21Dec/110
Current Ideas
I'm alive! Tomorrow, after five exams in one week, I will finally be able to get my break over the Christmas. Three weeks without school. Oh, how I've longed for this. This will give me some well earned time to spend with my friends, some gaming and of course more programming. I have several interesting ideas which have piled up during the weeks. I wanted to list them here, wither for someone else to pick up or to get some feedback on what you guys think looks interesting. Enjoy!
HTML5 based, fully customizable, media player
Ok, I'm totally sold on HTML5. There are great opportunities with enabling these features in browsers. I got inspired by the wealth of desktop-like applications there are on the web, like Google Docs and Microsoft Office Spaces. The idea is to use the file and the sound API to create a media player which plays music stored on your local computer. There are several advantages with this. For example, you will never have to actively install or update your client, as long as you have an internet connection you will have the latest version in no time. Secondly, you could implement a login system and save all your settings between computers automatically. The most successful media players, (excluding iTunes and WMP since they are forced upon you), Winamp and Foobar have one thing in common, plugins. Therefore I would like to include the possibility to plugin custom javascript files to customize the players as they see fit.
EVE Online Tools
Since I play some EVE online I've been thinking about programming something with their very nice API which can access most data from characters and corporations in the game. I've been thinking about a bookkeeping system which tracks your transactions on the game and lets you organize and file them in different categories letting you see where your money comes from and what it goes to. Another idea is a corporation management system which let's you overview your corporation, including the bookkeeping system, viewing and check details about bookmarks, fittings, members, roles, tasks, etc. This is probably something that won't be realized soon.
An app for the new Spotify app system
Spotify has released their new app API to which allows developers to create apps for the new version of Spotify. Two friends have confronted me with a rather interesting ideas. One of them I can't really talk about at the moment but the other is a system which enables you to control Spotify from a remote location, like your phone, laptop or tablet. There already exists controls for stuff like play/pause but this would allow total remote control of Spotify, including searching, playlists and song selection.
That was all for the time being
Merry x-mas everyone!