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title: Weekly project status: Dropping projects is hard
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Since I wrote [the last post of
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2012](http://fmartingr.com/blog/2012/12/31/2013/) I have been wondering if I
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could finish -or at least, work- on all the projects or experiments I wanted
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to. The answer was easy: **no**. I just don't have enough time for all the
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stuff I want to do, so I have made some decisions about my projects.
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## Project _herobrine_ **_…dropped!_**
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The first time I did something about this project was like 2010, as some of
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you have guessed by the name of the project, its minecraft related. It was
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intended to be a _wowhead-like_ minecraft database but not only on PC.
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Some features I wanted:
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* Developed with django, returning json objects to the client.
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* Client MVC based with BackboneJS
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* Responsive design -so you can check with your tablet while play on your computer-
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* "no refresh" -backbone-
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* WebGL/Canvas block rendering
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* JS Redstone circuit maker
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* JS Dye maker
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* Homepage with random background featuring user's screenshots (above)
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* Interactive crafting/brewing/…
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Finally I have to say goodbye to this _jewel_ -and it's really hard because I
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love minecraft and I wanted this to happen- because of various reasons:
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[minecraftwiki](http://minecraftwiki.net/) already contains a lot of
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information -and it's really crowded-, the barrier of contents -I have to type
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in all the minecraft items, blocks, biomes, etc- and that this wasn't really a
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technical challenge -actually, some things are, but most of it are just
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database relations and stuff-.
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I want to prepare a future post with all the work I made on this project.
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There's not much code but a lot of drafts and ideas that could help someone.
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## Project _Serenity_ **_…dropped!_**
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This was intended to be a way to simplify my jenkins business. Since I need a
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lot of tasks like: compile, minify, copy, deploy, upload, test… I wanted an
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app so I just define everything I need on a _YAML_ file and call the app with
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`serenity <task>`.
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I have some drafts built, a base YAML file, and some features planned like
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integrated tasks, custom tasks in the YAML file, configuration…
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Haven't coded for this one yet, but fortunately I heard about
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[grunt](http://gruntjs.com/) who may be something very close at what I wanted
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this one to be.
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## ZombiePress ([github](http://github.com/fmartingr/zombiepress/))
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**_…dropped!_**
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It's obvious. I was making my own blog software but since now I'm a proud
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octopress user this is no longer needed. I will keep the repo online just for
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making me feel nostalgic in the future.
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## BlueBird **_…dropped!_**
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For all the iPad users… remember when Twitter changed the UI of the app? Did
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you remember the old one? I do. The new interface is **total crap**, the other
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was simply brilliant, and for me it was near the best one for an iOS app. I
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was hoping to get a clone working in javascript, but my knowledge of touch
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screens is not that good, I need to study more on the matter and then**maybe**
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I will try again, but I'm pretty sure some javascript guru will do something
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before that happens.
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## Project _Amaranth_
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The bigger brother. Recently I started a Vampire: Dark Age game with some
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friends and it remembered me to when I played rolegames over IRC. I started
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thinking that a online interface for roleplaying will be nice to have, because
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you can also use it in a live session to whisper, draw, etc. The brainstorm
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started quick enough for me to consider making it.
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## Project _RTC_
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Just born! -yesterday :P-. I want to make some kind of webRTC site to have
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conversations without the need of register, just create a conversation, get a
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link and you are set. It's more an experiment than a project itself.
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## Uvepe8 ([github](http://github.com/fmartingr/uvepe8/))
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I'm very proud -in a useful way- of this one and of course I'm maintaining it.
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For the ones who don't know, its sort of _video-to-html5-canvas_, a mix
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between apple's and sublime text's, but mines support transparency -I needed
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it-.
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There are some features I want to implement shown on the README file and a
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full code review.
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## Dharma ([github](http://github.com/fmartingr/dharma/))
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An application to check for 404 links on websites, a lot of things could be
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added to this, but for now is for playing around with threading, gevent and
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that kind of things.
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I have some _other things_ in mind I want to try, but that deserves another
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post -which is already in the works-.
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Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, anything you want to say: comment,
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tweet, mail or shout at me!
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pub_date: 2013-01-12
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