Code Project Project (CPP) [UPDATED 5/31]

Heinz R Vahlbruch

I vote for multiple projects.

heinz r. vahlbruch
c++ & c# programmer from germany

If IntelliSense doesn't have it, it ain't worth calling - Anonymous
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Robert Little

I was working on a tool that I planned to use to help manage systems and resources. I called it mprms, Multipurpose Resource Management System. Since it was a personal project it got sidetracked due to workload and never restarted. It basically helps an administrator to manage his resources. If it is a resource, disk space, memory, processes, then this can monitor it. No real limit to what you can monitor. You could have a device that senses temperature. This could have a module that monitors that device and does something in response to a threshold. All you need is an interface. It isn't limited to a monitoring a computer, the computer is just the tool of choice. Build an engine that does nothing useful. The engine does two things. Reads a configuration file, loads individual modules that do the real work. Each module is a specialized module that performs a specific function. Like the temperature monitor. I have documentation and if anyone thinks this is worthwhile I will write up an article and submit as a project option.

Jorgen Sigvardsson

Jim Crafton wrote: You are aware that the Subversion developers themselves are using it to version control the Subversion project? Yep! Jim Crafton wrote: It's looking pretty good and they're in beta phase now Using a SC system which is in beta phase is not good QA though. Believe me, I've lost code in an unstable SC system before, and it's not a fun thingTM :(( -- I'm the figure head on a ship of fools

Jorgen Sigvardsson

And another thing; how good are the tools for SubVersion? For WinCVS there are a couple of really good tools. Standalone applications as well as VC/VS-addins. -- I'm the figure head on a ship of fools

Marc Clifton

Hi Jason, Count me in! if you want me-he he he :-D Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

Marc Clifton

Chris Austin wrote: Any chances in moving the AAL from a source forge project to a part or subporject of the new CP project? Sure! I'd be fine with that. Chris Austin wrote: I don't look at application development the same way. :jig: :cool: :jig: Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

J Dunlap

;)

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus
"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

iltallman

How about a Widget ;P

Chris Austin

Too bad my co-workers aren't so happy now that I've become the instrumented framework nazi. :) Seriously, I'll be glad to help with your efforts if you can put up with a lot of questions and bit sporatic help at first. I am stil adjusting to my new hours at my new job (7:00 - 4:00 vs "whenever" - "whenever + 9") and I have been very sleepy (not to mention grumpy) lately. Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that? - Jack Burton

Marc Clifton

John Fisher wrote: A client program that monitors all new/updated posts, articles, etc. then lets you browse them at your leasure (without depending upon the cookie that gets confused as to whether you actually read something or not). Well, there's the new RSS feed plus some existing (OK, using cookies I guess), message monitors. John Fisher wrote: This same program would also have a CodeProject-specific chat client built-in. On the humorous side, I already spend too much time reading the messages and replying to them. I'd NEVER get anything done with a live chat system. Plus I guess a lot of people already use existing chat technologies. John Fisher wrote: It could also use a sophisticated article submission handler to ensure good formatting I typically write everything in FrontPage and do the final touch up in the editor that CP already has, which is really cool. That way, I don't mind if the browser crashes. Hope you don't mind the feedback--it would be interesting to further develop these ideas so we're not duplicating existing work. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

Marc Clifton

I don't know about YOUR software, but MY software doesn't have defects! Just kidding. I was perusing the web a few months ago and found some online defect tracking software, some of it was free, some of it had a trial period, etc. Some of them looked pretty cool. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

Marc Clifton

It's probably been done a bunch of different ways, but to develop on Paul's idea, I'd say we need to bootstrap ourselves. A nifty little task manager would be seem to be the first thing, then the other stuff Paul mentioned. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

Marc Clifton

I must say, I'm not thrilled with this idea. It's been done wrong too many times, by focusing on the eye-candy appeal. I'd rather not have yet another ugly class library. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

Marc Clifton

I don't have any particularly concrete ideas on this, but I'm really frustrated how multi-threading hasn't taken off (at least, it seems that way to me!), especially regarding multiprocessors or distributed computing. There must be trillions to the trillionth idle cycles spent by computers. And yes, there's some commercial stuff out there that can distribute processing over the Internet, but the last time I checked, it was bloody expensive. So that's the idea, I guess--an Internet distributed computing engine to consume all those idle cycles. I haven't checked to see if there's already a freeware/shareware of this (probably there is, but I didn't find anything a year ago when I was looking). Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"

Lost User

It is a great idea. I want to do this. With the ability for the distributed process to yield to native (local user) processes, so that it does not actually create problems for the willing donors of CPU cycles, this would be a tremendous system. What we propose is a task scheduler that can que jobs across multiple job queues running on multiple machines. The central dispatcher is capable of monitor progress and identify abnormal termination of tasks (caused by the remote machine having a power failure, app crash etc) and dispatch it to another job queue. An application using this can create stand alone jobs that is dispatched using the scheduler. The job itself contains the complete context required for its progress. The job also can implement progress status updates to the local job queue, that can be send back to the scheduler, so that it can take some scheduling decisions. In short, a parallel processing system that can scale to any number of machines, but controlled from a cental location. Amazing! Thomas My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers

Lost User

I want to do this so bad that I don't care if it is an accepted group project, and people vote for it. Marc, let's go!!! My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers

Lost User

Really, I like it so much that I will put together some thoughts that I have on this and send it to you. Let us go over this and then decide. In the meantime, if you have thought of anything about how this would work, let me know. My article on a reference-counted smart pointer that supports polymorphic objects and raw pointers

J Dunlap

It's worth it, but only if we do it right. I have a ton of good ideas, and maybe there's others who do, too.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus
"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

J Dunlap

There's a number of ideas that I like AND I'd work on, but there are also some ideas that I'd like but WOULDN'T work on - because I don't have the tools, or I don't have the know-how, or whatever. (I suspect, but can't be sure, that this is one of the main reasons why some things have a few really high votes, but not very many people have voted on them.) I'd like to see (maybe later on, as the current system does not lend itself to this) a seperate vote for "good idea" and "I'd pitch in for this one". 2) I'd really like to see how many people would help with a given project. This is crucial, because without helpers, a project is doomed. The voting reflects this somewhat, but if, say, Project#1 has 10 enthusiastic proponents, and 5 people who vote 1 on it, and Project#2 has 3 enthusiastic proponents and lots of "well, maybe"'s, Project#2 will rise above Project#1,even though it's likely to be doomed to failure.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus
"An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

Neville Franks

jdunlap wrote: I have an idea which would only use commands, which could be on menus or toolbars, and would allow user customization of menus/toolbars. In ED (see sig) I have a unified system for handling commands which doesn't care where the commands originate (menu,toolbar,kbd,macro,mouse click) but has the information on the source, should someone down the track need it. Also entire sequences of commands can be tied to a menu item, toolbar button, key sequence etc. along with parameters for each command as required. This has proven to work very well for me and my users. For messaging I find signals and slots are "the way" to go. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. Free Trial at www.getsoft.com