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gDo – my current baby
By Jeremy | April 8, 2008
I am currently working on a project I like to call gDo. I stole the first letter from Google and the second part of the name tries to describe what I am trying to create: a To-Do list. At the current moment it is really simple, but I plan on adding functionality until it becomes a pretty useful app.
I am developing this app for two reasons. One is so that I can learn AJAX better. The second is because I really need a to-do list that I don’t have to carry around with me everywhere. If I put this one up on the cloud then wherever I find the internet I will also find my to-do list.
So far there haven’t been any major problems as I have been fleshing out basic functionality. Currently gDo is just some iframes with a content div to hold the list of items in the to-do list. Figuring out how to interact between the windows and having different windows update at the correct times has been interesting. I would go into a long tutorial on how to do all of it except that I found all my solutions online. I will post on how I make the main window refresh and the complexities of knowing when windows are loaded so that they can be used.
Security has been my next project. I don’t want to implement full bore https but I don’t want people’s passwords to just be plain text available upon packet/request/response inspection. My solution has not been very original or novel (oh too bad, no patents that I can troll about with) but it is going to work great. I am just going to put the password through a little hash, which one of course will remain nameless, and add a little salt in for taste and bam. No little hackers reading my passwords without at least some effort.
The best part about all of this, though, is the experience I am gaining. I really enjoy learning new things and trying them out. It seems that many of my fellow nerds swear by this technology or that technology. They will argue until they are blue in the face about how Linux is better than Windows or Flex is better than AJAX or Java is better than any scripting language. The way I look at things is more of a buffet (and I do love buffets): I take a little AJAX when it seems to work well and then I take a little Flex when it works well. Bottom of the line, no technology is inherently bad. As long as you keep your eyes and mind open there will be places for every technology.
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