NANY 2009 PROGRESS REPORT - The Volunteer Voice: December 14

The NANY Challenge is an annual Challenge at DonationCoder where coders of all levels are challenged to pledge a New Application for the New Year and release it on January 1, 2009.

This year the NANY 2009 Challenge is generating a lot of interest: so far we've had 36 Pledges! We've even got 14 Teasers and 12 Full Entries posted that you are welcome to download and try now.

Last week we extended the Pledge Deadline until December 15th21st, so there's still time to pledge your commitment and join the fun. We have an active thread where members have offered some ideas they'd like to see entered: see the Communal Idea Thread. DonationCoder also has an active Programming School that has a wealth of ideas and opportunities that could be developed into a NANY Challenge entry. For more information about the DonationCoder Programming School see these Instructions.

Teaser / Entry Focus
We're overwhelmed by the response we've had to this year's NANY, both in the number of entries and the breadth and quality of the entries. Here is a small snippet of what you can now find at NANY 2009:

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Tree List
Tree List is a minimalistic application for easily creating hierarchical (tree-like) lists. Tree List can be used to break down tasks into manageable steps and sometimes break those steps down further into sub-steps. Tree List features: Multiple lists, Quick access to each list, Keyboard shortcuts, Portable.


DecClock
DecClock is a Tool to save time when you calculate with Time. It features: a GUI, Normal Clock, Decimal Clock, Binary Clock, Hex Clock, Compare Time, Time Conversion, Time Definitions, Portable. For an explanation of these time-systems please see WikiPedia's Decimal Time and Hexadecimal Time (DecClock uses a slightly different specifiction of Decimal Time than WikiPedia's). A linux tester is wanted to test this application on Mono.


CrushPad
CrushPad organizes text entries into Categories, similar to a Ticket-System. Each Ticket is classified by a Category and SubCategory and is tracked by a Status. The Search function searches all entries and the application is Portable, Multi-User access is possible over a network.


Fractal Explorers
Fractal Explorers are two applications that were written just for fun, as an étude of Ruby and the OpenGL Shading Language.

• JuliaExplorer allows you to explore Julia sets of quadratic polynomials of the form z^2+c. It allows you to zoom into any part of the generated set, but the even more exciting feature is the ability to change smoothly the value of the complex parameter c, and see the fractal evolve slowly from one form to another.
• MandelbrotExplorer allows you to explore the Mandelbrot set. It allows you to zoom into any part of the set.

Fractal Explorers requires Ruby and Ruby-OpenGL.