I always wanted to write a CF regex builder. Allow you to build reg ex's by adding options from a drop down etc, and preview what they look like.
Regards Dale Fraser http://learncf.com -----Original Message----- From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of haikal Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2007 9:53 PM To: cfaussie Subject: [cfaussie] CF mini-projects This might sound a bit off the wall, but please bear with me. I am in the position where I longer do any active CF development, but at the same time, I am interested in still keeping my CF skills up. The collective knowledge of CF and it's workings seem to very high within the CF community, as evidenced by the very small number of 'How do I...?' posts to this list recently, compared to when I first signed up two or three years ago. Most of the problems these days seem be very esoteric, edge case issues that more often than not are specific to a particular (hosting) environment. So I ask, do you have any cool ideas for small CF projects that I can take a crack at? Maybe it's something that you've wanted to do, but haven't had the time or inclination to try. Basically, here is what I'd expect from such a project: * Something that hasn't been done before * Something that appeals to the broader community * Something I can use to generate a blog post or maybe a small Google Code project * Something that's actually challenging; Not some undergrad project or stuff you'd pass off because it's too much grunt work for yourself * Something that can be accomplished in about 3 to 15 man hours . This is a somewhat loose requirement, I guess, as my idea of a solution may be more or less complicated than yours. I am a Java programmer and a Virgo, so I do have a tendency to somewhat over-engineer. But, if it's really interesting, I wouldn't mind committing a bit more time. If you're thinking why I'm doing this, let me lay out my 100% selfish reasons. (I'm feeling introspective, so you can skip this bit if you like) * Change of scenery. Learn the brush to master the sword and all that. Variety is the spice of life, and man cannot live on java alone. Even though I consider CF a second language, it is the language that I got my first professional start, so I do still have some attachment to CF. * I feel like writing about something. The ol' blog hasn't been updated in a while. I'm not really interested in paid work. That changes the playing field from 'fun' to 'work'. At this stage I'm only interested in doing paid programming at my day job ;) I'm also not particularly interested in doing any fiddling with with servers. Adding jars to classpaths is about as complicated as any mucking around with servers is going to get. Crossing over to java territory is OK. Asking for simple java wrappers is probably not. Unless you've tried and failed, and think I might have better luck. Don't expect me complete the whole thing though. I'll probably get as far as a factory CFC with some methods implemented, and will at this stage set the code free so you can submit patches :) (Hibernate is a 10 ton gorilla I don't want to deal with at this stage) So there's my hat in the ring. See if you can suggest something that might catch my interest! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
