What is everyone working on?

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. :)

Carlos Antollini

I'm Working in Visual C++, making COM objects and NT services for Web of a big bank of America and Europe. Carlos Antollini.

Masaaki Onishi

Hello, the codegurus around the world.:) Last year, Delta airplne is looking for the MFC programmer to map the location of where and how Delta airplanes are flying around the world. If some MFC programmer is done ths job, this application seems to be the coolest one. Each time the pilot sends some message to the airport, this information goes to this application, this application shows all info needed by maping on the views.:cool: Have a nice day!

-Masaaki Onishi-

realJSOP

Does this include all of the ones that crash in a flaming fireball into the ocean?

Josh Knox

Various stuff for our solid modelling program. Just added in code for exporting VRML drawings and am working on improvements for our RenderMan interface. Josh josh@that-guy.net

DRHuff

A navigation system for guiding helicopters in Seismic operations. Integrating GPS, gyro, Laser range finding, load sensors, radios... Uses QNX RTOS with windows base station communicating to the helo. Dave

Ravi Bhavnani

No, but you can implement most of Lotus Notes using Dialog. :-) Dialog is a soft platform that lets you integrate virtually any external module (many of which come with the product) and use virtually any communication channel (voice, email, WAP, direct mail, etc.) /ravi

Bill Carter

My handicap is that I still code.

Jeremy Kimball

Sitting on me arse, unemployed :) Was until recently working on a webified configuration management application using ASP and SQL, with a sprinkling of COM components for the really complicated parts. As I became more fed up with the project, we switched over to a J2EE model (In my opinion, for marketing purposes...we already had a huge investment in the ASP model, so switching over to the EJB model actually LOST huge amounts of time and energy), so I dinked around with that until I could take no more...am currently looking around for another contract gig. Ah, the joys of consulting ;) Jeremy

Paul Watson

Dream job? Maybe... stressful and nerve raking, most likely. In your opinion how is game-dev different from business-dev? regards, Paul Watson Cape Town, South Africa e: paulmwatson@email.com w: vergen.org