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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: The Event Closes

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2011, 07:39 PM »

Anything submitted in the next 24 hours or so should be fine -- we dont have to be so strict
-mouser (January 01, 2011, 01:20 PM)

Mouser, thank you for being so unstrict :-) I have just posted the first release to the thread.
-tranglos (January 01, 2011, 07:28 PM)

That's what I like to see!! Thanks: am playing with it now...

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: The Event Closes

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2011, 06:55 PM »

A "NANY" installer would be interesting. Something to install all NANY software.

But that's probably a bad idea unless people all create an installer that installs to */NANY 2011/author/program name.
-Renegade (January 01, 2011, 12:45 PM)

I was originally hoping to be able to use dcUpdater to do the job. Still could I guess, but I was hoping for groups in dcUpdater (so you could select "NANY 11")

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: The Event Closes

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2011, 06:51 PM »

NANY is awesome, NANY is great, give us more NANY! (Waiting ~363 days is going to be a pain though...)
-worstje (January 01, 2011, 02:41 PM)

Well, next year (at this stage) will probably be similar to this year... so it's more like 180 days

I must say, the software giveaway is an awesome surprise I hadn't at all counted on! Thanks for setting that deal up for us!

One question though... why several softwares with the same/similar purposes?
-worstje (January 01, 2011, 02:41 PM)

They all do something slightly different and in a different way and everyone's likes are different... as with all the give-aways it's beneficial to download a trial and see which one works best for you

_{P.S.: Kindly cease your manhandling of my first NANY app; Cautomaton is written without an i.}
-worstje (January 01, 2011, 02:41 PM)

Humble apologies... fixed

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: The Event Closes

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2011, 06:45 PM »

No fair counting by Australian time
-tranglos (January 01, 2011, 12:54 PM)

Actually in past NANY's I made it the last New Year's Day second on Earth (just before the date line, so after USA)... but we're being less strict about lots of things this year, so it's not a huge drama...

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Duplicate Photo Deleter

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2011, 11:08 AM »

I thought I did it right... but didn't match (can you remind me later for the files?)

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: The Event Closes

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2011, 10:56 AM »

And there is still a good chance the uncompleted apps and withdrawn pledges may result in apps at some point in the future, so while they can't be counted in the Jan 1 batch, they could be worth considering as a partial success somewhere down the line.
-app103 (January 01, 2011, 10:46 AM)

I definitely agree -- I didn't mean to exclude the Pledges and Teasers from "Success". A lot of work and thinking goes into a Pledge (let alone a Beta Teaser) which is not a waste and will more often than not find some sort of outcome in the future.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: The Event Closes

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2011, 10:36 AM »

Just wanted to add a huge THANK YOU to the DC community for helping make this year's NANY another amazing experience... and success!!

I think the new (longer) format worked well, certainly 47 Pledges over the event is an amazing number. 50% conversion rate (Pledges -> Releases) is maybe a little less than what I thought... but maybe that was due to the longer format too (longer time = bigger applications = more time for other things to impose: that was my problem) -- I'd be interested to hear your experiences

Although the Event has closed many entrants will continue to update their Entry, and the Teasers that didn't get to the Release stage by 1/1/11 hopefully will get finished in due course (mine included

)

We've got a great month ahead of us with lots of NANY's to keep us busy and a huge Software Give-Away!! Hope you enjoy it

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / NANY 2011 :: The Event Closes

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2011, 09:53 AM »

DonationCoder's
New Year
Software Celebration
UpdateGraphic - Cody.png

Welcome to DonationCoder's month long Super Celebration of Software!

N.A.N.Y. 2011
NANY '11 has closed and we're busily going through the entries with a fine tooth comb to package them up for the grand unveiling toward the end of January 2011. In the meantime you can see all the Entries on the NANY 2011 board.

We tried something new with this year's NANY: in an effort to maximise the fun and productivity of the event we decided to start NANY midway through the year giving the coders the ability to start the process early and aim to build a substantial new project. And it's certainly been exciting to see activity increase on the NANY board through the year. Many coders posted Teasers both to whet the appetites of the members and to get feedback on their projects.

The end of the year is often a hectic time, which only increases the challenge to complete the NANY Entry. Some Pledges have been fulfilled early whilst others have had to be withdrawn due to other commitments and other Pledges have remained open or not progressed past the Teaser stage but will hopefully be developed later.

From my perspective NANY 2011 has been a wonderful success that has allowed greater flexibility in the Event. 47 Pledges through the year is huge, and to get 31 completed NANY's is an awesome achievement that the DC community can be very proud about!

Releases

Teasers (Unfinished - though look out for updates and late completions)

Pledges (Unfinished)

Withdrawn Pledges

Huge Software Give-a-way

As part of the New Year Celebration we've been joined by some very generous software developers who are offering full licenses to their professional programmes! This software has been specially selected to enable our hard working coders (and their helpers) to produce high quality packages.

Help & Manual Pro: Documentation Authoring
Dr Explain: Help Authoring
Axialis IconWorkshop Professional: Icon Creation
Camtasia Studio 7: Screen recorder
BB FlashBack Pro: Screen recorder
Sagelight Image Editor: Graphics Editor

More details will be posted in the next couple of days...

A Word About DonationCoder

DonationCoder.com is a site for people who love computer software, and like the idea of supporting each other's work through donations - it's funded entirely by individuals who join the site. Since its founding in 2005, the site has grown steadily and has well over 200,000 registered members from around the world. Of course it's free to sign up at our site and join in on the community forums. Our DonationCredits system was designed to make it as easy as possible for users to make small donations to specific authors and fellow site members (read more about our DonationCredits here: https://www.donationcoder.com/Donate/Credits.php).

