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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / NANY 2010 - The Event Concludes

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2010, 05:34 AM »

NANY 2010 has just completed...

2010 has dawned with 26 new applications for the New Year! Congratulations to all our coders and members who have worked so hard to make NANY 2010 a success.

A full wrap of the Event will be coming shortly, but just to whet your appetite, the 26 Successful Entries in this year's NANY are:
General Interest Entries

• Anuran (1.0.12): A really nicely done, professional, rotating, automatic-prompting personal text log  - great for keeping track of projects you are working on or taking quick notes.
• What's My Share? (1.0): Have you ever needed to divide up an expense among a group of people? Or split up some reward? The What's My Share online web page uses javascript to make it easy.  Clever, easy to use, and elegant.
• Piggy Banks (1.0.1 ): Neat rainy-day-type fund tracker with a twist.
• ClipTrap (1.0.0): Minimalist aggregator of text copied to the clipboard - simple but useful.
• Bestimate (1.0.1): A small utility designed to help you become more accurate and realistic about your predictions and promises - just a fun little tool for those of us who tend to be overly optimistic about our abilities.
• SubDiv (1.0): Automatically sort files into subfolders based on date - no options, nothing fancy - but useful for people with folders full of unsorted images or other files.

Plugins for Find and Run Robot (FARR)

• FarrWebMetaSearch (0.9.1): A powerful FARR plugin used to query results from a web page live as you type and display them in list form.
• FARRSpell: A slick plugin for FARR that will spellcheck words and list synonyms.
• FARR Plugin ProcessInfo (1.0.0): A FARR plugin to display information about running processes.

Game Prototypes

• Leap of Faith (1.2009.12.31): A cute little platformer game with no enemies.
• Twigatelle (0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1): Twigatelle is a pachinko-style game that Twiggles (of the Head in the Clouds web comic) is developing in order to make $1million or more from winning the NANY competition. No-one has yet dared to correct his misunderstanding of how NANY works.

Special Purpose

• Page Countster: A professional network printer management tool which reports on ink levels and more.
• LittleRunner (1.0): An easy to use runner's database.
• Multiboot ISO Maker (Alpha 7): A serious tool for making sophisticated multi-bood cds.
• Create Dummy File (1.001): Creates files of varying size - specialized for filling up removable usb drives for security reasons.
• Startup Bully (1.0.0.2): Removes Startup folder shortcuts made by misbehaving applications
• SwoopoSpy (0.85): Spy on your Swoopo Auctions
• TrayUpTime: A system tray icon which shows the system up time as a tooltip.
• j2key: A small autohotkey app that lets you map your typical 10-button joypad (think dualshock clone) to keyboard keys.
• DupFind (0.9): A simple cross-platform gui duplicate file finder (written in Python -- source only download).
• OMF (1.0): A new website detailing an open specification for restaurant menus so they can be easily shared, searched and used.
• Library Management System (0.7):  A python powered, browser-based application for library management (has some pre-requisites).
• Crush MCP (1.0): An early prototype of a security tool to report on running processes.
• Artwinauto BlitzType (0.9): An early prototype of an auto-completion typing tool.
• Reimbursement Tracker (0.3.5): Early version of a tool to help manage a list of reimbursements, with support for printing to a thermal printer.
• fenixContacts (0.9pre2): Early version of a customisable contacts book

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - Press

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2010, 03:04 AM »

http://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/nany/

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: Leap of Faith

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on January 01, 2010, 12:04 AM »

However the title of the game is spelled incorrectly on the YouTube page. Whoever is in charge of the YouTube account, will you please correct that for me? Thanks!

-Deozaan (December 31, 2009, 11:37 PM)

Humble apologies: fixed now.

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Living Room / Re: How can we market Donationcoder.com better in 2010?

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2009, 10:31 PM »

I think it's very important not to get caught up in semantics with this. It doesn't matter what you call it: marketing, promotion, telling your friends, posting on forums -- it's all essentially the same thing. As mouser said, you can't survive without other people knowing about you and what you're doing.

What we're really discussing is the balance, and that's the reason people lean toward "promotion" over "marketing", or another term over some other term: each term carries a preconceived idea of the balance between the marketing bit and the other bit (whatever it is that you do).

Our other bit, as zane said, for DC includes:

There are lots of assets, but they start with developers and members. Among the software offered, the contests, the free-wheeling discussions, the software discounts

-zridling (December 31, 2009, 03:46 PM)

This is why we're here. As mouser said, if we lose our focus on these things we lose the reason for our dc community. But if we don't have some sort of marketing/promotion/sharing the joy we'll lose the dc community too. Any closed community is doomed, but we're not closed... we have crawlers indexing our site that will come up in web searches. The question about that (passive) marketing/promotion/allowing people to find us is, is it achieving what we need; or is something more required?

