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Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

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Post by JabavuAdams »

Last night, I was browsing the Digital Mars D compiler source to see how they detect and convert files in all the various UTF encodings to UTF-8. This is for a C++ pre-processor that I'm writing in D.

I'm also trying to get a basic OGRE 3D app up and running on my MacBookPro. I want to use D + OGRE to build my personal editor / IDE. It has to be PC/Mac/Linux.

I'm slowly finishing an update to my iPhone app, iLightning http://www.shinyfish.com/ilightning. Right now I'm working on some animated transitions between the main view and the prefs screen.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

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Post by nathan82 »

For the last 6 months or so I've been working on a 'wikipedia for images' type site. I'm trying to fix all the UI deficiencies that bug me about other image sites. As a personal project with no deadline I've had a lot of fun premature-optimising the crap out of it! For example the thumbnails are in strips of 50 for a huge reduction in http requests. Here's the test set I've been using-

http://imagecorpus.com/marylin-monroe

My plan is to initially scrape a lot of hard-to-browse public domain image sets, for example the Library of Congress daguerreotype collection http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html. And then I'll solicit contributions from the public to bulk it out.

I was going to wait till I was ready to launch before posting here, but that could be a while... Any criticism/suggestions or offers to help are very welcome!

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

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Post by abyssknight »

Unfortunately, no code to show off but... I'm working on a site for my wife where she and her friends can post photos of themselves trying on the same outfit. I've been wanting to learn Ruby on Rails so I've been playing around with it the past couple weeks. Domain is bought, code sort of works but needs a lot of love (and javascript, ruby magic, a design) before it'll be ready to launch. Hopefully I'll get motivated and get something out there shortly.

To be honest, I've been more interested in Rails and Capistrano/Deprec than the project itself. Bought a 256mb slice at SliceHost and have been reloading the thing every week playing with configurations.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

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Post by bgnm2000 »

alexkearns wrote: post #63

I've been working on a couple of javascript projects. The big one is best described as iTunes for Flash games - a rich internet app for creating and managing a library of Flash games - http://www.webalon.com/gamemanager/ The second thing that I have been working on is a resizeable javascript image carousel featuring a variety of transitions - you can see it in action at: http://www.webalon.com I hope to open source t…

You've created some really awesome stuff!

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

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Post by icefox »

humbledrone wrote: post #38
staunch wrote: post #35

Meta comment: everyone is using github!

Git won me over when I found out that I could make all kinds of commits willy-nilly. I make a lot of small commits to my local repo throughout the day. At the end of the day I then take the time to go through them, merging related commits and removing stupid commits before I send my changes upstream. I've found that it's much easier to avoid breaking the build this way.

Another way to not break the build is to add a local git hook that compiles your project before allowing a commit. Assuming you compiled and tested your change already (you did right... :) the compile hook will take no time at all. Using this I have only commited broken builds once or twice when it built on my macbook, but not on Linux (case insensitive file system) Wrote up more details on hooks along with some examples here:

http://benjamin-meyer.blogspot.com/2008/10/git-hooks.html

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

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Post by potatolicious »

chrisb wrote: post #78

A .NET interpreter for embedded/constrained systems where MS.NET or Mono aren't suitable: http://www.dotnetanywhere.org/ It now implements most of the core .NET 2.0 spec, a usable subset of the base class library, and an implementation of a Graphics device suitable for embedded devices. Not the fastest of .NET runtimes, but its disk/memory footprint is surprisingly small, and it (mostly) works!

I will have to give this a shot :) I've been looking for good high level ways to program embedded boards (like the Beagleboard)... definitely going to give this a try.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

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Post by potatolicious »

maryrosecook wrote: post #82

A music recommendation engine: http://theperceptron.com (code: will be open sourced soon). A site for writing your autobiography in songs: http://playmary.com (code: http://github.com/maryrosecook/playmary/ )

Your domain name - are you using neural networks for your recommendations?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

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Post by phugoid »

cool-RR wrote: post #10

I'm actually looking for a new name for my project, so maybe someone here will have a good idea? It's a framework for writing, running and analyzing simulations. It could take any kind of simulation: Physics, game theory, epidemic spread, electronics, whatever. It's in Python. This is where it currently lives: http://github.com/cool-RR/physicsthing/tree/master (Keep in mind it's still a very young project) The readme…

Simitar! A cutting new technology.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have any code or projects of your own you would like to talk about instead?

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Post by phugoid »

A very basic embedded operating system for an ARM7-based microcontroller. I'm still in the early stages.

I have no illusions that I'm going to write anything better than the other RTOSs out there; it's just for the kicks of working on the bare metal. Sort of exhilarating to apply voltage to a microcontroller, and know that only _your_ instructions are running.

A number of EE/CS programs have a course where you do this over a semester - I'm afraid I'm going to take a while longer on my own!

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