BeachProjects

At ThoughtWorks occasionally a developer will not be assigned to a project, and is hence 'on the beach'. So far, I've been 'on the beach' all of three days. When I was on the beach, I read some of the Spring 2.0 manual and created a COBOL copybook to Java code generator. I'm always thinking of projects that would require at least a day, which I hope to work on next time I'm 'on the beach'.

• Volunteer for Kiva.org
• Create my 43Places J2ME App mobile check-in app.
• Create a VoiceXML app.
• FixStyle project - like CheckStyle, but it fixes the things CheckStyle complains about.
  • Seems that Uncrustify may already do this.
• Streams library for Java. Create utility classes like 'tr', 'sed,' and 'awk' which operator on streams.
• FreeTDS like database driver for Ruby, written in pure Ruby.
• OpenId module for Gallery2
• Create an ANTLR language target for D.

Completed

• Simian replacement. Create a similarity analyser that works at a syntax level. For example, just renaming your variables doesn't make a method different.
  • I've worked with Do Kien to his his same project to work as part of an automated build. The result is an Google hosted open source project at http://code.google.com/p/same-code-duplication-detector/.