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Re: Ask HN: Plans for side projects in 2014?

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Post by conorgil145 »

Not sure if I will have time to get back to it, but I plan to create a set of tools for working with Schematron [1]. I worked with it quite a bit at my last job (and actually enjoyed it), but it is a niche thing and I found it difficult to get started/productive. I plan to create a set of updated (Schematron is old) and interactive web-based tutorials and also create a command line tool to help develop, test, and maintain large Schematron rulesets. I define large as being in the 100s of rules per spec and having several specs which interact. I don't know too many groups which work with Schematron at that scale, but I have some lessons learned in terms of organization and maintainability which I'd like to share.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schematron

Re: Ask HN: Plans for side projects in 2014?

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Post by conorgil145 »

alasdair_ wrote: post #23

http://www.mtgprice.com - automated price guide for Magic: the Gathering cards.

I played a LOT of MTG years back and even bought several boxes to sell off individual cards in the hopes of making a profit. This site would have been insanely useful at the time. I lived on ebay and checked those prices against other individual sites for prices differences to get the best deal when building my decks.

I only glanced at the site, but it looks well put together. I am thinking about getting back in MTG, so I'll check this out if I start building decks again and buying/selling cards.

Re: Ask HN: Plans for side projects in 2014?

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Post by Larrikin »

zem wrote: post #25

i'd like to start a blog that tries to recapture the spirit of the old "acorn user" magazine [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_User ], focused squarely on the hobbyist programmer, but not shying away from accessible write-ups of complex topics. a sampling of articles i remember off the top of my head: 1. pacman style game developed from scratch, with a discussion of sprite animation and techniques to make a monste…

Is this still just a thought or have you already started on it. I'd love to read something like this. Where will it be when you put it out?

Re: Ask HN: Plans for side projects in 2014?

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Post by zem »

Larrikin wrote: post #34
zem wrote: post #25

i'd like to start a blog that tries to recapture the spirit of the old "acorn user" magazine [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_User ], focused squarely on the hobbyist programmer, but not shying away from accessible write-ups of complex topics. a sampling of articles i remember off the top of my head: 1. pacman style game developed from scratch, with a discussion of sprite animation and techniques to make a monste…

Is this still just a thought or have you already started on it. I'd love to read something like this. Where will it be when you put it out?

still just a thought, but one i've been turning around in my head for months now. i'm hoping the new year will give me the psychological motivation boost to actually start writing it.

i'll add a link from my website (http://zem.novylen.net) when it's up.

Re: Ask HN: Plans for side projects in 2014?

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Post by atroyn »

alasdair_ wrote: post #23

http://www.mtgprice.com - automated price guide for Magic: the Gathering cards.

I guess I don't have to build this myself anymore! Great UX by the way, pretty impressed. Are you going to expose an API?

e: It looks like the answer to my question is 'yes'. I would like to note that your gains/loses pages for legacy/vintage/all are very noisy due to low trade volume. I suggest putting in some filters.

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