Hello

Well I thought I would create a new blog about my trials and tribulations while programming. I had thought about creating a project on some topic and hosting in on a site like Google Code, or Source Forge, or trying out GitHub. However, creating a new project is hard. The central question is: What do you want to do a project/application on? Once that's decided, you have to do some concepts and some coding. I mean you don't want your project to be just an empty shell with no code. You have to create a skeleton to work on before you get started. Don't you? So then there's the question of: When should you put your code up? and How much time do I want to devote to it once I do? and Will people find it useful? or Has it been done before? and What if they laugh at me? I have a few ideas for a project, but thats all they are right now. Ideas, and maybe I'll blog a bit about those too. Most of the work I do right now is for my PhD so my code is neatly locked away on my schools svn server. Of course most of that work is not very "useful" to anyone except me and my small corner of the scientific community. So I've decided that this blog will be a place where I can post small examples of particularly difficult problems I've overcome. I'd also like to put comments about simple things that aren't well documented, which others might find useful (by "others" I mean you the reader and myself too!). Well I'll try to think up a good topic for my next entry. Cheers!