The behavior of recent versions of EQDKP were changed slightly, which caused the links in the Balancer plugin's admin menu to lead to pages that don't exist. This has been corrected in Balancer version 1.1.1b, which is available from the project download page.
The older version of Balancer is still available for those running older versions of EQDKP.
Sometimes I have to make lists just to get things out of my head, this is such a time. The list has no special order.
Obviously my current goal is to get version 1.4.0 into beta testing. The to do list has been growing, but it should soon be completed. Sadly, work is currently zapping most of my energy during weekdays.
This will be done during the beta. I will probably not have the required time to build this from scratch because of work limiting my free time. I'm currently keeping an eye on Lenya and other open-source CMS.
The fourth prototype was released in March, since then I have been preoccupied mostly by DKP Log Parser. IObserver was never meant to be put on hold like this and I will do my best to get it up to shape as soon as DKPLP has a stable release.
The Balancer project is fairly popular, but the code is amongst the oldest that I have on this site. The current version does what it should and does it well, but I feel that the code should be rewritten and documented just for the sake of making it easier to modify.
The version tag "0.5" doesn't do JUpdater justice, it is darn stable at the moment. It's being put to production in multiple projects, both on this site and outside.
I have a small dkp bank running on this site. Basically it collects statistical data from a DKP system every day, which can then be analysed and used to calculate counter measures (and in case you're wondering: No, I don't administrate the DKP system displayed). I feel that this could be useful to have in EQDKP, or as a standalone package that anyone can install on their servers.
In case someone hasn't noticed yet: I like to analyse DKP systems. I rarely get the chance though, so I would like to do some project that gives me access to statistical data from many live systems that use different methods.
This is connected to the point above, but instead of analysing the effects of individual systems I want to categorise the multitude of system variations that are out there.
I want to use Haskell more than I do today, and I have never created a GUI in Haskell before, so that could be interesting. The 15-piece puzzle is chosen because that would give me an opportunity to put some discrete math knowledge to good use.
I will probably end up building a website from scratch once I have been annoyed enough by whatever CMS I choose for dkplp.org .
Because I want to.
Darkfall Crafters is only the beginning of what I have in store for Darkfall if it comes online and meats my expectations, especially when it comes to crafting. Information is scarce so I'm not holding my breath on this one. It would give me a nice opportunity to start projects that put my algorithmic knowledge/design to the test.
Every day I run into smaller problems (most often programming related) that take some digging to solve. I would like to make it a habit to post the solution to these problems when I solve them, partly for others but also because I'm likely to forget the solution after a while. I would also include any neat programs/resources that I happened to find.
I feel that this site is reserved for news about the contained projects and that a blog format (which seems to be just about anything these days...) would be the best for this.
Python is a useful language that I do not have a lot of experience with, something should be done about that.
A patch for the Balancer EQDKP plugin has been released, the latest version is now 1.1.1a . The patch fixes an incorrectly reported last date of balance, which caused the anti-hoarding code to perform incorrect calculations.
Version 1.1.1 of the Balancer has been released. The changelog is very brief.
Every time I have to dig in the plugin's code I get a grim reminder of how unmaintainable the code that I wrote a few years ago is. I hope that I wont get the same feeling three years from now when I have to dig in todays programs.
There was recently some interest in the Balancer plugin so I have split it from EQLP into its own project. The plugin was written well over a year ago, so it is one of the older projects.
The Balancer is an EQDKP plugin made to keep zero-sum systems in balance. It also includes some optional anti-hoarding code. It was recently upgraded to be compatible with PHP5 and EQDKP 1.3.0 .
The simple macro maker had to step out of the menu in favor of the new project, but as always all projects can be found in the project list.