Code Project Project (CPP) [UPDATED 5/31]
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I actually tossed around the idea of a .NET engine that we could write plug-ins for, and which could battle each other and use primitive AI to attack, defend, build, repair and form clans. And then Microsoft built Terrarium :mad: cheers, Chris Maunder
yer but terrarium is rubbish Bryce --- Publitor, making Pubmed easy. http://www.sohocode.com/publitor
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Jason Henderson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
A bit late i guess but count me in too :)
I always think that the idea of a compiler that compiles another compiler or itself is rather incestuous in a binary way. - Colin Davies My .Net Blog
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A bit late i guess but count me in too :)
I always think that the idea of a compiler that compiles another compiler or itself is rather incestuous in a binary way. - Colin Davies My .Net Blog
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Jason Henderson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
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I have now lost all respect for you. Just kidding. :-D "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
Navin wrote: I have now lost all respect for you. You had respect for me to start with? Wow, thanks :-D Actually it was a pretty good project. The client is not using it to mass mail just anyone, they have their contact database which consists of registered subscribers.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChris Losinger wrote: i hate needles so much i can't even imagine allowing one near The Little Programmer
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*points to Paul* cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: *points to Paul* You evil, evil man. You soften me up on IM, then the penny drops on this forum. ;)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChris Losinger wrote: i hate needles so much i can't even imagine allowing one near The Little Programmer
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Perhaps we'll let the team leader decide how to handle team members. I also see us splitting the volunteers between maybe 3 projects. Obviously not everyone can work on the best.
Jason Henderson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
Splitting up the volunteers would mean that we lose some of the momentum that we now have. I would rather finish off one project and first then start a new project? If we split up, nowbody will then be interested in what we do, compared to now when everybody wants to know what is happening. If we have only one project we can also discuss it in the lounge and it might be fun, but with many projects going on, the discussion would be more boring, I think, because you dont know what the others are talking about. jhaga CodeProject House, Paul Watson wrote: ...and the roar of John Simmons own personal Nascar in the garage. Meg flitting about taking photos.Chris having an heated arguement with Colin Davies and .S.Rod. over egian values. Nish manically typing *censur*. Duncan racing around after his pet *c.* Michael Martin and Bryce loudly yelling *c.* C.G. having a fit as Roger Wright loads up *c.* . Anna waving her *c.* and Deb scoffing chocolates in the corner. ...Good heavens!
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Splitting up the volunteers would mean that we lose some of the momentum that we now have. I would rather finish off one project and first then start a new project? If we split up, nowbody will then be interested in what we do, compared to now when everybody wants to know what is happening. If we have only one project we can also discuss it in the lounge and it might be fun, but with many projects going on, the discussion would be more boring, I think, because you dont know what the others are talking about. jhaga CodeProject House, Paul Watson wrote: ...and the roar of John Simmons own personal Nascar in the garage. Meg flitting about taking photos.Chris having an heated arguement with Colin Davies and .S.Rod. over egian values. Nish manically typing *censur*. Duncan racing around after his pet *c.* Michael Martin and Bryce loudly yelling *c.* C.G. having a fit as Roger Wright loads up *c.* . Anna waving her *c.* and Deb scoffing chocolates in the corner. ...Good heavens!
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empty message rely to this if you have an idea
Jason Henderson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
Three ideas. 1. The idea that Chris Maunder mentioned. The good thing about that project is that it is doable, practical. It can consist of a foundation layer and then phases as new controls are built. Results can be quickly achieved which is vital to the success of a project team like this. The down side is it is web-dev and I know not everyone here is interested in that. 2. A code snippet library sharing app and service, thing. Naturally with a Visual Studio add-in. There are a lot of them out there but after having spent a week downloading and testing most of them the common problem is they are nice but hardcore programmers will hate them. You know, the command line type of guy. Most of them are a pain to setup and have a bunch of features that hardcore okes will never use. It needs to be something really slick, something focused and direct that works like a hardcore chap expects it to. 3. A project management system. Phase tracking, bugs, document storage, client feedback area etc. Not a source control system, but a system for the management of a project that both managers/clients and the developers are happy with. We all bitch about management of projects, so lets do something about it for once.
