ideas

Needed software that uses Hadoop/Nagios.

Hello, I'm wanting to experiment with Hadoop and its related parts like Pig and HBase and I'm trying to think of an interesting (and most importantly useful) project to start on with these tools that would be related to Nagios. I have access to ~200 hosting servers running Apache/MySQL/PHP/Nagios (so I have lots of logs/data that I cou...

User Fast Switching Ideas Needed

I'm looking for ideas on how to implement some type of fast login scenario for an application that will allow employees to quickly login. I work with an organization that has employees rotate every 30 minutes to a different location. If there are 3 employees, then the first employee won't come back to the checkout station for an hour. ...

Need some ideas on how to code my log parser...

I have a VPS that's hosting multiple virtual hosts. Each host has it's own access.log and error.log. Currently, there's no log rotation setup, though, this may change. Basically, I want to parse these logs to monitor bandwidth and collect stats. My idea was to write a parser and save the information to a small sqlite database. The scri...

project idea on j2ee

i am going to build a web based application using j2ee. can you please suggest me some ideas about what to do? ...

I would like to do some programming stuff during summer, what do you recommend?

Preferable C/C++, Python or Java. I'm tired of doing simple and silly applications. I would like to start or help in a big project, but I don't know how to do it and what to do. Any idea? ...

Rails application structure, advice?

Hi Everyone, I am about to start working on my second ever Rails application and could do with some advice. It will probably help in my head typing this question anyway! The application's purpose is to track and monitor marketing campaigns. That makes it sound way more professional that what it actually is though. An example usage: ...

Any opensource AntiVirus / AntiSpyware?

I was looking at ClamAV and checked it out. I want to help develop (or learn) on writing Antivirus application. I would like to know if there are more than one (ClamAV) opensource antivirus out there and how would you suggest to fork from an opensource if I wanted to make myself a one. ...

CUDA C Research / Project Ideas

Over the summer, I started to learn CUDA C because the nVIDIA performance claims were simply unbelievable. This past week, I started another semester of my undergrad studies. My major is computer science. One of the classes I am taking this semester is undergrad research and want to further practice with CUDA C. Does anyone have an...

HTML/CSS/jQuery: Tabular data & thumbnails

Is there a quick/easy way to have tabular data and have a button that turns them to thumbnails (kind of a 2-view system, table/thumb)--I'm not looking for image thumbnails... Any ideas are appreciated! :) Examples: ...

Suggestion and Idea tracking

Hi there, I'm searching a software (web-based, php/mysql) that allows users to (anonymously/with registering) write suggestions or ideas on a project. The project itself does not necessarily have to be software-related, I also want to use it for some IRL projects I'm working on, but that may well need some suggestions from the people in...

Need idea for project in Erlang

Hello, Some times ago i started to learn Erlang language. And now came a moment when it came to practice. But i haven't idea, what project. Now i have some free time and i want to start interesting project in Erlang. It will be open source under GNU/GPL and i want that it will be useful for the community to community. If you have some ...

Concept for archiving huge database

I need a concept how I can archive all data in D-Pool which is older than one year. At the moment we have more than 3 million records in the D-Pool. Because of this huge data foundation searches and filters over the database takes quite too long, because most searches are done over the whole D-Pool data, but in most cases I am only inter...

Have unique idea and have no money for it

First of all, before you vote to close it, read the next sentence. I do think this thread can be useful, because as we all know, in SO (StackOverflow) meets people who can implement project by themselves and run the website without any others' help and investments. So, my question, how can you advertise your idea the best if you do not ...

I need a notification system in a web application

I have a web application which our customer use it all day. Some times, i need to stop or restart application. When I do it, some customers' work is interrupted and this makes them nervous. I want to make a notification system that, appear on application and inform customers about shutting down of system. How can I make a system like t...

Web Application using PHP + MySQL

Hi, Anyone got challenging web application project (preferably using PHP + MySQL) ideas suitable for first class degree? All are welcome! ...

Is it a good idea to use HTML5 now?

I know it will be 'finalized/made official' in 2012 (and something to do with it being given 'Recommendation status' in 2022), but I'm wondering if it's a good idea to make a site using HTML5 now. A simple portfolio sorta site? Given that most users (most people using IE) won't have support for it, although IE9 (shock) will be shipping ...

Learning Python Exercise

I have taken it upon myself to learn python. As it is my second language is has not been that hard to get the hang of. I am looking for some simple python projects to undertake so I can better learn the syntax of the language in general. I would specifically like to learn the syntax of arrays, lists, and dictionaries. Edit: I cant say...

Need advice for Coursework

Hello, In have Coursework in my university by OOP development. I have some themes in this Coursework, but i can create Coursework inmy own idea. Please can you advice me theme in Coursework by object oriented programming, any programming language supporting OOP. Thank you. ...

Investing time and effort on Java?

Hi, as a student that is planning to create a startup, I've been developing a Java based Web Framework that aims to simplify developing scalable web applications. It's been a long time since I started to work on this project and as a seasoned web developer I'm happy with the result. I was planning to use this framework for my future web ...

c# and databasing: in theory, how to create a training list

I'm obviously not looking for any actual code necessarily, but more of someone to point me in the right direction. I'm trying to convert our training lists from paper to a digital format but the manager wants to keep roughly the same format intact. This would be a great project for a database type setup but im wondering how to approach i...