Reflecting on what you're doing and how successful it has been is a worthwhile exercise, and I welcome zane's question. It may not be the best subject for general discussion though.

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Final Release: FarrWebMetaSearch

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2009, 07:32 AM »

I'm afraid I have no time to look into the launching problem before the year ends. So 0.9.1 is my final NANY release.

-phitsc (December 31, 2009, 07:22 AM)

What are you talking about: you've got another 21 hours before the whistle blows!!! 

Seriously: Thanks for this: it's a great plugin that's lots of fun!!

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / NANY 2010 - Update December 31st

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2009, 04:14 AM »

T'was the night before New Year, when all through the forum
we were all waiting patiently with a modicum of decorum.
There were lots of Pledges, and suggestions too
and the number of Teasers just grew and grew.

The Coders were all busy, they were finishing their Apps
burning the midnight oil and probably near to collapse,
but we're all here to celebrate the start of a New Year
with the wonderful efforts of our NANY Volunteers.

So here's to all our members, who were involved in the Event
who coded and tested, and volunteered 101 percent,
who suggested and commented and gave their requests
and made this year's NANY Event another success!

...with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore:

The NANY Challenge is an annual Challenge at DonationCoder where coders of all levels are challenged to pledge a New Application for the New Year and release it on January 1, 2010: and we're nearly there!! Tomorrow is the big day when the full list of Successful Entries will be released!

As the poem says, it's the night before New Year when all the NANY 2010 Challenge Entrants will be submitting their Entries! It's a very busy and exciting time on the NANY Boards and you can literally watch as the Teasers are converted into Releases.

• 27 Pledges from our brave coders
• 7 Teasers yet to be converted to a Release
• 15 Entries loaded onto the NANY Board

Twigatelle Update
Twiggles has just about completed his NANY 2010 entry: Twigatelle. Thanks to Head in the Clouds for allowing us this view into the whole NANY process!

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 RELEASE: Artwinauto BlitzType

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 31, 2009, 03:39 AM »

  Thanks!!

  Bad timing!! I'm so busy right now...

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: "What's My Share?"

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 30, 2009, 09:00 PM »

you never would want to normalize a list with * entries unless you wanted to remove them?

except possibly as step 1 of a process whereby you expected to do further tweaking of shares.

-mouser (December 30, 2009, 08:55 PM)

The tweaking concept is interesting: I wondered if slider controls might make that easier? Especially on the * Entries (which would make them something other than *)

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: "What's My Share?"

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 30, 2009, 08:52 PM »

The alert box does say what's happening... just not that the * entries will be zeroed out.

Essentially what happens when you normalize a list with * entries, is that it removes, or zeros, those entries.

Really, Normalizing and * entries are functionally opposite: you never would want to normalize a list with * entries unless you wanted to remove them?

  Which basically means I'm understanding it a bit better now...

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: "What's My Share?"

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 30, 2009, 07:53 PM »

This is great! 

One small issue: the Normalize button mucks up any rows that are proportioned with a "*"

Unnormalized:


Normalized:

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 30, 2009, 05:50 PM »

Is there a way to retrieve the original search string and use it in the Path?

For example, in the following I'm grabbing the Quick Definitions from OneLook, but the path should be to the original search path, ie

[Select]

http://www.onelook.com/?w=

That is, double clicking on any of those results should open http://www.onelook.com/?w=mug

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 30, 2009, 08:33 AM »

This is seriously good fun...

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 29, 2009, 04:47 PM »

I've uploaded a preliminary release for anyone interested to try out.

-phitsc (December 29, 2009, 03:36 PM)

Cool  But now I have to wait till I get home from work to play

Do you have a RedMine project for this so that people can upload new searches? 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pre-Release: Twigatelle

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 28, 2009, 09:23 PM »

So thank you for the reminder. I shall now proceed to panic.

-timns (December 28, 2009, 11:01 AM)

No, no, no...

After me... Breathe in... and hold... breathe out... relax...

repeat as necessary...

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Release: Open Menu Format

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 28, 2009, 09:11 PM »

I'm hoping I can get this up and running in a week - going to try for Jan 1st but not sure I can make it.

-Veign (December 28, 2009, 06:32 PM)

  Of course you can!!! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Infix PDF Editor now at version 4

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 28, 2009, 06:38 AM »

 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / NANY 2010 - Update December 28th

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 27, 2009, 11:44 PM »

The NANY Challenge is an annual Challenge at DonationCoder where coders of all levels are challenged to pledge a New Application for the New Year and release it on January 1, 2010.