Also for the project in general, especially the first time out, I would like to say; Think small, think focused, think useful. An operating system, a game? Come on guys, we know how that will go, it won't. We need something that will do one or two things very, very well. Something that can start small, a foundation layer, be released, see results and then can be extended as needed. It must be attainable. Management of this is going to be a nightmare. People get bored, go on holiday, disagree, fail to deliver or just disapear. Splinter groups will form. So if we do something small and focused the first time it sets a good precedent for later, larger projects. Lets rather get our internals working before we try and fix the world :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChris Losinger wrote: i hate needles so much i can't even imagine allowing one near The Little Programmer
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Three ideas. 1. The idea that Chris Maunder mentioned. The good thing about that project is that it is doable, practical. It can consist of a foundation layer and then phases as new controls are built. Results can be quickly achieved which is vital to the success of a project team like this. The down side is it is web-dev and I know not everyone here is interested in that. 2. A code snippet library sharing app and service, thing. Naturally with a Visual Studio add-in. There are a lot of them out there but after having spent a week downloading and testing most of them the common problem is they are nice but hardcore programmers will hate them. You know, the command line type of guy. Most of them are a pain to setup and have a bunch of features that hardcore okes will never use. It needs to be something really slick, something focused and direct that works like a hardcore chap expects it to. 3. A project management system. Phase tracking, bugs, document storage, client feedback area etc. Not a source control system, but a system for the management of a project that both managers/clients and the developers are happy with. We all bitch about management of projects, so lets do something about it for once.
Also for the project in general, especially the first time out, I would like to say; Think small, think focused, think useful. An operating system, a game? Come on guys, we know how that will go, it won't. We need something that will do one or two things very, very well. Something that can start small, a foundation layer, be released, see results and then can be extended as needed. It must be attainable. Management of this is going to be a nightmare. People get bored, go on holiday, disagree, fail to deliver or just disapear. Splinter groups will form. So if we do something small and focused the first time it sets a good precedent for later, larger projects. Lets rather get our internals working before we try and fix the world :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChris Losinger wrote: i hate needles so much i can't even imagine allowing one near The Little Programmer
On track! :) Paul Watson wrote: The down side is it is web-dev and I know not everyone here is interested in that. I'm interested, but I don't have Windows 2000/XP, so I can't test ASP .NET stuff. That doesn't mean I can't code them, though.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus
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Jason Henderson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
Count me in (depends on project) -Dominik
_outp(0x64, 0xAD);and__asm mov al, 0xAD __asm out 0x64, aldo the same... but what do they do?? ;) -
Navin wrote: I have now lost all respect for you. You had respect for me to start with? Wow, thanks :-D Actually it was a pretty good project. The client is not using it to mass mail just anyone, they have their contact database which consists of registered subscribers.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChris Losinger wrote: i hate needles so much i can't even imagine allowing one near The Little Programmer
That's what the mass mailers say.
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Jason Henderson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
I'm in. Your brave taking the lead.
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Jason Henderson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
For the right type of project, I am in. MFC GUI, or the UGLY project sound right up my street. Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 Were you different as a kid? Did you ever say "Ooohhh, shiny red" even once? - Paul Watson 11-February-2003
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With all this brain power, I'm sure we could get a decent AI (or I am being too hopefull?)
.............Zack............. Developer Extraordinaire && Full Time Geek
"It's all about function over form. I mean, look at NASA. Their code isn't formatted correctly and their stuff looks crappy, but they'll get you to the moon." "And the geek shall inherit the earth..." GCS\P\SS d- s-:- a-- C++$ U--- P--- L- E- W++ N o K-? w+++ O++ !M-- V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5+ X+ R++ tv++ b++ DI++ D+++ G+>G++++ e* h- r++ y+
Some possible research for this. http://www.opencyc.org/[^]http://www.cs.umbc.edu/kqml[^]
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Perhaps an RPG similar to Wizardry. Or a FPS along the lines of Duke Nukem.
