A lot of us spend summer time working on a side project, be it a business idea, meme generator or OS project.<p>What have you been working on this summer? How many days did you spend working? Was it worth it?
I rewrote an older llvm/clang based static analysis tool for asserting properties about a given callgraph for use with C/C++ programs
<a href="http://github.com/fundamental/stoat" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/fundamental/stoat</a><p>This one only really took a few days to get it working to a reasonable degree and it was worth every minute to replace the older project with maintenance issues.
Other projects were worked on of course, but none of them are at a nicely completed stage.
I forked Project Gutenberg to github[0]. I've been doing some some work on newsdiffs[1]. I'm working on a python library for dealing with Library of Congress Subject Headings[2]. And I'm trying to get access to and release hundreds of syllabi collected via universities via FOIA request[3].<p>[0]: gitenberg.github.io
[1]: newsdiffs.org
[2]: <a href="https://github.com/sethwoodworth/LCC" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sethwoodworth/LCC</a>
[3]: <a href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/u-of-wisconsin-will-turn-over-course-syllabi-to-group-seeking-teacher-prep-data/53689" rel="nofollow">http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/u-of-wisconsin-will-turn-o...</a>
I launched a new version of the Election Analytics project for the 2014 Senate elections. electionanalytics.cs.illinois.edu I've spent 230 hours on the project since January, its definitely been worth it. I've learned project architecture, automation with Grunt.js, leadership skills, and lotsa others in my role of undergraduate team lead. I am looking to transition out of the project tho... its time to move on to the next thing. :)<p>I also learned how to business in preparation for founding a startup. Probs spent 100 hours on reading, discussions, and practice pitches.
Finally got my side project (a SSL add-on for Heroku) launched: <a href="https://addons.heroku.com/expeditedssl" rel="nofollow">https://addons.heroku.com/expeditedssl</a> - It had been kicking around as half finished for almost 6 months.<p>"Worth It" is a tough one as it's still mostly losing money even though people constantly complain about how expensive it is.
As a CS student entering into my second year and feeling a little drained from studying theory, this summer I spent a lot of my time learning practical skills and technologies and coding for fun.<p>I've been learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, Apache, MySQL, Bash, Ruby, and Android. I've also been using Linux regularly for the first time, as well as Vim.<p>The main projects I have been working on are my personal website/blog, a text-adventure game in Ruby, A js game using Canvas, and working through the chapters and exercises of "Beginning Android 4 Application Development" (feels like a tome).
I wrote a Dvorak practice program in Haskell that uses QuickCheck to generate random pseudo-scala practice sets.
<a href="https://github.com/pkinsky/dvorak" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/pkinsky/dvorak</a>.
JSON Archetypes – Open-source JSON Models For Popular Types Of Data!<p><a href="https://github.com/servant-cmes/json-archetypes" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/servant-cmes/json-archetypes</a><p>I've been writing these non-stop for a few weeks now. Let me know what you guys think. A simple star on github could help get this project some traction and perhaps we can one day come up with the best possible representations of every type of data there is :)
A psychological fitness regime for dying. That's all I can say for now: <a href="http://eepurl.com/XXOnD" rel="nofollow">http://eepurl.com/XXOnD</a>
I have been working on a robot battle game that uses cryptocurrency transactions as the main game action mechanic. We call the game Coindroids.<p>It is currently only available to play with Defcoin but it is pretty fun so far. It's kind of like satoshi dice but with tactics/strategy instead of luck.<p><a href="https://def.coindroids.com" rel="nofollow">https://def.coindroids.com</a>
I have been working on a small virtual machine called Carp. Right now I am working on writing my own tokenizer (as opposed to relying upon strtok()) and lexer, and then also a bytecode reader/writer.<p><a href="http://github.com/tekknolagi/carp" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/tekknolagi/carp</a>
Trying to help high school students learn about all the steps in higher education with a nonprofit -- <a href="http://www.realitystep.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.realitystep.org</a>. We haven't launched our main product yet but just conversations with students and teachers have made it worth it so far.
I quit my day job to work on <a href="http://www.podaris.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.podaris.com/</a> full-time. (It's like Google Docs for transport planning). It's going great -- in closed beta now. Hoping to have a public release by the end of September, and turn it into a real business!
I built a marketplace for horseback riding tours [1]<p>Tried to get stable owners to sell their tours on the site, failed.<p>Probably closing it down soon if nothing magically happens.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.rida.nu" rel="nofollow">https://www.rida.nu</a>
Had an idea a few days ago. Spent the next couple days after that validating and iterating through mockups on first build. Just literally started coding it 2 days ago. Haven't really gotten very far so can't say much but for now I'm excited
Fractal rendering and Perlin/simplex noise in Julia. Definitely worth it. I learned a lot, since I basically had to write everything from the ground up except the image handling. I couldn't say how long I spent on it.
I am a LAMP developer.
I learned NodeJS, MongoDB, AngularJS, Bootstrap.
Spoken english.<p>I still have plan to learn PhoneGap, GruntJS and Jade ( and ? )
Building <a href="http://treble.io" rel="nofollow">http://treble.io</a>, a community management tool for twitter. Finally taking beta testers!
Rewrote the media path in a product to have single-allocation zero-copy for video frames. Avoids media node memory ballooning and saves CPU so more clients per node.