Thread: Small Project Ideas

Well, I have nothing to do so. I am willing to help people develop small Java applications if you wish. So give me your idea and I'll let you know what I think of it and if I can help you out or not

Regards,
Chris

Ye ok enjoy yourself. I have an Idea for one too

Chris

i hope i can help you both.

Cheers,
Truffy

Hey Truffy the general idea between me and JavaPF atm is to develop some software that can be made avaliable to forum memebers, so if you have any ideas of stuff then that would be great. Also we are just looking to do them together with others too to reduce work load since people have full time Jobs and things to attend too.

Chris

Hmm, i don't have any ideas, but i'd like to do some small projects, too.

Well depending on what we have we can see what we can get going, some of the bigger things may have a section you could do or something. Have to look at what we have and who wants to help I guess

Nice to see some interest though

Chris

Welcome back. Glad you are

Well My idea, is kind of an RSS feed that doesn't need an RSS feed. So basically, you run the application it signs you in to javaprogrammingforums.com then sits in the icon tray at the bottom an alerts you of new threads and posts etc, as they happen.

Just an idea.

Chris

Well I was looking at developing it with what was avaliable within java.net, but the major problem I had was trying to log in and store the cookies etc. Largely because of the fact your login for uses VB functions -_-. But Ye we could always go via a VBulletin API I guess, just though it would be a nice thing to have, saves hitting refresh etc and you can run it at work without them knowing xD

Chris

Hi guys,

I was looking for a thread or forum like this

When I read your posts I thought that if there is no API for the forums, maybe there might be a plugin or something like that we could use that generates RSS for us as people post new threads. We could then just download this RSS in this application and notify the user. The problem however might be that RSS feeds might not work so well with user authentication.

I've created some applications before however were I've used "screen scraping" to parse a website for the information I wanted. Something like that might also work.

Oh and btw, I'm interested in helping out if need be, maybe start a project up on Project Kenai — We're More Than Just a Forge

// Json

Thats unfortunate, however I had another idea, that perhaps we could put together a library of common things that we resolve on these forums. Something like a jpfcommons project. This could for instance contain code for generating random password or a utility to extract NetInfo etc.

We could then gradually let more members commit things to this. Could be fun.

// Json

I don't know, maybe we could create a project on one of the open source code platforms out there like Google, Sourceforge, Kenai or whatever

Do we need to define some sort of code structure for people to use or should we just get going?

// Json

How about this then?

jpfcommons - Project Hosting on Google Code

// Json

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Ok, well I have nothing to do. So I want to get this kicked off, seems Json is pretty active so maybe between the two of us wwe can get something going?

Chris