Trying to get back on track with sandbox work at home.

I’m taking another run at the tool for archive management and de-duplication processing that has been on the plate for some time. This tool wants to read files, determine uniqueness of files (based on content) and maintain an index (likely in MongoDB) of files that have been scanned and are expected to exist. I’m writing things in C# mostly. The current user interface approach involves WPF but may also make use of ASP.NET (probably core) at some point. Looking to solve a problem and play with some coding tools on this front.

I’ve got better versions of my interop C++/CLI code to provide access to Win32 volume and file information functions in place and tested. I have not yet pushed these up to github as they’re still just free-standing code without anything to actively run them.

I’m expecting to put in place some more helper code shortly and then build out a simple WPF interface to run things. I also want/need to build a more capable MongoDB back end to hold file scan results as part of the process,

Haven’t gotten much done on a technical front (aside from work items) in a while as other things have been dominating my time (partly work there as well).

Really going to have to get the RepRap work going once the workbench in the basement is cleared for real work (one of the areas that is taking time…cleaning the basement). Also been doing a quick emacs-lisp refresher as I’d like to get some things done on that front.

I did drag the intuos tablet down to the living room. I hope to find time to do some drawing and blender work here and there soon as that is less time consuming and can be done in small bits. I need to locate my corel painter install files and get that package on the living-room NUC. I suspect that responsiveness may be better there than on the big machine in my office too.