what are you working on???

[kmj]

Since the forum is dead, I figured I post a question, to see what you people are up in the field of programming/cs these days.

I am doing the following:

1) starting to kinda work on a python cgi script to parse CCAE's log files.

2) working on my Distributed Artificial Intelligence Project, which is a distributed attempt to solve the Traveling Salesperson Problem. Doin' that in python, too.

3) Playing with OpenGL for my Computer Graphics class

4) Reading some papers on Cacheing for texture mapping in Computer Graphics, because I have to write a ten page paper on it. I picked a rather boring subject, I'm afraid.

5) Doing various windows GUI stuff with C++/MFC for work; also working on a distributed OCR'ing project using RPC.

I guess that's it. I also have another project at work with java and C++, but that's on the proverbial "back burner".

So what are you guys up to?

[YaRness]

making database junk with vb.

i accomplished something fun (</sarcasm> ) this morning: i created enough crap to overwhelm VB's garbage collection routines. now i have to make sure to handle errors correctly so when Something Bad Happens so the evil form still runs through the unload process which cleans up all the controls i allocate during runtime. and i can't arbitrarily stop the program when it's just running through the interpreter in the IDE cuz it skips the unload event as well.

however all the crazy **** i made does look really neat! (basically, if you've ever messed with ms access, i made what looks like a subform window with continous forms. i dunno how else to describe it)

[Strogian]

The forum is dead?

[Danger Fan]

I've been doing some ASM for a class, as well as C for that same class and another class. I'm also designing a data base for one of my classes.

[jkm]

currently i'm working on a couple things...

1) cryptographic texteditor... think ordoemacs, if you've read cryptonomicon.

2) gtk front end to $terminal and ssh, probably will embed a terminal in there instead. think the official windows ssh.

[ 28 January 2002: Message edited by: jkm ]

[kmj]

Originally posted by Strogian:
<STRONG>The forum is dead?</STRONG>

Not dead like broken, but I think I was the only one who posted anything between 9:30 this morning and 2:30 (when I posted this topic)

[bwkaz]

1) Doing some odd LISP stuff for one class
2) Doing some C++ threading stuff for another (we have to use this college-written threading library, which wouldn't be bad, except that the "thread visualizer" part of it segfaults after I hit go. And the next time you run the program, it neglects to pause the program until you can get in there to pop some informational windows up. :rolleyes: Oh well, at least it's Solaris, and they do have a Linux version. I would just try to fix their program, however, there's no source, it comes binary-only. BASTARDS!)
3) Looking at Qt 3 Free Edition for my team software project class, I'd like to use it for the GUI.
4) Reading stupid stuff for another class. Lots of stupid stuff, because I was dumb and put it off, and class is tomorrow.

[Stuka]

Writing an implementation of a set (semi-mathematical) on top of a list implementation that lacks all sorts of rudimentary features (provided by the prof, no less), trying to grok sockets, as I have a now hyper-critical bit of programming to do using Portable Universal C (bytecode translated C), finishing documenation for my Java project (work)....oh, and acting as technical lead for a Web project - I'll have to design a database and write PHP/Perl code for that later.

[Strike]

School stuff:

1) Stupid job administration database and the web-based frontend (in PHP)
2) Neural network stuff for voice recognition/noise cancellation (MATLAB)
3) lots of reading for other classes (those two things above are the only CS/ENGR courses I have this semester)

Other stuff:
not much, school takes up almost all my time. But, I am sorta working on reinstrumenting the moobot into a totally modular beast with just three basic cores to it - connection proto core, chat proto core, and a module core. Other than that, I am just dabbling here in there in little Python projects.

[Whipping Boy]

1) a newsreader in C--neither tin nor knode have quite the configurability, display, or posting options I need.

2) a stock-market simulation, for which I get 75% of the profits from ads (won't be very much, but money is money is good)

[inkedmn]

i'm just trying to learn python as well as i can, doing little lame-o scripts...

my biggest project now is my CL address book script.

:D

[Dru Lee Parsec]

Building a set of Enterprise Java Beans to interface between an OFX (Open Financial Exchange) server and our bank's host computer. The goal is to

1. Take an outside vendor's services (which are costing us transaction fees and monthly sur-charges) inside the bank so we control and maintain the service ourselves (and save ourselves some serious $$$ )

2. Start to build a set backend database services that can be more easily distributed across multiple computers. Eventually we'll put all our bill payment services on one mainframe and our statement request services on another and so on.

