3 Days To Go

The digg response today was great. Thanks for all the great ideas!

I'd love to get this site into a better form then a blog, but needless to say I'll be busy enough without worrying about that. I will have to make up some sort of page to publish the applications on, and that's what I'll work on tonight.

Eventually maybe I can get a full blown site done and pull this off again - after the holiday. I'd like to go into an app a week or so. That would be much more acceptable. I won't get ahead of myself though.

In response to the many comments on my blog and digg:

I'm going to be focusing on .NET 2.0 applications. C# will be my language of choice. I do not know if they will run on Mono (linux .NET runtime). I chose this platform because it's what I currently use at my job. This allows me to fine tune my skills, and take advantage of the language that I already know. Right now is not the time for me to start writing linux apps, although I'd love to. Perhaps in the future I can enlist some volunteers and expand this idea.

Click here to install the .NET 2.0 runtime.
No, this is not some crazy viral marketing ploy by Microsoft. It's just my tool of choice at the moment.

This isn't to say that I won't be inspired to write some C++ code to do something wacky that was suggested, and it doesn't rule out any web stuff. We'll see where this leads me. Bottom line, I need to be comfortable with what I'm using to meet these deadlines.

Thanks for all the great email ideas, keep them coming. Some of my favorites for now:
- Task scheduler (cron)
- Alarm clock / reminder
- Graphical drive size analysis (where'd all my space go?!?!)
- Tree view XML editor

These are perfect examples of ideas easily written in an evening. Keep them coming. As was said in a digg comment, may the source be with you.