The programmers at DonationCoder.com are dedicated to providing professional quality software and professional quality support; other DonationCoder.com members are active in the forums reviewing and discussing all types of computer and software issues.

The New Apps for the New Year event was started as a fun way of celebrating the New Year. Dubbed NANY (New Apps for the New Year), this experiment has become a yearly tradition on the site, and represents the playful and generous spirit of the site and the people who visit it. The event celebrates the joy of programming and is open to coders of any ability, whether they are regular members of the site or not. All participants receive a mug featuring our beloved bird/duck mascot Cody -- there are no winners or losers.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Duplicate Photo Deleter

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2011, 08:45 AM »

If you're going to continue adding features... one I'd like to see is the ability to test just the image data, not the whole file (which will include EXIF data too)... once I've geotagged my images it messes the matching up

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 :: Official Update Thread

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 04:09 PM »

It's the last gasp for this year's NANY and as the clock slowly ticks down to New Year CST Time... it's exciting to see the Little Red Release Line wiggle it's way up the graph:

NANY Day.png

At the end of the year (in about 8 hours at the time of writing) NANY will close and we'll start evaluating and sorting the entries, which we'll unveil Mid-January.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Cautomaton

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 03:22 PM »

So hereby please consider v0.8.3 the official entry for NANY 2011.
-worstje (December 31, 2010, 12:49 PM)

Thanks!

Fully polished programmes are always going to be an issue... I think it's wonderful that you've got to this point!

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: JottiQ

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 03:16 PM »

nany deadline is midnight CST:
http://www.timeandda...imezones/na/cst.html
-mouser (December 31, 2010, 02:42 PM)

Next year we must get a countdown ticker...

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Living Room / Re: Dreamy Monitor...

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 05:50 AM »

I gave up on wanting brightness levels to be triggered by an event as I realised that the "working" monitor would simply be the one I'm staring at, i.e. the computer has no idea what my eyeballs are doing.
-nudone (December 31, 2010, 05:05 AM)

It'd be neat if you could use a webcam to do that
-Perry Mowbray (December 31, 2010, 05:20 AM)

hahaha~! That was my first thought as well! Eye tracking... don't know how to do it, but it would be very cool!
-Renegade (December 31, 2010, 05:43 AM)

My logitech webcam zooms to keep me in frame...

You'd have to calibrate it, eh?...

Step One: Look at Monitor One
Step Two: Look at (the centre of) Monitor Two
Step etc: Look at...

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Living Room / Re: Dreamy Monitor...

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 05:20 AM »

I gave up on wanting brightness levels to be triggered by an event as I realised that the "working" monitor would simply be the one I'm staring at, i.e. the computer has no idea what my eyeballs are doing.
-nudone (December 31, 2010, 05:05 AM)

It'd be neat if you could use a webcam to do that

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Living Room / Re: Dreamy Monitor...

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 04:51 AM »

Well, I've found out how to adjust the brightness for ALL monitors... But that doesn't help too much... I'll keep looking into it, but it's going to be a tad hairy as I'm not really sure where I'm going on this one...
-Renegade (December 31, 2010, 04:39 AM)

This one supports multiple monitors: http://quickgamma.de/indexen.html

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Living Room / Re: Dreamy Monitor...

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 04:30 AM »

It sounds to me like enumerating the monitors is step 1. Next, keep the monitor with the mouse bright and dull the rest. Next (or in between), give the user a very small graphical UI that lets them "toggle" monitors brighter or darker permanently. It would be ideal in the taskbar notification area.
-Renegade (December 31, 2010, 04:20 AM)

That would work... I also think having windows "remembered" by class / title / text options would be handy. I tend to not keep the same windows on the same monitors and adjust my working environment (which monitor is the read and which is the work).

... I must invest in a better chair....

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Living Room / Re: Dreamy Monitor...

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 04:10 AM »

Perry, it was something i did consider posting a coding snack request about. i decided not to because of the drawback you mentioned, i.e. what defines the "working" monitor.
-nudone (December 31, 2010, 03:47 AM)

A hotkey for sticky window highlight?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: Web Badges

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 03:47 AM »

No you didn't miss them...

Would you mind attaching them to your OP? That means others can use as well

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Duplicate Photo Deleter

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 03:05 AM »

Made it in time.
-Renegade (December 31, 2010, 02:56 AM)

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Living Room / Re: So, when you're working, do you...

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 02:01 AM »

Like 40hz, once in the zone, I'm almost uncontactable...

When I'm concentrating, I'm almost completely oblivious to whatever is going on around me. So as long as I can work someplace where I won't get stepped on, or run over, I'm fine.
-40hz (December 29, 2010, 02:13 PM)

I have had workmates tap me on the shoulder asking "Have you heard anything in our conversation the last 5 minutes?"

Though, horribly and to my disgrace, I get somewhat grumpy when those who know how to, get into my head with unrelated questions to the one I'm working on...

I do like music playing, but like many others, the tougher the problem the quieter the music (and correspondingly... the more successful the louder the music

)

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Living Room / Re: Dreamy Monitor...

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2010, 01:48 AM »

1) lots of monitors equates to lots of light in your face. obvious really. but i never thought about it until my eyes starting aching. so, main monitor is now "normal" brightness and the other three are set to be quite dark. if your room is well illuminated then i doubt the monitor brightness will be an issue; i'm sat in a dark room, so having four "normal" bright monitors is similar to staring into a light bulb all day, i.e. not very clever.
-nudone (December 29, 2010, 07:16 AM)

There must be a way to script something like that... monitor with active window is brighter?

although that wouldn't work when you work on one and read on another...

And ergonomically... aren't you meant to have your eyes level with the centre of your monitor?

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