Big iron, distributed code, serious security. It's kind of cool. :cool:

In my non-coding life I've been playing in my first chess tournament. So far:
round 1: Too sick to show up. 1/2 point bye
round 2: lost to a 1500 0 points
round 3: draw to a 1550 1/2 point
round 4: stupid blunder and lost to a 1650 0 points
round 5: is this wednesday (2 days from now) and I'm playing another 1500. I really need a win.

At the end of round 2 I was actually doing better by not showing up than by playing. ;)

[lazy_cod3R]

I have been sitting back for a little because I jave just finished my CS degree :)

Im going to start work soon so i may just do some c++ stuff just to get warm again after bludging so hard and having a nice holiday in bali :).

What i wanna do is write some sort of testing harness for some of my friends still in second year uni so they can test their code a little better (hopefully) before they submit it for automarking, gives me a little bit of practice and i can also give my friends a little helping hand.

Other then that i have just been working on a little webpage with just some of the usual holiday pics and general self info :) I also wrote my own guestbook for the webpage in perl.

Basically thats all i have done or will be doing in the next few weeks, i may want to learn some python because of the big word its getting around here, looks like everyone is using it now so i might give it a go soon.

[Col. Panic]

Hacking away at a Perl script to monitor data off a web page and send out emails if certain criteria are met. The backend is almost done. After that, I'm doing the front end for the user to specify the criteria in PHP.

However, I've hit a wall tonight: when it goes to send out the email, it's undeliverable because the "Sender domain must exist." Oh, yeah, that sounds like it'll be great fun to fix tomorrow... :rolleyes:

Wouldn't it be nice if the programmer only had to deal with the problems actually within the scope of the program?

[jemfinch]

Latin. Greek. Chemistry. Physics.

Jeremy

[TheLinuxDuck]

You all are a buncha geeks... (^=

[solo]

Finishing up a Perl class. Following tutorials and stuff on the internet (to polish my skills). Preparing a pet project of my own that I (hopefully) can get done in Perl.

[Dru Lee Parsec]

You all are a buncha geeks... (^=

Why thank you my friend. :D

Geek Pride!

[inkedmn]

Originally posted by Dru Lee Parsec:
<STRONG>
Geek Pride!</STRONG>

w00t!

[YaRness]

&lt;inkedmn or TLD&gt;

word.

&lt;/&gt;

[bugfix]

Assembler but not any of the namby-pampy university grade stuff. We actually have to use it where I work; kinda fun in a geeky way.

[Danger Fan]

Originally posted by jemfinch:
<STRONG>Latin. Greek. Chemistry. Physics.

Jeremy</STRONG>

What are you majoring in?

[YaRness]

jeremy's majoring in studying.

[inkedmn]

Originally posted by Danger Fan:
<STRONG>What are you majoring in?</STRONG>

i think he said he's majoring in linguistics (unless i'm high). right?

[Dru Lee Parsec]

I just built a debug message class that automatically turns on different levels of debug messages via a property file. To see more or fewer debug messages you simply modify a property file that sets the debug level for a particular class or package. To activate this change you don't need to recompile the code, you just change the property file and bounce the appropriate servlet (bounce = turn off and then turn back on)

It's kind of cool, I've needed this tool for a while and I just finally got around to building it.

So, I can have a high level of debug messages in my com.uboc.ofx.SignonRqEJB class but have no debug messages at on in my com.uboc.ofx.PmtModRqEJB

That was fun to write. I'm going to have to "borrow" my own code and put it in my Open Source project. :)

[Taizong]

1. Studying for my solaris system admin test
2. making a new template for PHP nuke version 5 (i like the older stuff better).
3. working too much, not drinking enough

[tecknophreak]

NOTHING!!!!! :D :D

ok, well i just finished up a project which took 6 months to do. using a linux box to take high speed data, convert it and put it out to a tape drive. i got to use lots of fun c++ stuff on this one and learn a lot about lower level linux. it's the whole reason why i use linux.

ahhhh..... :cool: i think it's beer time.

next project is to set up an ftp server which records slow data.

in the mean time, i just graduated college and i miss doing pure math, so i'm currently reading a book about fermat's last theorem.

math nerd, computer geek and damn proud of it.

[jemfinch]

Originally posted by Danger Fan:
What are you majoring in?

Classics, with a minor in Chemistry. I'm premed.

Jeremy

(I was formerly linguistics, so inkedmn wasn't too off-base :))

[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: jemfinch ]

[kmj]

Originally posted by Dru Lee Parsec:
<STRONG>
That was fun to write. I'm going to have to "borrow" my own code and put it in my Open Source project. :)</STRONG>

I think that's allowed. :) Sounds like a useful tool.

[Gnu/Vince]

Originally posted by jemfinch:
<STRONG>Classics, with a minor in Chemistry. I'm premed.

