Jedi Open Enrollment
I have 3 days left. I've proved myself. I am a Software Jedi.
Check out my latest app, the Code Saver!
Are there other Software Jedii? Bring it on! Write to me at "jediapplication at mydomain dt com" and let me know if you can start coding on Sunday, and can keep it up for 30 days. The only rules are that you have to start before midnight (your local time) and finish in time to start the next before the following midnight. Simple next day bugfixes are excused. The application you write must be useful (you, and the other Jedii [me] are the judges). This is language and OS agnostic, your tool of choice.
Calling all linux, mac, and other fanboys! You think your OS is better? Prove it by showing me that you can write just as many useful desktop applications for your OS as I've written for mine. If any MS alternative OS developer writes an application a day for 30 days, I will give up my XP desktop at home, and replace with their chosen OS upon completion.
It'll never happen though. You love to brag about your OS but you don't see why I love mine so much. Sorry you can't c0de. You fanboys are all talk. I'll tell you what - I'll even have an MS software burning party at my house as I switch to another OS. I'll put the whole thing on Google Video and defame myself. BUT, I'm still the Software Jedi. ;)
Please contact me as previously mentioned ("jediapplication at mydomain dt com"), and let's talk. I'm willing to help a bit with the site, provide analytics, and give you 100% of the adsense revenue for this domain (don't expect an income - it's not pulling it's weight).
In addition, anyone who completes this will have worldwide recognition as a Software Jedi. Don't underestimate the power of this on-line resume. Just Google my name for proof. This project has been on digg's front page 9 or 10 times in 28 days as a result of my applications (I'd expect the same from any Jedi), and I've had over 4 million hits (140,000 unique visitors). All this in 27 days - join my 1337 programmer club - The Software Jedi.
Where is the next Jedi?
posted by Unknown @ 12:35 AM
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yeah, the apps were cool and very impressive for the time to make them. I esp. liked the Concentrate app. I would probably use it regularly if ther where certain improvements, but anyways congrats and making a mashup doesn't count unless you improve the individual apps in it. ;)
You have inspired me. I will probably give it a try some day, but not publicly.
I don't want or need the publicity or attention, but it would be nice to have a big collection of cool tools to put on my site.
It would be a good personal challenge for myself...especially a challenge to think up all the apps on my own...pull them from my own imagination.
One question: Why midnight? Why not 4am? (I code better between 4am - 8am)
Well, congrtulations!
You've created a bunch of nice and useful apps here.
Thanks! I really appriciate that you also post the source code to your apps.
I would really love to do "an app a day" myself, but to be honest with you, I don't have 30 ideas for apps.
You've done well young padawan. But your pride does not befit the Jedi. Mere ability, a measure of oneself is not.
When this lesson you have learned, then might you be granted the title, hmm?
You don't need 30 ideas for apps, you need 30 friends with 1 idea each or 60 friends with half a brain each... like most of my coworkers/friends.
Jedi,
You're like the football player who started his touchdown celebration 10 yards before the endzone. You could trip and strain your clicking finger. Have you not read the Ancient Greek tragedies, man! Full of stories of hubris... Maybe we'll start calling you Icarus.
"You're like the football player who started his touchdown celebration 10 yards before the endzone. "
that is unless he's already IN the end-zone and we are watching it on tape delay...hmmmm...already finished your apps, Jedi?
Hi guys. This may be answered elsewhere, but has anyone seen where to download the source for the utils?
http://www.anappaday.com/downloads/
I would try to...but considering I don't have 30 friends or 30 ideas...I couldn't..
Mabye 5...but not 30 for 30 days strait...and I program in Visual Basic and no-one wants to see that :P
--HackerX4--
Way to go Jedi. I have really enjoyed watching you do this. I will learn a lot from your code too…
To bad the Ad Sense is not working well. I can see that the ads are not well targeted to your audience. To fix this, figure out some keywords that match up with the audience then use them in your text. Don’t do this to the point of making if obvious. Just be more verbose now and then.
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Calling all linux, mac, and other fanboys! You think your OS is better? Prove it by showing me that you can write just as many useful desktop applications for your OS as I've written for mine. If any MS alternative OS developer writes an application a day for 30 days, I will give up my XP desktop at home, and replace with their chosen OS upon completion.
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It is so sad to see that it's about this... Get a life Mr. Jedi.... You suck... :)
Your a moron. Your applications are piece of piss, deriving nearly all functionality from other components. In fact from reading your blog, you don't like to detail too much about your applications. When i was 16 I wrote similar speech apps etc
I recon in the same vein, I could do 30 usefull perl scripts a week in the line of normal duty.
The applications for download may be simple, but they do not appear trivial creations. Mr. Hanna certainly knows his way around the Windows API, and the source code does not, at first glance, appear too shabby either.
However, this post leaves me a little puzzled. I find it difficult to believe that someone not ignorant of the workings of a computer would have such ferverant evangalism of their OS of choice. I suspect the jabs about Linux and OSX are merely bait in an attempt to get a rise out of others, rather than something Mr. Hanna believes. Still, if it is an act, it is unsettlingly convincing.
I've developed software professionally for both Linux and Windows, and I can't say there's a significant difference between them. Indeed, Linux might even have the edge; the dekstop APIs tend to be a little more developer-friendly than the ones in Windows.
I can't believe he's throwing down the gauntlet to the linux community - a group of people most stereotyped as having no lives outside of code and who are used to coding for free...
Madness.
Wow, that's quite possibly the stupidest challenge I've ever seen.
First of all, can any of your Microsoft-based programming languages produce an app that can run on Windows, Mac, and Linux WITHOUT PORTING ? No. Java can, however.
Second of all, all of the apps you wrote could be ported to Linux without very much trouble at all, via a new project called Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page).
And lastly, only about half of your apps were even useful... Polar bear tracker? That's funny for about 5 minutes, then you realize that it's in fact a waste of disk space and doesn't do anything useful whatsoever. The rocket app, yet again - fun for a few minutes, but then it gets old.
Now don't get me wrong - I'm not just flaming you. Just pointing out that your "challenge" is utterly ridiculous. A few of your apps are VERY useful (my favorite is the Window Dock app). Not to mention the large amount of source code you released, which can be referred to for other projects...
bwahahahaha.... that's funny hehehehehe
...It's been several years now, I had not made a very useful application since then that will benefited by a lot of computer users. I kind of have this routine.... if they're for a program I just refer them to few to choose from.
Anyway, you're really funny ;)
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