NANY 2017 Wrap-Up

[mouser]

The new year is here, which means it's time to wrap up the results of our NANY 2017 event.

What is NANY?  Since 2007 we have held an annual event that we call NANY (New Apps for the New Year), where we ask the coders who hang out on DonationCoder to create some new piece of free software and share it with the world on January 1st of the new year. NANY is really the funnest thing we do on this site, and it's one of the few times we can all play together.  There are no winners or losers, it's simply a celebration of programming and creating new software and sharing it with the world; everyone who participates gets a free commemorative coffee mug.


I'll start out with my own contributions to the event.  This year I was all in on Android, and released 6 new Android apps designed to run on phones or tables: Two diet-related apps, and four productivity utilities.

All of my apps are freely available on the Google Play Store here, or can be downloaded directly from their NANY forum threads below.

The two diet related Android apps that I wrote have a similar flavor, and are both attempts to come up with a minimalist approach to allowing you to have brief periods where you can pig out and eat whatever snacks you want, while ensuring you eat well most of the time.

The first is "Feast Day / Fast Day":

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[mouser]

I hope you will all join me in expressing our gratitude to all of the coders who contributed something this year.  It's especially fun to see some people participating for the first time.

I would like to ask folks to consider making a donation to any coders whose work you want to encourage. You can click on the gold coin next to the author's name on the first post of each thread above.  Or see the complete list of all participants: here.

And if you have not yet chosen to make a donation to the site, we could always use your donations to help pay for the mugs (about 20) that we will be sending out to each of the participants -- so please consider making a donation to the site 

[solaris65]

Thanks for the write-up, Mouser..much appreciated!  I really don't drop by here as much as I should, even though I tell myself this every time I get an email from here..still, I just want to say this really is a great forum and I enjoy reading the posts when I do visit.

That said, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who took part in this year's NANY..to each of you, your time and creativity is appreciated more than you might think.

For me, given my New Year's resolution is to loose weight, you're two diet apps are going to be put to the test..but I'm already leaning towards your "Feast Day / Fast Day" app as being my favorite, as I'm somewhat used to "Alternate-day fasting" and this app would help me doing just that.or something very similar to it, which would be really cool.

My thanks again for coding this and making it available to everyone..both of which are really appreciated.  I sometimes really envy folks like you who can code like this..I've tried a number of times to learn and I just don't seem to have the aptitude for it.

My extended thanks to everyone else who tool part, even though I may not actually get round to test everything that was produced for this year's event..regardless, you guys more than deserve our thanks at the very least for being so generous with your time and talents. 

Thank You. 

[mouser]

Thanks so much for your post Solaris! Don't be such a stranger!
And let me know if you have any ideas for the diet apps.

ps.
I somehow missed Ath's PDST Personal Development Score Tracker in my initial post; that has been corrected.

[rgdot]

Also great write up on Ghacks @ http://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/03/donationcoder-nany-2016-releases/

Thanks everybody

[tomos]

Enjoying trying out a few different ones today
Thanks for the overview mouser

Wondering if 'File Explorer proof of concept' does justice to DIA4 and DIA5 ?
Just trying them out -- I'm struggling with aspects -- not sure if that me or the software, but they seem pretty powerful (especially DIA5)

[mouser]

Wondering if 'File Explorer proof of concept' does justice to DIA4 and DIA5 ?

you might be right, i'll update.

[TWmailrec]

I noticed in earlier newsletters that an application: QuickJump 2016 by CJ Gingerich, was going to be submitted  in this year's N.A.N.Y. that failed to materialise by the finish.

I had written a similar application some months earlier, which included a few extra features.
I have since modified my program, "Tbl_Select", to operate in a broadly similar fashion, and it can be downloaded from:

http://twm.dcmembers.com/

Brief Description:

The program produces a Table which lists files, shortcuts or directories, from which a selection can be made, name or path copied, or Properties inspected. The displayed folder can also be passed via command line.
A Table Entry can be Run by a "Double-Click" on an entry, or selecting entry and pressing "Enter".
A home directory path is provided, and a menu of alternative paths can also be shown, where a path is passed using shortcuts.
A separate list of Sub-folders of the current folder can also be displayed and a selection made.
A filter for file selection based on extension is also provided, and two sort modes are available.
A folder Window can also be created from the displayed list.

If a shortcut to the program is pinned to the taskbar, numerous shortcuts can be available without taking space from  the taskbar.

[mouser]

Twmailrec! Why haven't you been sharing your software with us more regularly!?

Why don't you start a new thread in the NANY 2017 section with a screenshot, and I'll add this as a late entry NANY.

[wraith808]

I noticed in earlier newsletters that an application: QuickJump 2016 by CJ Gingerich, was going to be submitted  in this year's N.A.N.Y. that failed to materialise by the finish.

I'm actually using quickjump 2016 quite regularly.  Was there something else that was supposed to be added?  I thought it was done.  Perhaps it's because you thought it was supposed to be for this year's NANY?  It was for last years.

http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=42086.msg393759#msg393759

[TimmyMouse]

All of my apps are freely available on the Google Play Store here, or can be downloaded directly from their NANY forum threads below.

The two diet related Android apps that I wrote have a similar flavor, and are both attempts to come up with a minimalist approach to allowing you to have brief periods where you can pig out and eat whatever snacks you want, while ensuring you eat well most of the time.

The first is "Feast Day / Fast Day":

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[miva2]

Congratulations and many many thanks to everyone who participated in this NANY!

I don't think there is anything I really need right now but there are some interesting entries for sure. (though I should lose some weight)
There are some I should keep in mind

I just want to say I appreciate each and every one of you. Thanks!