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5/9/2006, Project: Killing Smilies My current hobby project works with sockets to establish a multi-way chat application. Though I use winsock on my machine, I've tried hard to include compatibility for linux builds and implement their socket library as well. After the basic chat application is complete I'll start transitioning it to an emote chat where users can perform actions such as laughing, hugging another user, etc. The ultimate plan is to make it a free form chat where users won't have to rely on an emoticons to convey their actions. Death to emoticons! More about the project 4/2/2006, Project: Self-Building Web Gallery So let's say that you have hundreds of images and you want to put them on the web but you don't want to sit there and catalogue each image name by hand as they're annoyingly alphanumeric, like IMG1023a.JPG. Well, that's where I was at a couple days ago. I decided to do something about it and ended up making a small project out of it. My image gallery works off pre-existing directory structure to construct a linked gallery. It forms a navigation menu off of node folders and extends itself to updates. That is, if you add a new image collection to your archives, it adds it to the menu. It's a lightweight solution to the common gallery problem. More about the project 3/20/2006, Project: A Man of Many Languages For the next month, or so, I plan to devote myself to improving on the more common languages: c++, java, php, and even (oh no!) vb. Topics I hope to get into include: Basic survivability in all of them! C++: OpenGl Network programming Javax Database interfaces We'll see how it goes. 2/6/2006, Project: Flash/XML Catalogue, Continued To make things a little easier for her, I wrote a short c++ i/o app that generates an xml entry for her to have an easier time adding items to the xml file. This was made to ensure that tags were appropriately opened and closed in an effort to avoid any kind of parse error. More about the project 2/2/2006, Project: Flash/XML Catalogue My girlfriend plays this game and her character is well known to have one of the largest item collections in the game world. She's thought about a few approaches on how best to display these items and I came up with a Flash based XML implementation that will show all of them dynamically. The menus update whenever the XML does and the sorting is pretty slick too. Overall, I think it came out as a pretty smooth interface to solve her problem. More about the project

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5/9/2006, Project: Killing Smilies

My current hobby project works with sockets to establish a multi-way chat application. Though I use winsock on my machine, I've tried hard to include compatibility for linux builds and implement their socket library as well. After the basic chat application is complete I'll start transitioning it to an emote chat where users can perform actions such as laughing, hugging another user, etc. The ultimate plan is to make it a free form chat where users won't have to rely on an emoticons to convey their actions. Death to emoticons!

More about the project

4/2/2006, Project: Self-Building Web Gallery

So let's say that you have hundreds of images and you want to put them on the web but you don't want to sit there and catalogue each image name by hand as they're annoyingly alphanumeric, like IMG1023a.JPG. Well, that's where I was at a couple days ago. I decided to do something about it and ended up making a small project out of it. My image gallery works off pre-existing directory structure to construct a linked gallery. It forms a navigation menu off of node folders and extends itself to updates. That is, if you add a new image collection to your archives, it adds it to the menu. It's a lightweight solution to the common gallery problem.

More about the project

3/20/2006, Project: A Man of Many Languages

For the next month, or so, I plan to devote myself to improving on the more common languages: c++, java, php, and even (oh no!) vb. Topics I hope to get into include:

Basic survivability in all of them!

C++: OpenGl

Network programming

Javax

Database interfaces

We'll see how it goes.

2/6/2006, Project: Flash/XML Catalogue, Continued

To make things a little easier for her, I wrote a short c++ i/o app that generates an xml entry for her to have an easier time adding items to the xml file. This was made to ensure that tags were appropriately opened and closed in an effort to avoid any kind of parse error.

More about the project

2/2/2006, Project: Flash/XML Catalogue

My girlfriend plays this game and her character is well known to have one of the largest item collections in the game world. She's thought about a few approaches on how best to display these items and I came up with a Flash based XML implementation that will show all of them dynamically. The menus update whenever the XML does and the sorting is pretty slick too. Overall, I think it came out as a pretty smooth interface to solve her problem.

More about the project