jtolds.com - Projects http://www.jtolds.com/projects/rss.xml JT Olds' RSS Feed for Projects en-us Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License <![CDATA[To-Dlo!]]> JT Olds 1225568754 Sat, 1 Nov 2008 19:45:54 +0000 Back when I had a plain Nokia cellphone, I had this need to keep track of notes and todo lists. What I wanted was simply a service to which I could text message reminders and todo items that would store them for me on the internet. There were a few services that did similar things, but none scratched my particular itch. So, I wrote the service I wanted.

Please see To-Dlo's about page for a more detailed explanation.

Note: I just got my G1, so I don't know how much more I'll be working on this. Perhaps I'll end up making an Android/iPhone interface.


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So, I did, and posted it to the XO wiki.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/ExecCommand


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I've been working on this project in various respects for over a year, as it was originally a way to teach myself Python. However, the project has since matured a bit and now features a client/server architecture, among other things.

I've open-sourced the project and put it up for development at Google Code. For more information, please see the official Viricide website.


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To facilitate this, I've written a very bare-bones Python game of Horseshoe. There is now an AI. It's pretty naive, but you can now play against your computer. In the immortal words of Donald Knuth, I have only proved it correct, not tried it. I think its win detection is right, which is the part that matters.
To run it, execute main.py.

Updated to include a reference to my poster I presented on Horseshoe.


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These applications are horribly out of date and are really only here for historical purposes.
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I also wanted a Gmail account at the time, which I have now, and as barter on gmailswap, I offered to show someone how to fix their Nintendo. I made a PDF of this. Now it's here in online form.

Mentioned in the article is a part you need to order. Last I checked (2007-07-02), you could buy that part from the following retailers: eStarland.com, The Electric Quarter, and Game Asylum.

Also, other tutorials are here and here.


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If you click the briefcase on the following page, you can see some of the applications we released. The text on the page has so far been a blatant lie.


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