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Since I wrote [the last post of
2012](http://fmartingr.com/blog/2012/12/31/2013/) I have been wondering if I
could finish -or at least, work- on all the projects or experiments I wanted
to. The answer was easy: **no**. I just don't have enough time for all the
stuff I want to do, so I have made some decisions about my projects.

## Project _herobrine_ **_…dropped!_**

!["Early draft of Project
Herobrine"](minecraft-database.png)

The first time I did something about this project was like 2010, as some of
you have guessed by the name of the project, its minecraft related. It was
intended to be a _wowhead-like_ minecraft database but not only on PC.

Some features I wanted:

  * Developed with django, returning json objects to the client.
  * Client MVC based with BackboneJS
  * Responsive design -so you can check with your tablet while play on your computer-
  * "no refresh" -backbone-
  * WebGL/Canvas block rendering
  * JS Redstone circuit maker
  * JS Dye maker
  * Homepage with random background featuring user's screenshots (above)
  * Interactive crafting/brewing/…

Finally I have to say goodbye to this _jewel_ -and it's really hard because I
love minecraft and I wanted this to happen- because of various reasons:
[minecraftwiki](http://minecraftwiki.net/) already contains a lot of
information -and it's really crowded-, the barrier of contents -I have to type
in all the minecraft items, blocks, biomes, etc- and that this wasn't really a
technical challenge -actually, some things are, but most of it are just
database relations and stuff-.

I want to prepare a future post with all the work I made on this project.
There's not much code but a lot of drafts and ideas that could help someone.

## Project _Serenity_ **_…dropped!_**

This was intended to be a way to simplify my jenkins business. Since I need a
lot of tasks like: compile, minify, copy, deploy, upload, test… I wanted an
app so I just define everything I need on a _YAML_ file and call the app with
`serenity <task>`.

I have some drafts built, a base YAML file, and some features planned like
integrated tasks, custom tasks in the YAML file, configuration…

Haven't coded for this one yet, but fortunately I heard about
[grunt](http://gruntjs.com/) who may be something very close at what I wanted
this one to be.

## ZombiePress ([github](http://github.com/fmartingr/zombiepress/))
**_…dropped!_**

It's obvious. I was making my own blog software but since now I'm a proud
octopress user this is no longer needed. I will keep the repo online just for
making me feel nostalgic in the future.

## BlueBird **_…dropped!_**

For all the iPad users… remember when Twitter changed the UI of the app? Did
you remember the old one? I do. The new interface is **total crap**, the other
was simply brilliant, and for me it was near the best one for an iOS app. I
was hoping to get a clone working in javascript, but my knowledge of touch
screens is not that good, I need to study more on the matter and then**maybe**
I will try again, but I'm pretty sure some javascript guru will do something
before that happens.

## Project _Amaranth_

The bigger brother. Recently I started a Vampire: Dark Age game with some
friends and it remembered me to when I played rolegames over IRC. I started
thinking that a online interface for roleplaying will be nice to have, because
you can also use it in a live session to whisper, draw, etc. The brainstorm
started quick enough for me to consider making it.

## Project _RTC_

Just born! -yesterday :P-. I want to make some kind of webRTC site to have
conversations without the need of register, just create a conversation, get a
link and you are set. It's more an experiment than a project itself.

## Uvepe8 ([github](http://github.com/fmartingr/uvepe8/))

I'm very proud -in a useful way- of this one and of course I'm maintaining it.

For the ones who don't know, its sort of _video-to-html5-canvas_, a mix
between apple's and sublime text's, but mines support transparency -I needed
it-.

There are some features I want to implement shown on the README file and a
full code review.

## Dharma ([github](http://github.com/fmartingr/dharma/))

An application to check for 404 links on websites, a lot of things could be
added to this, but for now is for playing around with threading, gevent and
that kind of things.

I have some _other things_ in mind I want to try, but that deserves another
post -which is already in the works-.

Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, anything you want to say: comment,
tweet, mail or shout at me!


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