Site backup and sundry…

I spent last weekend getting backup set up for the site after a scare that had me thinking I’d lost the blog side of the site. Backups now are looking good and appear to be running well. I still need to load XAMPP on my linux box and verify that I can restore the sites, but I’m pretty comfortable that will work.

I’m not sure what is on my agenda next in terms of technical projects but here’s a loosely form list in no particular order:

  • Various site related work is needed to wrap things up here and clean up some known gaps.
  • I’d like to start playing with some real OpenGL coding. Some time back I did some Direct3D stuff in the sandbox, but OpenGL is more broadly supported and the new-ish programmable pipelines are interesting, powerful and bit complicated.
  • I’m interested in experimenting with RESTful web service interfaces through my site. Any sort of shared game or application is going to need something like this to store and retrieve shared information and get services from the site. I know it can be done and have dabbled in the past. I need to actually put some code together, probably with some OpenGL front end just to make it more interesting, and see something work.
  • I’ve needed some file de-dup code and general archive management support for a long time now. I currently wind up shoveling huge chunks of code off onto 5TB external drives for archival storage. I know there is a ton of duplicate data on those drives, but it is cheaper and safer to keep dups rather than risk deleting something I don’t want to lose. With cryptographic hashes and some database code i should be able to ensure that I know what is where, how many copies I have and select items that need archiving rather than everything in a given area again and again.
  • My email provider (same as my hosting provider) is great except that they have been taking forever to support rules based filtering. Given that they are IMAP based, I know I could put together code that looks at the email inbox, carries out folder transfers based on filtering rules and keeps my main inbox down to a sane level of clutter. Perhaps this would be a good python project? At some point soon I need to put a bit of effort in here.

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