why yes, of course we have velociraptors

Today instead of even thinking about the projects mentioned in the previous post I worked on HxNet. Now to Elaborate, HxNet was an inkling of an idea I had this morning and then flushed out almost fully with the help of zsizsi. Basically HxNet is a new peer to peer file sharing system. In my mind it works a bit like dropbox, only different… I think of it like this: the principles of bit torrent,  p2p networks (lime wire, etc), and dropbox all combined. Of course being the way I am I am just blinding creating a protocol to hopefully do what I desire. Here is the draft I am actively working on [Draft]. I am hoping to finish the majority of the base protocol either tonight or tomorrow morning, depending on how exhausted I become. After I finish writing the protocol I plan on actually implementing it to see if it even makes the slightest bit of sense. Since I know java best the first iteration of HxNet will be pure java. Guess thats all for the big new project. I welcome suggestions in regards to the protocol, especially since I probably have no idea what I am doing.

I just got back from a 3 day camping trip in Maine on Saturday. It was a jolly good time, although the bugs were nasty and my allergies made me sleep 12 hours a day. Anyway since it was camping and camping involves shunning electricity I was without power in my laptop for the 3 days. I did however have a book on objective-c programming for OSX. So I just read the book from cover to cover. I am hoping to implement some of what I learn in a few projects coming up. The two major projects I am thinking about are as follows:

Application 1: for OSX and eventually other platforms. A universal clipboard server. Basically you run the server on one computer and all computers that connect to this server share their clipboards.

Application 2: For IOS and possibly a website. This application requires a bit if a back story. Recently a game has become popular. “Yellow car I win” I am not sure of an actual name for it so that is what I shall call it. Anyway, to play all you have to do is say “Yellow car I win” whenever you see a yellow car. In this way you gain points and complete with friends.  The idea for the application is to take a picture of the yellow car and then upload it to a central server. This way friends can play together across the world. To make it interesting I would probably throw a few achievements in there. Who doesn’t like pointless awards? I might even link it into FaceBook or Twitter at some point.

Enough with my application ideas. The final bit of news is Second Life related. Since I am only involved with scripting inSL it is related to a new scripting project of mine. I am in the process of creating a sim scanning system. The display system is almost complete however their are a few annoying scaling bugs which I am in the process of working out. The system is currently deployed in The Solarian Republic, which is run by my friend RaithSphere.

Guess thats all the interesting stuff.