What are you building/designing/coding?

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charlieharper

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Surely not every professional developer purely sticks with just their day jobs… Most of us got into Development because they wanted to build things or solve problems. The best thing is to see the whole process of how that little bit of imagination grows into something that actually works.
Although I’ve always been into Tech stuff and familiar with basic web design and stuff, but it wasn’t untill me and my brother decided to solve a problem that I had when I lived abroad for the last 5 years and came up with this idea to solve a problem I’ve always came across having to travel on a ****ty green passport. I then pushed myself to learn python & django to be able to build backend stuff, bringing me a step closer to being a full stack web developer.

That’s when https://www.thatvisa.com/ came along, as it solves the problem of figuring out where to go to when you are with friends on different passports. (Also did about 12k views last month, so very stoked!)

And sure I'm not the only one who built stuff out of passion in my free time?

What have you built in the past and/or are currently working on? (Personal blogs are welcome)
 
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Created my own Time Tracking / Jobcard / ERP / Management / Admin system that is integrated with SAGE. Client signature capturing, asset/vehicle tracking via GPS (Pulsit). Also, pretty much automated my whole month end process for my business. Cut my admin time from a couple of days down to a few minutes. As a result, I have no need to employ an admin/accounts lady. So saved a pretty penny there.

Might have some commercial value??

Techs used:
SQL
ASP.NET MVC & WebApi
.NET wrapper for SAGE API (Got it on the web, but made a lot of customizations)
HTML5/JQuery
And a couple I cant remeber of the top of my head
 
Also busy with a bit of home automation with a public access (for myself only) side to control/manage/view all connected appliances/alarm etc. Using arduino boards & shields. Still in heavy experimental stages thought.

And I pretty much code/dev on a "as needed" basis. So when something gets to tedious to do manually, I try to automate :whistle:
 
My most recent worth mentioning project is https://www.Flyckerlink.com

You can link and control IoT based microcontrollers to automate some stuff in your home and make them controllable via the internet.

It's an Ubuntu VPS running the standard LAMP stack (PHP, MYSQL, Apache) and the Mosquitto MQTT server. I developed it so that anyone can register and use it. It even generates ES8266 code to be compiled on an Arduino IDE for you.

Since I got an Amazon Echo I lost interest in it, I don't need it anymore, Don't know what to do with it either. And Don't really want to get rid of it because I put allot of time in it but its costing me a monthly fee.

If anyone is interested you can take the hosting over or we can try and make a backup of it to be used on a new VPS. (Dont want money for it)
 
Home automation, Java MQTT Raspberry Pi and ESP8266 project
Emergent behaviour projects - Boids (JavaScript)
Cellular automata - a Game of Life implementation (JavaScript)
2D maze generation and solving project (Java)
 
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Learning PHP... and designing 2 or 3 websites that may come in handy on the internet.
 
FuzzyOvedrive - DSP plugin, provides saturation, colouring. Working on reverb modelling and signal phasing (c++, with some asm)
 
Busy with an app voice control the porn viewing experience on any device. Essentially a hands-free "next video" type thing. Gonna make millions I bet...
 
I run MorzAviation. It provides courses and mock exams for student pilots. I also have some mobile apps for aviation that I'm working on.
 
I don’t do any coding outside of work anymore. Makes for a 1 dimensional life. Music - guitar , model making, wine making.
 
Batista said:
I prefer not to code outside of my job, so I will just say im rewriting our import web service that accepts orders from suppliers.Standard web service with a c# GUI.Only a couple million rands of products a day goes through :whistle:
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Batista said:
I prefer not to code outside of my job, so I will just say im rewriting our import web service that accepts orders from suppliers.Standard web service with a c# GUI.Only a couple million rands of products a day goes through :whistle:
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I worked on the largest RFID implementation in the southern hemisphere which only cost R5 billion :whistle:
 
I worked on a web service that got no hits. Because why ? No one hits me!
 
Do you produce video? Are you a YouTube Vlogger?
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