I call it Big Project 1 because it was the first big project idea I had. For those of you in the know, Big Project 1 is the weather program (Big Project 2 is something entirely different, but still a program).
In any case, Big Project 1 has finally restarted after about 6 months of downtime. I finally perfected searching, so it actually only takes about 3-5 seconds to search for a city online, and set it as your default city. It now also has a Find City feature that automatically recenters on another city and updates the location data.
There are still a number of concerns however:
1. Searches are still not text-friendly. i.e. “Albuquerque” will return useful results. “Albuquerque, NM” not only will not, but will not even filter the “Albuquerque” results for New Mexico. This, thankfully, can be tweaked outside of the source code for the program.
2. More than two searches and certain weather data won’t be loaded. This may be a side-effect of the fact that I’m not yet using my cached weather data. Next step is to tune the format of the weather data I’m currently caching, so that I can not only send and receive more useful data besides current conditions, but also so that I can carry the burden and not have issues with FTP timeouts/numbers of sessions (which could be causing the current problem)
3. I’ve got to find sources of information for most of the useful bits (e.g. forecasts and history), especially for non-American sources, and then feed it into my custom format.
4. Some of my graphics are a bit concerning. I’ve got to not only design them, but… Well, if I detail THOSE OTHER issues here, it might be giving too much away… Suffice to say though, good 3D and imaging algorithms would be a big boon…
But at least some distinct positive progress is being made on Big Project 1. Big Project 2 (started last month) is on hold while I refocus on Big Project 1, but rest assured that it’s standing pretty well as well. It’s already got most, if not all, of the kinks in the tagging done, but now it needs a bit of database work with SQLite, and then, lastly, the GUI design… But it’ll probably be done quicker than Big Project 1, were I focused on it.
Meanwhile, smaller projects like Ierukana’s redux are also on hold, but will likely be so for a lengthier period of time. (Nevermind that it’s serving as a test ground to learn Rails anyway).
That’s all for what I’m doing computer-wise for now… Other projects might come along that are more work-related and school-related, but we’ll just have to wait and see.
Excuse me, can you give me Lzss tool and Model Viewer? Please!
I’ll see if I can’t put them up in a bit. I’ll make a post when I do.
Can you send me with mail?