Jeremy

(I was formerly linguistics, so inkedmn wasn't too off-base :))

[ 30 January 2002: Message edited by: jemfinch ]</STRONG>


What is classics?

[debiandude]

What is classics? The dead language - Latin and Greek.

Now for what I am doing, in no particular order:
"Trying" to fix the nautilus tar view
Working on my website that no one visits
Porting some of my programs to Gtk2
Finishing up two piano pieces for a concert in 10 days (real nervous)

[kmj]

Originally posted by debiandude:
<STRONG>[QUOTE]
Finishing up two piano pieces for a concert in 10 days (real nervous)</STRONG>

good luck with your concert; I wish I had musical skillz.

[jemfinch]

Originally posted by Gnu/Vince:
What is classics?

I'm studying Latin and Greek.

Originally posted by debiandude:
The dead languages - Latin and Greek.


As unfortunate as it is, the basis for all Western thought and the extant manuscripts of the most popular religion on earth are all written in Greek. If you live in America, chances are that both your logic and your morals were originally defined by works written in ancient Greek.

And Latin is just fun, dang it.

Besides, I hate translations.

Jeremy

[Dru Lee Parsec]

A good buddy of mine was a philosophy major (one year from finishing his Ph.D.) He studied Greek so he could read the original text of the philosophers he was studying.

He specialized in scepticism as a proof of faith (interesting). Essentially as a sceptic you can't believe anything that you see or feel is truely real, and yet if we do certain things we get certain results repeatedly. In his mind this shows a validation of "faith". He then goes on to apply this to faith in religion. It's interesting stuff to hear him use total scepticism as a proof of religious faith.

But then he realized that it didn't make sense for him to become a PhD and a professor. As he put it: "If I am a sceptic, then how can I decide that I know anything with enough absolute certainty to actually teach it and deem somebody elses answer as wrong." So he left the Philosophy major and became a damn good programmer.

So at least at that level of acedemics there's a real need for understanding Greek and Latin.

[scanez]

1. Working on weekly java assignments required for my OOP class.
2. In spare time, if not doing something with algebra (Galois theory at the moment) then working on my prime number algorithm...actually this is more math than programming, still working on theorems and proofs and what not, but once that is done will come the implementation in a language I have yet to decide upon...hmmm, might also do some programs with Galois theory now that I think of it...

[eXtremist]

Currently, I have two projects I'm developing..

1) A scrabble helper program that will run on a PDA. That way I can cheat when I play scrabble without needing my computer close.

2) A dog-translator. Software that recognizes different pitch and frequencies in a dog's bark (or whine) and tells the master exactly what the dog wants.

Of course, #2 isn't really practical, because the software uses 'learning' strategies which require the master to input the dog's feelings. But its something I like playing around with.

[Qubit]

I'm currently working on the maths program I've always wanted to write. It's nothing big yet, but at least now I feel confident enough to work on it. I don't know if I'll ever get to something finished, but at least it's fun while it lasts.

The goal is to be able to manipulate groups and do, well, fun things with groups :) Both discrete and continuous (=Lie) groups.

But for the moment, I'm doing that parser thingie, which may come at handy for a project I'll have next semester (that's why I started it now).

[recluse.]

working on my prime number algorithm

Ahh, going to crack RSA are we?

&lt;behindTheScenes&gt;...recluse walks to door to answer it. BAAM big men in suits come in and drag him away. "It's not meeee! I didn't do it! NOOOoooo. He makes one last lunge at the keyboard.... the last transmission we have: &lt;/behindTheScenes&gt;

NSA

[paully1]

im working on trying to get a programming job, wish the economy was better!

paul

[EyesWideOpen]

1. Palm OS programming
2. C#

[Dru Lee Parsec]

I just discovered that the Jakarta project has a sub project called log4j which does almost the same kinds of logging that the loggin tool that I wrote last week does. Mine has indentation levels but there is faster.

So I'm going to switch over to log4j. It looks pretty cool.

The Jakarta project rulz! They have so many cool projects. :cool:

What I want to work on this weekend: I want to get some serious work done on my open source project and I want to study chess.

What I need to do this weekend: Finish painting the outside of my workshop, start tapeing the drywall inside my workshop, go to my niece's birthday party, put handles on the new cabinets in the bathroom and adjust the cabinet drawers, get a haircut, copy some CD's for work so I can telecommute on occasion.

I don't think the things I need to do will leave any time for the things I want to do. :(

[scanez]

Originally posted by recluse.:
<STRONG>Ahh, going to crack RSA are we? </STRONG>
Heh, nah, prime numbers are just :cool: in their own right :)

Good story though ;)