.............Zack............. Developer Extraordinaire && Full Time Geek
"It's all about function over form. I mean, look at NASA. Their code isn't formatted correctly and their stuff looks crappy, but they'll get you to the moon." "And the geek shall inherit the earth..." GCS\P\SS d- s-:- a-- C++$ U--- P--- L- E- W++ N o K-? w+++ O++ !M-- V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5+ X+ R++ tv++ b++ DI++ D+++ G+>G++++ e* h- r++ y+
Or C&C, AOM, or UO? The key to a game is a good story! Any writers in the house willing to write a story? The story is what glues everything together.
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Ok... 1 think I always find myself doing when I'm talking to fellow CPians [via IM] is using things like :zzz: and :rolleyes:. Why not make an Instant Messenging system... we could use the SIP and/or Jabber protocols so it could interoperate with MSN, AIM, ICQ and so on. It's not a massive project and not too difficult, it'll be good to get to know the others in the group and it's something we could all use on future projects to aid in our communication and so on. As well as being able to communicate with MSN and so on [SIP is great :-D] and having all the CP emoticons [very important] it could conenct to the CP rss feed and pull information from the web services here on CP [along with other webservices/rss feeds]. Integrated colloberation tools for CPP and so on Just a thought. Regards, Brian Dela :-)
Like Trillian? http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/[^]
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How about an artificial life project with a CP twist? imagine Reproducing Bobs... Seriously, would anyone be interested in an ALife/AI project? This may satisfy JoeSox and also give the rest of us some AI experience.
Jason Henderson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
I personally think AI related is a great idea. In fact an Life sounds really cool to me. With respect to the MS thing, something with the same goal, advancing the "language" is available. It deals with AI and learning a language. http://robocode.alphaworks.ibm.com/home/home.html[^] This has all source code available. Could be used, the logic that is, to create a framework for the ALife.
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How about an artificial life project with a CP twist? imagine Reproducing Bobs... Seriously, would anyone be interested in an ALife/AI project? This may satisfy JoeSox and also give the rest of us some AI experience.
Jason Henderson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
Rather than just an ALife/AI, how about an ALife/AI project that is a P2P system. No central servers. Possible research information: http://www.jxta.org/[^]
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Three ideas. 1. The idea that Chris Maunder mentioned. The good thing about that project is that it is doable, practical. It can consist of a foundation layer and then phases as new controls are built. Results can be quickly achieved which is vital to the success of a project team like this. The down side is it is web-dev and I know not everyone here is interested in that. 2. A code snippet library sharing app and service, thing. Naturally with a Visual Studio add-in. There are a lot of them out there but after having spent a week downloading and testing most of them the common problem is they are nice but hardcore programmers will hate them. You know, the command line type of guy. Most of them are a pain to setup and have a bunch of features that hardcore okes will never use. It needs to be something really slick, something focused and direct that works like a hardcore chap expects it to. 3. A project management system. Phase tracking, bugs, document storage, client feedback area etc. Not a source control system, but a system for the management of a project that both managers/clients and the developers are happy with. We all bitch about management of projects, so lets do something about it for once.
Also for the project in general, especially the first time out, I would like to say; Think small, think focused, think useful. An operating system, a game? Come on guys, we know how that will go, it won't. We need something that will do one or two things very, very well. Something that can start small, a foundation layer, be released, see results and then can be extended as needed. It must be attainable. Management of this is going to be a nightmare. People get bored, go on holiday, disagree, fail to deliver or just disapear. Splinter groups will form. So if we do something small and focused the first time it sets a good precedent for later, larger projects. Lets rather get our internals working before we try and fix the world :)
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaChris Losinger wrote: i hate needles so much i can't even imagine allowing one near The Little Programmer
Paul Watson wrote: We need something that will do one or two things very, very well. Something that can start small, a foundation layer, be released, see results and then can be extended as needed. This is needed so we can work out the bugs and see how this whole project thing works out. Use a spiral model. Build small, then build layer by layer like on onion. This doesn't mean you can't have a grand idea. Just keep the initial requirements to a minimum.