Coding Well Forum

Well, I've found my 2009 resolution. Trim the fat. Yup, I'm 130 pounds and trimming the fat. Digital fat that is.

I have TOO MANY projects (More than is on this site). So I need to slim it down and organize myself on that front.

The Two projects I know I must maintain are:

Background Compute
Songbird: List Sync Extension (Making its first appearance since I started developing it a week ago.)

Background Compute: Background Pi Plugin is not looking good. I'm thinking it will get put on the back burner for now. Have I mentioned I don't understand the math behind it? I'd like to hold off till I do because I think I could improve the implementation significantly if I did. Since I stopped developing BackPi v4 I hope no problems arise, the server will keep running and we'll just have to see.

As for the rest, I need to look into it more.

So I started developing a songbird extension since the inability to sync playlists pissed me off. Extensions are written in JavaScript which is weird. It is hard to think asynchronously as all network communication is asynchronous. Ah well, it's good practice.

I just read how each time an apostrophe is misused God kills a kitten. So if I've done so here let me know so I can fix it.

for your pi project: have you considered BOINC? http://boinc.berkeley.edu. or is this like a personal project thing?

Ya, I looked at BOINC. I could do that. A lot of what I do falls under the personal project category just to see if I can do it. Background compute is going to get a major rework someday and do it in a more testable manner. I hope to get an internship this summer doing basically nothing but testing which should help a lot in that area.