What's your current "pet" programming project

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What project is your current "pet" project. It might not see the light of day, but its something you work on because its fun, it has possibilities, but youre not banking on it making you millions.

My current project is my custom cms. Granted, Im getting ready to release sites using it, but its something that I constantly fiddle with. I think Im on version 3 atm.

So whatre your pet programming projects.
 


I've been fiddling around with a CMS for a while as well. I don't know if I will ever get it to the point where I feel comfortable deploying it for any substancial sites though.
 
I wouldn't call it a "pet". But I'm working on a stupid complicated e-commerce store for performance car parts. On the back burner at the moment, but will be a huge project if I ever go through with it.
 
I am programming my next project, very hush hush, but it'll only take me a couple of days when i start on it, just been planning it in my head / doing the database the past few days.
 
I'm always having a few of those sneaky little bastards...The latest one is a little program for precisely calculating my monthly income & storing all the data in a MySQL db...
 
My next project will probably be related to a website I might open. I'm not really bothered with web design at the moment, too much other bullshit to waste my life on when you're 15.
 
templating, shopping carts, blog/article scripts, task/project tracking, directories... what else do i have on the go these days....

i'm a programmer and get annoyed more and end up re-writing code i've downloaded off of the internet. i just find it easier to write code from scratch then try to retrofit pre-made scripts. i find my code much lighter and useful.
 
jacob said:
i'm a programmer and get annoyed more and end up re-writing code i've downloaded off of the internet. i just find it easier to write code from scratch then try to retrofit pre-made scripts. i find my code much lighter and useful.
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I cant tell you how often I've felt the same. Pretty much the same reason I coded up my own CMS, I prefer lighter code that does only what I need, and not much more.
 
i've been slowly but surely reading thru 'getting things done' and have embraced the simplicity mentality. since simplifying my coding process, i've become so much more efficient.

just because you can do something, doesn't meant you should

i have worked with some people who like to complicate the ef out of: 2+2=4. they would rather write a hundred lines of code for something that could have taken four - and i'm not talking scrunching your code onto one line making it very unreadable either.
 
I'm working on building a community. It's not really a CMS or a blog or a forum, maybe a combination of each. A type of Web 2.0 project.
 
jacob said:
i've been slowly but surely reading thru 'getting things done' and have embraced the simplicity mentality. since simplifying my coding process, i've become so much more efficient.

just because you can do something, doesn't meant you should

i have worked with some people who like to complicate the ef out of: 2+2=4. they would rather write a hundred lines of code for something that could have taken four - and i'm not talking scrunching your code onto one line making it very unreadable either.
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So kind of like a code refactoring? I've done this a number of times myself, and 9 out of 10 times I end up making up the time I put into it.
 
In a broad term - data mining and neural nets.

Using .net

::emp::
 
a.titus1 said:
So kind of like a code refactoring? I've done this a number of times myself, and 9 out of 10 times I end up making up the time I put into it.
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Yes, exactly! I'm also trying to work on abstracing my code more to increase code re-use. I find it's most definitely been a great use of my time. now if only I can figure out how to run multiple websites off of one codebase thru my web hosting....
 
jacob said:
Yes, exactly! I'm also trying to work on abstracing my code more to increase code re-use. I find it's most definitely been a great use of my time. now if only I can figure out how to run multiple websites off of one codebase thru my web hosting....
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I've been tossing around a similar idea of making an offline app that will let me manage all my sites from one central control. Sort of like a cpanel for everything. Still have to figure out a few things though, but it would be a handy thing to have a single control point for all different sites.
 
I know how i can do this on a local server but not on my hosting provider. I know I've seen bits of code that include a file off of a different domain but that to me doesn't sound secure. I'm worrying I might have to go to a VPS account in order to do that but can't justify $35 more per month for that.
 
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