What is your dream project?
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I think I'd like to create an elaborate application which sits on a users machine, and insults them occasionally. It's not something that would cost millions to create, or take a particularly long time to build, but who cares... I'd then take the money and dissappear... In reality though, I've worked in too many places with chronically poor data and IT systems. I'd like to build a good one for somebody. A complete, reliable and easy to use, company wide package. I'm yet to actually find somewhere that has this, and I'd love for somebody to ask me to do one. Not really very exciting, but it's something that I would really enjoy doing. (I suppose it's just me wantin to prove a point) :-D
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I'm lucky enough to actually work on this very same project on my construction company. Sometime though, i do feel like it's gonna go for nothing because it requires diciplined people to work it. Building something like that in theory is nice but practical problems kick in immediatelly making it extremmely hard to make it flexible, easy and fast enough to cope in a full blown production (hell) line of a mid class company such the one (and million others) i'm working in.
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I'm lucky enough to actually work on this very same project on my construction company. Sometime though, i do feel like it's gonna go for nothing because it requires diciplined people to work it. Building something like that in theory is nice but practical problems kick in immediatelly making it extremmely hard to make it flexible, easy and fast enough to cope in a full blown production (hell) line of a mid class company such the one (and million others) i'm working in.
Do you mean the app for insulting people or the global everything app? ;P At least it's a good project for you to do. I'm currently reduced to writing MI tools and simple 'Helper' apps in my company. Why is it that some companies have decent developers in house, but yet they would rather pay an outsider £000k's for a half baked solutions that don't really cut the mustard? (not that I'm frustrated or anything) :~ I may turn freelance...
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
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It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources.
Hmmmm, if it's TRULY your dream project, you should MAKE time and resources happen for it. My dream project is... http://pianocheater.com/[^]
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There's an advertiser on CP that already sells that. They call it "IncrediBuild".
Interesting. I'll check that out.
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There's an advertiser on CP that already sells that. They call it "IncrediBuild".
Ah, works for C++ only. There's my in! It "works" for C#, but it doesn't actually distrubute the builds across multiple machines. Thus, there isn't any gain, it would seem.
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I can't tell you what my dream project would be - it would clearly violate the kid sister rule!
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
mmmm, a combination of "Business Artificail Intelligence" and "Self Learning" software... Hangon, thats what I'm busy with... And I'm getting paid to do it... Have I died and gone to heaven???
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Do you mean the app for insulting people or the global everything app? ;P At least it's a good project for you to do. I'm currently reduced to writing MI tools and simple 'Helper' apps in my company. Why is it that some companies have decent developers in house, but yet they would rather pay an outsider £000k's for a half baked solutions that don't really cut the mustard? (not that I'm frustrated or anything) :~ I may turn freelance...
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
Of course, i'm talking about the insulting thing app :laugh: Seriously, Bosses are very prone to smart sale pitches. They get dazzled hearing about the "What that new system can do !!" so very selected few ask the "How it is done?" and none asks the "Who will do it?". As for your question, it's simply a matter of trust. They don't trust you but they trust the company that has more developers, is making a living out of their product, have technical support and finally the "If they sell this software for this long and others buy it, it must be good" mentality. The truth is that successful salesman put to work a mix of both character as well as technical knowledge. IT personnel usually is far behind the company front lines (production) and cannot see the actual problems. It takes a lot of time to realize and understand how inapropriate information handling/storage/flow evolves to real life production problems and difficulties. I'm a programmer in vb.net, web programmer & sort of designer, CAD expert, BIM expert, Electronics & Robotics expert, Automation engineer, CNC proffesional, ... etc. It takes a lot a patience and a bit of acting to get your boss to assign you to such a monumental task of defining how his entire factory will handle information. If you play it right, he'll be the one asking for it and your gonna be the sceptical one (usually it's the other way around). PS: Helper apps are good but applications that simply patch up other problems may very well be the reason why your boss doesn't get the hint. If he has the "if it works don't fix it" way of thinking, putting your finger on the hole doesn't help you or him. It's good to know that a patch in the form of a help application usually adds an extra level of process in the line and that consumes time which is the greatest and the most limited resource of all.:thumbsdown: :(
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
Developing a kick ass game.
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
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Porting VBScript to .NET. Come on - you know you want it.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
Why of course solving P=NP and Riemann! Besides, that would bring in another 1 or 2 million dollars. :-D But seriously, I would like to dedicate my full time to research in path finding and optimization algorithms. I can do that a bit for work and a bit for fun now, but it's one of those areas to which you can dedicate a lifetime. Maybe it would get boring after some time, though... ;P
2+2=5 for very large amounts of 2 (always loved that one hehe!)
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Porting VBScript to .NET. Come on - you know you want it.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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