{"id":23,"date":"2006-10-08T23:14:23","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T22:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2006-10-09T00:41:34","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T23:41:34","slug":"an-app-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"an app a day…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across a new site – AnAppADay.com<\/a><\/p>\n

I plan on writing an application everyday for 30 days straight. May the world benefit from the purposeful destruction of my personal life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s been going for a while – I think he’s only got a week or so left now – so there’s a decent collection of apps there now. And some of them are clever ideas. A good example is the Mouse Heat Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Compared with most of the development that I do at work<\/a> – where everything is carefully considered and designed and planned, there’s something appealing about this sort of approach. I wonder what sorta stuff we<\/a> could come up with if we had 30 days to try as many ideas as we could.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I fancied giving it a go – writing an app from start to finish in a single evening – so tried writing a small app for work. Based on an original idea that I admittedly had a little while ago, the app is a screensaver for my desktop PC which lets the people that I work with know where I am when I’m away from my desk. <\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

It collects together information from my Outlook diary, my instant-messaging client, and operating-system idle-time. The idea is that when I’m away from my desk, the people who sit near me will know where I am and when I’m likely to be back. Or if someone comes round to see me when I’m away, my computer can let them know where I am. <\/p>\n

I’ve written screensavers in Java<\/a> before, so decided to write this one in C# instead. It was interesting to figure out how to get a Windows screensaver working, and write the different interfaces for my PIM<\/a> and instant messager.<\/p>\n

Could I come up with something different tomorrow night?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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