Every once in a while, I challenge myself, I think of a small application that might be useful to me and time myself to see how much time it took me to write it. The latest one, the one I did yesterday night, was an alarm clock which plays mp3 files as the alarm tone (took me 2 hours, I’m not pleased at all). Anyway, I decided to post the app here and maybe someone might use it I called it FreeAlarm v0.1, it’s one executable file, no installations or anything and should work on all Windows OS. Let me know what you think of it!

The source code (written in C#) isn’t documented (not part of challenge, takes time ) but it’s pretty straight forward, I don’t mind uploading it if I get requests for it.

Click here to download FreeAlarm

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I’ve been a beta (actually even pre-alpha :P) user of Woopra for a while (one of the first, if not the first), so it’s now time to pay my dues by posting a video about it, the video was made with intent to be modified (some editing and adding step by step explanation) and placed on the Woopra demo page but due to lack of time it stayed as scrap and in the meanwhile newer version of Woopra got released and therefore I decided to post it before it becomes totally useless

If you haven’t heard of Woopra yet, “Woopra provides real-time stats delivered via a revolutionary client-server application, and includes unique features such as the ability to identify and chat real time with visitors to the monitored site. The beta version of Woopra was quietly unveiled to a select audience of 200 at WordCamp Dallas, but news rapidly spread to over 2 million as buzz began to grow.”

Enjoy!

For those interested in an invite to Woopra, I have a small challenge, download the high quality video from Vimeo (on the videos page) and edit it. The best edit will receive an invite!

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I’ve been cleaning my laptop today, and came along a project I did for my Parallel Programming course, I’ve never published this because the code was never completed as I lost interest, the challenge was the idea and the concept, anyone can write a piece of code but few people can come up with innovative ideas!

I came up with the idea of writing a PHP library which will make my multiple servers work together in running a certain job, back then I had access to around 5 shared servers, 3 were mine, and 2 were from friends… As an example, I ran Monte Carlo using this concept. One server was the master, the other 4 were slaves. The master sent the jobs to the slaves, the slaves got random numbers from random.org, calculated the integral, and sent the results back to the master. Once the master received all the results, it calculated the average and outputted the result. This was just a simple example I did to prove that my idea worked…

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