Project-A-Week club 5

Posted by Mark 09/05/2011 at 23h21

The first rule of Project-A-Week club is:

Finish the damn project.

The second rule of Project-A-Week club .. well, you know.

We'll probably get something a bit more official up, but the inaugural members are:

  • @shapr
  • @emson
  • @mwotton
  • @hydo
  • @jfredett

I'll be working on getting predictive up and running on my server, porting it to snap or yesod as I go.

The other guys can chime in on the comments.

POSTSCRIPT:

We are honoured to be joined by the Don himself:

 I'm writing a repa tutorial. Cult of productivity, do it!

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  1. jfredett 10/05/2011 at 00h21

    Alright, this week for me, it’s a simple project. A copy-sensitive-files script.

    The idea is thus:

    Read in a .gitignore file, look for a comment of the form “##!” This marks the beginning of a list of “safe” files, these files should not be included in the git repo (as they are in the gitignore file), but they should included in the “safebox” file. On each commit, this script will check to see if any of the files listed has been modified, if they have, then it regenerates and stores the “safebox” file in a backup folder – generating the safebox is simple, every file should be encrypted with some suitably powerful encryption algorithm.

    Pretty basic. Some interesting concerns (making sure the encryption is powerful enough to not be breakable, enforcing good passwords). Whole thing will be in Bash.

    The reasoning is simple, I need such a script for a larger project (automating the setup of an arch linux install)

  2. shapr 10/05/2011 at 04h44

    This week for me, it’s also a simple project, I’m going to make a tutorial and shell script to ease 802.15.4 sniffing with freakduinos and wireshark in Linux.

    I’ll also include an Arduino sketch to alternate between broadcasting and sniffing 802.15.4 packets, with LEDs to show activity or lack thereof.

    All of this will be designed to work with two freakduinos so you can test send and receive.

    I’ll be building on this in later projects, I hope to sniff and dissect smart meter traffic.

  3. Mark 10/05/2011 at 11h59

    They both sound awesome. Shae, would you be cool with me talking to my boss about your project? He runs an electronics site at littlebirdelectronics.com - I’m sure he’d love to link your project when you’re finished.

  4. shapr 10/05/2011 at 14h04

    @Mark

    Sure, it’s fine by me… clearly part of my weekly project is setting up gitit on the front page of ScannedInAvian.com!

  5. clint 10/05/2011 at 16h37

    I’m going to get my pet web library/framework out for better or worse.

    I think I’m going to spend the first few weeks finishing up and getting package-able some of those poor forgotten half-implemented projects that I abandoned.

    I’m working on the docs for said… ugh, I hate using the word… framework.

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