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'.
- Simian replacement. Create a similarity analyser that works at a syntax level. For example, just renaming your variables doesn't make a method different.
- 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