What are you building over the holidays?
The holidays are here, and it's the perfect time to dive into a project. So spill it. What are you building?
Other than that, more work on my flight simulator: http://younata.com/
It's built in to corelocation in iOS 7... You can even use an iOS device as an iBeacon...
The api makes it very easy to use. I would like to get a generic beacon I can just slap on my door and forget about for 6 months or so, rather my current hack of using another one of my idevices to play with this.
As it is, I'll probably just get a raspi with a bluetooth le dongle, and use that (when my phone gets really close to the door, it unlocks the door, is the thought).
Just finished the first prototype - a don't-break-the-chain app in a single PHP file (embedded HTML, the horror). It's liberating!
Ideally I'd love for there to be a way to explicitly modify database structure, easily and predictably, and have it all just work in several SQL dialects, so that you could meld the engine and the admin interface etc. to any project whether it's a blog or not. I feel like most of these bloggy engines make database structure either invisible or too difficult to understand and minipulate.
Definitely want to open source it proper, build it to be extendable etc. Don't care about competing with anything else, just want to be another option out there. Nothing all that special but maybe my use-cases will create something that fills a niche.
My first time playing with old Win32 GUI stuff, and my first blog entry!
[1] http://blog.dantler.us/2013/12/23/using-push-to-talk-ventril...
I searched a lot and gave Google Keep a chance, but it has no API so I can't write on it through Alfred or Terminal. Also the sync is crazy as sometimes takes MINUTES to an updated file appear on my mobile. The dropbox app is not good for my needs too because it requires too many steps to see the updated file - when I start it and the file is already open I need to go back to the files list and get back to the file so it can refresh.
So I decided to build it.
My surprise was that dropbox supplies the entire code for an app with its API (Notes Example) that's very, very, very similar to PlainText! Two days using and nothing seems to be missing or not functioning well. So no coding, just compiling ;-)
Other than that, working on an a bitcoin price comparison site for bitcoin to track your different coin balances and at which prices you bought and sold (pure for fun)
I'm planning to extend my MVP at http://my.cyclelove.net/ to include physical products, printed with a customised graphic of your bike.
Eg http://my.cyclelove.net/deluxe/ but with your bike logo printed to order on a tshirt, iPhone cover, stickers etc.
Currently researching possible suppliers including the likes of https://www.shirts.io and http://www.stickermule.com/ (no API?)
(1) Send me a photo of your bike (2) I will immortalise it as a myCycleLove logo (3) Your myCycleLove will then be printed to a t-shirt of your choosing and mailed to you
- Build hanging towers (where you want, really);
- Enemies can destroy your towers;
- You can move object freely in the world by dragging it;
- You can upgrade your towers (interface built with backbone + bootstrap)
- The damage is calculated with the force of impact of the bullet (in next version you can change the bullet type: slowing action, mines/explosions...).
- You can build crates (will be named crap in next version)
Play now here in browser (no download, ~600KB): https://webdesignporto.com/
First release will be in dutch (had some prospects before i build it), but everything is ready for localisation :)
https://github.com/SandyWalsh/trivia-box/tree/master/pi
https://twitter.com/TheSandyWalsh/status/415600847184465920/...
I'm planning on releasing the source under some sort of OSS license and eventually releasing the app for free on the App Store. Follow me on twitter if you want to learn when it's released in either capacity.
Its goal is to help you when you project grows and you can't contain it in your head anymore. The ordinary todos didn't worked for me when the projects became brain suckers if you know what I mean.
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I unwrapped my first good set of headphones in years this morning, so spending some time coding is even more enjoyable.
http://architecture.lego.com/en-us/products/architect/fallin...
It's still quite early, but it's starting to look a little like something that might be useful someday.
-Threaded outbound link aggregator
-Brochure site for somebody
-Lots and lots of "Hello World" tutorials for Android
Time permitting, a simple bitcoin gambling site.
Time permitting, a really easy way to do microdonations.
Good luck.