What is everyone working on?

Ray Hayes

My CV! ;P (Résumé for you North Americans) Ray

NormDroid

James I wrote the baggage software that communicates with the sortation machines at Manchester. The orginal software was developed in VB, needless to say to was well written and performed like a dog. I rewrote the software in VC++, runs like a dream now. We're also developing a FIDS system for software well known airports look us up on www.fswalkerhughes.com Regards Norm

James Spibey

Well, I'm based about 5 miles from Manchester Airport and as yet we have done absolutely nothing there although I'm about to assist on a quote for Terminal 2. You're lucky to get FIDS work - I'd love to do that as we mostly do the low level comms/controls software and never get chance to do the pretty graphics stuff :)

Jason Gerard

I feel your pain brother. I have to rewrite a perfectly good ASP/COM application in Java 2 and Oracle. And I've been forced to learn Java for the last 2 months. :(( :mad: X| p.s. Java Sucks Jason Gerard

Rob Manderson

I'm writing a massively multithreaded generic NT service... interesting challenge to ensure jobs are never lost... Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net

William E Kempf

The Boost.Threads library (http://www.boost.org). The library is under development and hasn't been submitted for Boost inclusion (yet), but it will be a portable threading library designed specifically for C++. The hopes are that this can be the starting point of a proposal for the C++ standards committee. :cool: William E. Kempf

Sardaukar

(1) std::tree is missing, so I started to do it... (2) nt namespace (i.e. services, event log, registry, boot.ini, you know, the problems that makes us all to spend two days to boot...) (3) Quake I & protoss vs 3 computers :) (4) a tool for transporting large VC project selecting file(s) type(s) and folders (ie exclude .obj files, Debug folders, etc.) (5) Win32 API/C grid control That's all I remember now :)

Wayne Fuller

I guess we are in the same boat. Learning Java has not been too bad, but since I come from a Windows desktop application world, throwing Internet programming on top of this has been difficult. I am in the middle of project two and it is a lot better than I thought it would be. If we could go back to Oracle, I would be a happy man. Wayne

Jim A Johnson

Software sampler/synthesizer and its associated UI.

Stan Shannon

Another day, another cheesey Windows desktop app. I only dream of doing cool stuff. (Well, I did just finish a little application for visually editing images in an outgoing fax, that was kind of cool, at least I got to excercise my entire skill set. But now its back to enhancing our network logon security procedures or something equally dull. Yawn)

Chris Losinger

My day job is writing retirement planning software (how much to save, where to save it, when to start spending it, etc.). Originally a Windows destktop app but we're trying to put it on the web (COM+ and friends). My night job is writing Windows 2D graphics software (www.smalleranimals.com). -c ------------------------------ Smaller Animals Software, Inc. http://www.smalleranimals.com

Andrew Torrance

Interfacing an automatic guided vehicle system to a production system .Straight MFC . England is not an island.

realJSOP

At work - real-time image acquisition and transmission (I can't get into more detail than that) 2) At home - A program suite that does (or will do) the following: a) simplifies launching one-or more racing simulation servers b) allows remote administration of those servers c) accumulates race results (reported by the servers mentioned, as well as other sources) d) calculates statistics and ranking information based on accumulated race results e) allows clients to setup races (on race servers that allow it) f) provides list of active servers for clients to race on g) provides chat capability for clients h) provides car skin exchange for clients Needless to say, the project at home is rather ambitious for a one-man operation. The software is completely free to anyone that wants to use it (of course they must have the associated racing sim as well). I could be talked into taking on a helper that is well versed in TCP/IP and client server stuff. Keep in mind that there would be no monetary reward, and no recognition beyond having your name show up in the code and probably the about box. :-)

Joel Lucsy

I don't know if it's cool, but take a look at http://www.cadfx.com Basically all our products are being upgraded to be more "user friendly". Joel Lucsy (jjlucsy@concentric.net)

Stuart van Weele

At work: Rewriting a system for tracking pre-clinical studies. The UI is MFC with a some ATL controls, while the business logic is in Java servlets. Communication is XML. At home: Chipping away at a MS (or PhD if I can swing it). My current fun project is a simple CAD system that can output VRML or 3DS. When I get the mechanics of that down, I want to try parametric generation of objects such as trees, buildings, etc.

realJSOP

I used to write estate planning software for ViewPlan. Ever heard of them?

Chris Losinger

yep. it's a small (financial planning software) world. :) i'm working for Mobius (MPlan). -c ------------------------------ Smaller Animals Software, Inc. http://www.smalleranimals.com

Tim Deveaux

Oh poop - was I supposed to be working on something? :-O

realJSOP

I worked for ViewPlan for 12 years, most of that time as their only programmer. CCH bought the company a few years ago, and the software has taken what I view as a turn for the worse. It's buggy, has fewer features, is harder to use, and they don't care about their current customer base at all. It's a great opportunity for other estate planning software companies to gain some long-time ViewPlan users.

Gregg Carlstrom

Well, not really an application per se, but I'm working on a game engine using portal/octree rendering, among other things. Starting with the low level framework and building my way upwards, very, very slowly. :)