Ask HN: What are you working on today? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by pogos » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:30 PM UTC

Writing software that generates music.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by MHordecki » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:31 PM UTC

As far as my work is concerned, I'm doing quasi-issue-tracking that's tightly integrated with our IT platform. In Delphi, I shall add.

My side project is still in the conceptual phase, so I'll tell ypu this: I hope to add my entire town to OpenStreetMap by this summer. I've just started.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by Qz » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:33 PM UTC

city41 wrote: post #72

felideon wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with Silverlight? Just curious about your experience. I'm doing ASP.NET web forms at work and would much rather use Silverlight for a few things.

There's not that much "wrong" with Silverlight. But I honestly can't find much "right" with it either. It just feels like Microsoft forked off and created this new platform that at the end of the day doesn't offer much benefit over HTML/JS/CSS. Granted, MS started Silverlight well before HTML5 started coming into form. Absolutely, C# is far more pleasant than JS and XAML is a nice alternative to HTML+CSS. All in all…

I like C# but XAML drives me nuts. Getting binding to work is like pulling teeth. I've taken to prototyping stuff in Flex because MXML binding is ridiculously simpler, although there's a bunch of C# stuff I'd love to get back...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by dhimes » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:34 PM UTC

On vacation, during which time I usually refactor my timetables/strategies for the upcoming year (which I usually have to re-do after summer ends and I get serious again).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by bmj » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:38 PM UTC

city41 wrote: post #72

felideon wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with Silverlight? Just curious about your experience. I'm doing ASP.NET web forms at work and would much rather use Silverlight for a few things.

There's not that much "wrong" with Silverlight. But I honestly can't find much "right" with it either. It just feels like Microsoft forked off and created this new platform that at the end of the day doesn't offer much benefit over HTML/JS/CSS. Granted, MS started Silverlight well before HTML5 started coming into form. Absolutely, C# is far more pleasant than JS and XAML is a nice alternative to HTML+CSS. All in all…

I'm doing a Silverlight app as well (project management/code editor tool--does it sound like a solved problem? Why, yes, it is!). I concur with much that has been written, but here's a few other comments...

If you are working with RIA/WCF Services and the Entity Framework, if your app isn't straight up CRUD, data access gets a bit kludgey really quickly. The asynchronous calls from the client don't help.

I also agree with another comment that points out that there is little that Silverlight can do that a good JS-driven UI can't. We grudgingly moved to Silverlight because it allowed some degree of interoperability with our main product (which runs on PDAs and tablet PCs--data collection devices)--the web app will allow users to build UI flows for the devices, and thus we can use the controls already defined for the devices in the Silverlight app. I suppose that's one on of the selling points of XAML, but I haven't done enough work on the UI to make an informed decision about it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by Concours » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:38 PM UTC

working on the curation of datas on http://www.gmbhnews.com

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by misterbwong » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:41 PM UTC

Work: Finished some batch jobs and starting a new semi-interesting web project. It'll be a welcome change from the boring admin/infrastructure stuff I've been doing :)

Home: Android notes tutorial. Also fun :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by paraschopra » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:41 PM UTC

Answering support mails, thinking how to scale app to at least 1000 simultaneous connections, preparing presentation to brief Forrester, contacted some more bloggers, watched Mixergy interview on how to sell to Fortune 500 companies, finalizing on new feature: test result segmentation.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by mumrah » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:41 PM UTC

Importing all of the actors/roles from IMDb into mongoDB for a little proof of concept. 12m documents and counting!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by tbeseda » Fri, Jul 09, 2010, 4:42 PM UTC

alx wrote: post #59

Just received a Sugru.com kit yesterday, and I've been prototyping a mirror to make photos in front of my macbook: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alx/tags/sugru 30min of fun, rest of the day for usual work :)

Cool. I did something similar a few years ago with one mirror: http://www.instructables.com/id/Per-i-Sight:-MacBook-iSight-... Cool application of Sugru.