Thread: What are your current project(s)?

But seriously now, does seem like an interesting project... for C/C++. Ahaha! Ok, I'll stop laughing now

But C/C++ is not a programming language

On a more serious note, the choice is between Java or C since none of my other group members know C++, and since they are all not proficient in C (including me, actually), Java is the only realistic option unless we want to take a risk with C. I expect that we will end up using JNI for some things and thus write some C code anyway, though.

Best of luck. Should be an interesting project.

Holy ........ man! I know who you are! I thought maybe
your name was just a fan service to him! But after seeing
the links to your homepage in this thread... dude, you
are him!

You're a celebrity! There was a whole thread about
you on another forum I frequently visit. it was about your
heroic 500 hours on Level 2 in Bubsy 3D.

I have been writing a program to help me play poker online.
It scans through the hand histories of your previous games and builds up statistics
on each player, ie how many games they have played, how much they win/lose and how often
they perform various actions. I have modified it to work on a different site too, which stores
it's data in a different form and has slightly different information in the hand histories.
I intend to get it to work other sites too.
The problem is that there is a lot of code which is pretty common/similar but with slight
differences too, so I have to maintain a second program for each. Also there are different
types of games such as fixed limit betting and no limit betting, although I no longer play
fixed limit so I abandoned that version. I also have a version for tournement games which
have a slight difference in that you play for chips not cash but I should have incorporerated
that in to cash game program in an ideal world. There is much more data I could extract such
as a different data set for different stakes and number of players etc but sometimes you
can have too much infomation! Probably the single most telling piece of information is
whether a player wins or loses and how much (per hand). It has no GUI, just a set of data for each
active table and one global file for every player, which I view in Notepad++.
Probably the hardest part is testing, especially if there small descrepancy somewhere which
usually arises from me not understanding the hand history or some rare condition/event in
the hand.
There are also some actions which require some manual intervention such as updating my
main 'database' which I could automate and some bits of code I need to tidy up to make
porting to a different site easier. However I have shyed away from doing that because if it
makes a 'mistake' I will have to run the program from scratch, which on one site involves
processing over 1/2 a million files which 'takes a while'
However it is not so much the processing which takes the time it is the file access, if I run it
again with the files buffered in memory it is about ten times faster, so I may as well have
written it in basic!!
I play at two other sites (occasionally) so they will be next on the 'port to' list.
The next feature I might add is to keep a balance of how much I win/lose to a particular
player so I can do something about it!!!
However I expect this would merely follow the overall winners/losers list.

Obviously you can buy a program to do all this for you but I can't afford it because I have
lost all my money at poker

I have an internship offer this summer for working on ship design/simulation software.