be adding the socket to send the data from one process to another. I might have to rewrite the whole client or at least 3/4ths of it.

anyone have any non-related programming projects that they are doing?

How about anyone installing Arch, slack, or gentoo for the first time?

Anyone building an Arduino project or have built one?



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22 Jun 2012, 9:25 pm

No, but I can give you a tip, if your end product is good that will likely mean you rewrote the entire thing 20 times.

You know how many complete Quake engines John Carmack wrote before the final one that went into the 1996 game? I think it was 21. Some of them even used voxels and other weird stuff that didn't pan out at the time.



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22 Jun 2012, 9:40 pm

MyFutureSelfnMe wrote:
No, but I can give you a tip, if your end product is good that will likely mean you rewrote the entire thing 20 times.

You know how many complete Quake engines John Carmack wrote before the final one that went into the 1996 game? I think it was 21. Some of them even used voxels and other weird stuff that didn't pan out at the time.


My end product will not be that good. just a intermediate level project. More so novice I think. Being that GUI programming and sockets on Linux arent that hard. Also, it is a synchronous chat and there are tons of em out there! They are asynchronous though. Integrated with some type of select/poll function. which I would say is definitely a hard function/skill to master! So my project is nothing special. Just something to keep the brains craving for a puzzle at bay is all.

So you currently have no projects at the moment? No web stuff?

I have no idea what a voxel is either lol I was never a big fan of Quake. Let alone computer games period. I think when Quake came out I was playing N64. Zelda, excite bike, nightmare creatures, smash brothers, etc.



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23 Jun 2012, 5:13 am

MyFutureSelfnMe wrote:
You know how many complete Quake engines John Carmack wrote before the final one that went into the 1996 game? I think it was 21.

Wow. Were they complete rewrites from scratch, or did he recycle things?



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23 Jun 2012, 11:13 am

I'm sure he recycled some code. I believe they were all largely rewrites. He is a very focused and fast programmer.

I believe he's revisited the voxel thing for Id Tech 6 and is having more success.



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23 Jun 2012, 11:19 am

My most recent project was to take a xperia play cell phone and make a wrist holder and optics redirector that makes the light and camera focus in front of your fist. I also made
it always landscape and speaker.... no programming just apps. Now I have a pipboy.



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23 Jun 2012, 11:59 am

A few days ago I got Ubuntu, so Ive spent the last few days messing around with the settings and css and stuff, seeing if I can improve anything with it, particulalry the user interface. Most of it looked like crap though, so I went back to the default coloring and everything, except a few changes.



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23 Jun 2012, 12:45 pm

brickmack wrote:
A few days ago I got Ubuntu, so Ive spent the last few days messing around with the settings and css and stuff, seeing if I can improve anything with it, particulalry the user interface. Most of it looked like crap though, so I went back to the default coloring and everything, except a few changes.


Try the LXDE desktop instead of the ugly mess that Unity is.


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23 Jun 2012, 9:52 pm

I don't believe there is any really good GUI for Linux.



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25 Jun 2012, 2:02 am

I am currently adding a login system/database to the chat. I have 250 lines of code so far and I expect 500 lines or more. Also, I might look into encryption for the passwords. Just a thought. Not sure which type of encryption I should use though. Gotta love Google!

It relies heavily on loops and the flow control is heavily nested. It concerns me. I might have to rewrite everything once I have the whole system working.



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25 Jun 2012, 9:14 am

i finally got my arduino to read the ascii files im using to store the cnc program and extrapolate all the stepcounts correctly,

i did find several errors in my python parser (it creates an ascii file with the instructions in stepcounts with flags to denote where to wait and what to wait for, ie line 1 sets the workangle to 25 the height to 200mm and the rotational index to 96, the next line then denotes the feed method, where to feed to and the sync order (wait for high on limit switch))

still a lot of work to do before im at the point where i can physically build the whole mechanism, for now my steppers, their drivers and my arduino is everything needed to test the software.


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25 Jun 2012, 9:39 pm

My latest project is compiling Android 4 from source and getting it to run on my Captivate. Should be completed by tomorrow.


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26 Jun 2012, 12:35 am

My latest project is a small video game for windows I started to make today. But the latest project I put significant work on it is a COLLADA editor in Java with jogl. But it is not finished yet.



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26 Jun 2012, 12:57 am

RaceDrv709 wrote:
My latest project is compiling Android 4 from source and getting it to run on my Captivate. Should be completed by tomorrow.

I guess your compiling ICS for fun? If not, you do know AOKP and CM9 have roms for the captivate.



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06 Jul 2012, 8:12 pm

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15 Jul 2012, 3:48 pm

I am currently working on a multiplatform game. I currently have 5000 lines of code or thereabout. I think I'm going to rewrtie a lot of it though. I have learned a lot more since I starte programming. And since I haven't worked on it for some time, I have forgot how I do some of the things. But now that I have some time of, I intend to get a bit further on it.