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Ask HN: What project are you working on over the holidays?

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Maybe you've got some time off and you're working on a side project, or maybe your team is in crunch mode to release something early in the new year. Maybe you've had enough technical work for a while, and you're doing something away from a computer over the holidays.

What are you working on over the next couple weeks?

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I'll be working on adding some new features to our Enterprise Social Network project, Quoddy[1]. One thing I plan to work on is the ability to insert a document, and the associated tools for operating on that document, into the stream of events. We already do a basic version of this for BPM events, where you can approve/reject/delay/transfer events from the stream, but we want to generalize that facility a bit and add something for working on files.

For now, that will probably mean Google Drive integration, but we'll probably also eventually do something for working with files in a repository using something like JCR[2] and/or CMIS[3].

Longer term, I think we'll do something with Apache Wave[4] and the Operational Transformation[5] stuff as part of this whole idea of putting interactive entities in the stream. It's not all fleshed out yet, but some of the ideas I'm toying with harken back to the old idea of "compound documents"[6] and "intelligent documents"[7], or something like Bret Victor's "reactive documents" stuff[8].

Outside of all that, I plan to finish reading Permutation City by Greg Egan, and Philip C. Jackson's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

[2]: https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Management_Interoperabi...

[4]: http://wave.apache.org

[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

[6]: http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/

[7]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_document

[8]: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/

Today I've finally found the time to add a long requested feature to the appointment scheduling system that I offer as Saas. It'll allow customers to pick and book multiple appointments in one go. As a bonus I'll make the look and feel a bit modern and ajaxy.

http://www.appointmind.com/

My friend and I recently launched http://therealilluminati.co/ It's a tool that automagically intros two people that should know each other. Get intro'd to someone awesome to help reach your goals, essentially. Check it out! :)

I'm working on my first open source project: a Python library to make debugging with print statements easier and more efficient. http://www.github.com/alixander/pyscribe

Now a days i am working on a Android app which provide location based social media stream ( twitter, FB, Instagram etc ) It was planed to be launch on 1st Jan but due to too much cold in lahore led it to bit late ..... ;)

I want an OSS customer chat for some time. I'll probably start it this holiday.

I know other people who use only Olark/Zopim free plans because it is too expensive and really want something like it.

A console (read "ncurses") port of bomberman, because it was a game that I've been playing too much recently and I think it is within my capacity to implement.

Sounds good!

Going to improve the web-site of my parents non-profit. Also going to try to come up with a algorithm/ or just try to figure out their target market for donations.

I've been experimenting with creating music generating algorithms. I haven't it up on Github yet, because there isn't much to show right now.

I'm experimenting with AndroidStudio and getting the NDK to work. Once I have this figured out, fun times lie ahead!

Working on my algorithm and abstract data structure implementations. Linked Lists, Binary Search Trees, Hash Tables.

Mostly reading some crime novels, helping my father with his 5-axis-cnc mill, playing with Arduino.

A stats service for new websites that notifies you when interesting things happen on your website.

what sort of "interesting things?"

I'm playing around with SDL2, C++ and component-entity systems.

I am working on an online indie appstore for indie developers.

I'm self-employed. I've been working on my "Global Computer Employer Index" while looking for gigs, however I am contemplating a KickStarter for it, so I can work on it full-time:

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/

So far I've got real content in San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Vancouver Washington, Portland Oregon, Seattle, Boston and Remote work. However I have partial information for many, many other cities that I will post as I get complete info.

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