Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-02-05 Thread Hall, Leam
Yeah... We're looking at a trip to Romania to help with marginalized groups. Much shorter but as life impacting. Leam From: Edward Potter Sent: Fri 05-Feb-10 08:16 To: NYPHP Talk Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects. Go to idealist.org Search Jobs/Volunteer Take a g

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-02-05 Thread Edward Potter
Go to idealist.org Search Jobs/Volunteer Take a gig in India/Tibet/Nepal for 6 months. Probably will change your life, for the rest of your life. Then come back and write code. But it will be different. Guaranteed. One of many gigs (zillions) on Idealist.org: >>> Teaching English to Tibetan

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-02-04 Thread Gary Mort
I'd love to go to a test fest once a year. Do you have another planned for this year? On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:12 AM, Hans Zaunere wrote: > > In addition to what others said... Write unit tests for PHP. Fix bugs > > in PHP's C source code. Knock out documentation bugs for PHP. > > +1 for uni

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-02-04 Thread Hans Zaunere
> In addition to what others said... Write unit tests for PHP. Fix bugs > in PHP's C source code. Knock out documentation bugs for PHP. +1 for unit testing for PHP. We held a successful testfest in May and had planned on making it a more frequent occurrence (it's actually fun - really). While

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-23 Thread Daniel Convissor
Hi Anthony: In addition to what others said... Write unit tests for PHP. Fix bugs in PHP's C source code. Knock out documentation bugs for PHP. --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-21 Thread Glenn Powell
Some of the time, some of the coders code the clients ideas and dreams. Some of the time, some of the coders code their own ideas and dreams. Here's to the dreamers and inventers, clients and coders alike. :) Glenn On Jan 20, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: I have a large amount of

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-21 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Kristina Anderson wrote: > That said, I think ALL of us on this list do have a love for programming > and probably would continue to do it even if we did not have to, in > whatever capacity, albeit maybe some of us for only a few hours a week! :) Yeah, but I suspect we'd be w

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-21 Thread Anthony Wlodarski
Well I got bored and built Ubuntu/Deb packages for MongoDB as I am exploring it more with PHP. I have the 32/64 bit versions hosted on my site at: http://anthonyw.net/mongodb-deb-package. It was quite interesting learning dpkg. Also if you encounter any errors during install please let me know a

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-21 Thread Paul A Houle
Gary Mort wrote: Here are my backburner ideas: A jobs seeker's database to store leads[think organizing all those craigslist, monster, etc job postings], track followups and rate quotes, and also rate jobs search companies[there are some recruiters that never follow up with you.others tha

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-21 Thread Brian O'Connor
A few years ago, I was in the exact same situation, and I did something similar, I posted on this very group: http://marc.info/?l=nyphp-talk&m=116460542719740&w=2 There were a lot of great suggestsions then that still hold great value today. I've accomplished, and learned a whole lot since I post

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-21 Thread Kristina Anderson
> > I think we all realize that clients pay for projects. For some people, that > is inspiration enough. For others, it is not. Maybe their clients don't have > projects they find interesting. Maybe they are looking for a diversion. > > To put it anther way, we work for others to enable us to do

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-21 Thread Justin Dearing
> There's a solution for that, you can do like the rest of us have, namely > get so far in debt that you can't sit around doing nothing, but instead are > forced to work. > > I find that clients bring more than just inspiration for my work. :-) > I think we all realize that clients pay for projec

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-21 Thread tedd
At 3:08 PM -0500 1/20/10, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: I have a large amount of free time on my hand and was sitting around the house trying to come up with an idea for a piece of software that people would actually use. Unfortunately the blank canvas that is my mind is still blank. I guess it wo

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-21 Thread Gary Mort
Here are my backburner ideas: A jobs seeker's database to store leads[think organizing all those craigslist, monster, etc job postings], track followups and rate quotes, and also rate jobs search companies[there are some recruiters that never follow up with you.others that work in the same com

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread I Dream in PHP
January 20, 2010 4:17 PM Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: How about a phpMyAdmin clone for MongoDB? Like this? http://www.phpmoadmin.com/ Wow, that was quick! ;-)

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread David Krings
On 1/20/2010 3:08 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: I have a large amount of free time on my hand and was sitting around the house trying to come up with an idea for a piece of software that people would actually use. Unfortunately the blank canvas that is my mind is still blank. I guess it would be

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: > > How about a phpMyAdmin clone for MongoDB? Already have two underway: http://www.phpmoadmin.com/ http://rad-dev.org/lithium_mongo -- Mitch ___ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Anthony Wlodarski
Yeah I know I just found that link myself while doing research and talking with fellow developers. Back to the drawing board. -Anthony ___ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyph

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Fernando Gabrieli
What about Selenium/PHPUnit? you might be able to extend it to include new test features, i'm running it around 0.5 times per new method :) some others might help in telling "todo" features On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Chris Snyder wro

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Chris Snyder
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: >> >> How about a phpMyAdmin clone for MongoDB? > > > Like this? http://www.phpmoadmin.com/ Wow, that was quick! ;-) Oh well, Anthony, keep looking. _

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: >> I have a large amount of free time on my hand and was sitting around the >> house trying to come up with an idea for a piece of software that people >> would actually use.  Unfortun

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Paul McGrane
You can always try to solve or improve an internal work flow issue...like how you handle invoicing, or tracking time for your billable tasks...you may come up with a solution that not only streamlines your workflow, but can benefit others as well. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Justin Dearing w

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Justin Dearing
If you know C, care about soap and interacting with .NET, you might want to hack at the PHP soapclient. http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50698 That code code use a bit of a cleanup. I've been trying to hack at it for a while. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: > I have a

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Hans C. Kaspersetz
> > How about a phpMyAdmin clone for MongoDB? > +1 Hans K ___ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Chris Snyder
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: > I have a large amount of free time on my hand and was sitting around the > house trying to come up with an idea for a piece of software that people > would actually use.  Unfortunately the blank canvas that is my mind is still > blank.  I

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Ben Sgro
I try to think about things that are a PITA - and how software can fix that. Maybe its simply automating a process for myself - or something larger, like a full blown site for this or that. I think the best ideas come when your not really trying - but also, if your attempting to brainstorm, th

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Hall, Leam
MongoDB based PHP tool that gathers news on Haiti and publishes it to interested parties. Then you can expand it later. Leam From: Anthony Wlodarski Sent: Wed 20-Jan-10 15:08 To: NYPHP Talk Subject: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects. I have a large amount of free time on my hand and

[nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Anthony Wlodarski
I have a large amount of free time on my hand and was sitting around the house trying to come up with an idea for a piece of software that people would actually use. Unfortunately the blank canvas that is my mind is still blank. I guess it would be called "coders block" akin to writers block. How