The NANY 2010 Challenge climax is just around the corner -- all the Entrants will be putting the finishing touches onto their Entries and submitting them! It's a very busy and exciting time on the NANY Boards: all our coders are working extremely hard -- why not drop by and encourage them with some feedback?  Currently NANY 2010 has:

• 27 Pledges from our brave coders
• 12 Teasers yet to be converted to a Release
• 10 Entries for us to try from the NANY Board

Twigatelle Update
Twiggles is battling the competing demands of a NANY Entrant over Christmas as he works to get his NANY 2010 entry, Twigatelle, ready for the big unveiling on New Years Day. Thanks to Head in the Clouds for allowing us this view into the whole NANY process!




Teasers / Entry Focus
SubDiv 0.0
SubDiv was built to organize folders that are constantly being filled with new content, such as a 'Downloads' folder.  When you are continually throwing files from the Internet into a folder on your computer, that folder becomes very disorganized (at least for me).  SubDiv will take those files and put them into folders based on the day they were created.

Features

• Portable

Anuran 1.0.12
Anuran is rotating, automatic-prompting personal text log.  The original idea came from a request from doctorfrog on this thread.


Features

• Completely configurable.
• AnuVu log viewer included.
• Log files are standard text files.  No proprietary formats.

Piggy Banks 1.0.1
Piggy Banks makes it easy for you to keep track of 'fund' accounts where a little money is put away each day.  For example, your family might decide that every day $1 will be put aside to help pay for a new board game.  Piggy Banks will make it easy to see how much money is saved up in the board game fund at any time.


Features

• Track as many funds as you would like.
• Real-time updating of funds and projected completion dates as you adjust the data.
• Export to CSV option.
• Icon turns from a silver medal to a gold medal when your fund completes.  Wooo.

FARRSpell
This will be a plugin for Find and Run Robot to help people who quickly need to spell a word or look up synonyms.


Features

• Selectable Dictionary

Mini NANY Submissions
Mini NANYs are submissions that don't fit under the same stringent rules that a normal NANY does and can include scripts and other submissions that don't really fit into NANY proper. Now just about anyone can enter a NANY!!

• DisablePortableAppSplashScreen: Disables the splash screen of Portable Apps

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: The Garden Social Club

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 27, 2009, 10:54 PM »

CodeTrucker has emailed me that due to unforeseen circumstances he won't be able to complete NANY this year, so I've withdrawn his Teaser for him.

Maybe later CodeTrucker you can put us out of our misery and tell us what you had in mind?? 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: Crush MCP (Master Control Program)

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 27, 2009, 08:44 PM »

Any idea what might be different about your rig? The VPC is SP3 & the Wife's is SP2 (oops...)

-Stoic Joker (December 26, 2009, 10:23 AM)

No, mine's pretty stock standard XP SP3

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FenixContacts

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 27, 2009, 08:02 PM »

Small update for those who can't wait: first alpha version on Redmine

-fenixproductions (December 27, 2009, 03:49 PM)

  I'm playing with it now...

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: Crush MCP (Master Control Program)

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 26, 2009, 03:05 AM »

A friend tested MCP yesterday on Windows XP professional. He wasn´t able to see any text in the windows. They should be instantly filled with texts.
Perhaps someone with XP could load the executable and write some lines about its behaviour? (see attachment in previous post)

-Crush (December 24, 2009, 01:21 PM)

Sorry: I was just able to get back to this (I wasn't sure if you got adequate answers to you question amongst the language debate)... Seems OK on my XP Pro machine...



The "Internet Infos" was interesting... 6 browser windows, some 404's. It may be better to test the links first then provide links/information in a separate window?

Kill Process didn't have any problems with MCP.exe 

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FenixContacts

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 25, 2009, 06:52 PM »

I went to the redline site, registered, but it won't log me in; says "Invalid". And yes - I definitely am using the same username and password that I created.

-J-Mac (December 25, 2009, 01:02 PM)

You get an activation email that activates your account first. I think GMail swallowed mine as spam for a while...

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Teaser: FarrWebMetaSearch

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 24, 2009, 04:23 AM »

  I can't stand this any longer: I want to play!!!!!   

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - Prizes

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 24, 2009, 12:26 AM »

can you make me a version of that where the black areas are saved as transparent in the image format?

-mouser (December 24, 2009, 12:17 AM)

Is that big enough? I was really just mocking it up...

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 - Prizes

« Last post by Perry Mowbray on December 23, 2009, 11:45 PM »

maybe we can just use some simple text in this case, like "DonationCoder.com | N.A.N.Y. 2010"

-mouser (December 23, 2009, 11:30 PM)