Next project roundup

A list of potential next projects

Paint

A simple web based image manipulation tool. Operations like crop, rotate, resize. Could easily be client side with canvas doing the heavy lifting.

More about getting the UI right than anything else, although that's probably became I'm assuming that writing and composing manipulation functions is fairly easy.

Facebook import

Now under got a copy of my Facebook data I want to pull it into something that I can play with (at least enough to add to the blog).

An exercise in JSON parsing and data storage. How much of the data do I want/need to keep? What kind of access patterns am I going to have? Am I going to be able to access the data in ten years when I stumble across it again?

Server side Mal

I want to be able to make stupid toys on the site, from my phone. I could do it with HTML/JavaScript, or even C#, but typing those on the phone is irritating. Mal has much simpler syntax, and should be at least as powerful (and much more so if the rumours are true). Also, having the same client and server side scripting languages might be fun.

I did that C# version of Mal before, but I'm not happy with my choices and want to write it again, which is a bit of a job. (I could use mal-js and QuickJS, although I'd need to wrap them in a CGI interface.

Where does that leave me?

It's going to be Mal, I think. The Facebook thing needs a bit more thought (really, I need to convince myself either that SQLite is a sensible way to store data, or that it's worth my time to write a bunch of models for the data, and keep the original Facebook data), and I'm not looking forward to the UI stuff for paint (which, to be fair, is kind of a reason I should do it).

The only real problem with Mal is that, at least for the first but, one done it before and I'm not sure what I'll get out of it. Maybe I should cannibalise the existing mal-sharp code?