An age old tale, of how there are not enough hours in the day to do everything that one would want.
I worked a little bit late tonight, not too late. I drove home and started to clean up the kitchen as to be able to start cooking dinner. Before I knew it dinner was over and it was 10:30. I wanted to do a little programming tonight, but that was not in the cards.
So I am doing the next best thing, I guess, a blog post.
I had the chance to chat with Jeremy about my idea of a side project. It is something that I think solves a problem, nothing that will change the world. But something that if designed properly, could have a decent ‘Freemium’ structure, for future ‘monetization’ and even if it doesn’t take off, I know that I will use it.
The VB client application that I wrote for Hashserver.com comprises a number of the routines that I need to be able to build my next application.
There are a number of things that I will need to learn how to write in VB.NET. The funny thing about using VB.NET is that, well I don’t know it very well. I am fairly certain that my attempts at building this new application will take longer than they would any seasoned VB programmer. But I am not necessarily going for speed.
I want to build the app not only for the fact that I will find it useful, or that others might as well, but to learn a new language. I briefly thought about trying to learn some JAVA, that way the app could be more of an applet and be OS independant. But, I think that might take all of the fun out of it for me, JAVA is very alien from any language that I have used before.
I mean, in regards to what one might consider the core of the application I am going to write, I have already written the prototype in PHP. Which has been the language that I have been using for the last seven years I think. But the thing is, the application needs to be a client-side application, as to avoid scaling issues that would otherwise result from centralizing the application on Jules (or any other server).
There are of course drawbacks to distributing client-side software vs keeping it server-side (ie webware), but I am thinking the drawbacks are not going to present enough of a problem to negate me building it.
Well, it is about that time, where I should have turned into a pumpkin 40 minutes ago.
Laterz
