Official OCUK programming project

Rich43

Rich43

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I think we should all gather in this thread, think of something cool/fun to code and use all our OCUK programming power to code it :-)

I think it would be pretty cool.. what you guys think?

Maybe to start it off.. OCUK themed game? feel free to add more ideas :)

If want to do a project..
a) post your interested, including any one else reading this thread.
b) decide on language (feel free to argue!)
c) decide on any other technicality's (File Formats, database's etc)
d) feel free to suggest your own project
 
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Rich43 said:
I really have no idea what you are on about.
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I think he means make a program that will allow a user to input a budget and a use then spit out a list of compatible computer hardware that conforms to the budget and use therefore getting rid of many of the "Spec Me" threads in General Hardwear
 
Ahh that would have to be web based.. maybe PHP/Python/Ruby with a database backend. Perhaps people could submit specs for a price range.. i.e. 200-250, 250-300

I say if want to do a project..
a) post your interested, including any one else reading this thread.
b) decide on language
c) decide on any other technicality's (File Formats, database's etc)
d) feel free to suggest your own project

I'll put that in the main post.
 
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A spec-o-matic would be cool but it would require constant revision by people who know what the new hotness in hardware is. There'd be a lot of criteria to consider, but it's doable. I'm no programmer but I'd like to help if possible. :)
 
A nice concept, doesn't neccesarily have to have prices for each part because that would be a pain to update without access to so form of API to the OcUK shop (even a CSV file). I think it has some potential because when I upgraded by system, the DS3's were hot and everyone had them as well as the mid-range C2D. For example, a DS3 is worth paying for if your aim was to overclock but probably not worth it if your not. Likewise the GeIL RAM was hot at the time.
 
Okay then, What programming language would be best? PHP/Ruby/Java/Python/etc ?

You all can choose based on your experience and pick the most popular.
 
I was thinking that something like this could be interesting a while ago.

To make it work you'd need a proper project manager(s) as well as a reasonable level of dedication from the participants, I'm sure you could create an open source project on Sourceforge and get some people here involved with a little bit of effort.
 
The spec-o-matic would be pretty lol given that you'd have to find some way of quantifying the performance of a component such that you can do a direct comparison between it and every other component :confused:

It's hard enough with things like CPU clock speed but how are you going to balance say a video card with a slower clock speed and more video RAM, or more system RAM vs. faster RAM, or god knows how many other tricky things?
 
What rob said.

It's far too subjective and depends far too much on exactly what the user wants from his/her hardware.

I'm sure it's technically possible but it'd be horrifically complicated and involve lots of arbitrary weighting systems which would render it pretty useless when it comes to accurately measuring the suitability of a setup for a given budget and intended purpose.
 
I don't think it's doomed to failure. It's just getting an idea people would be bothered to help with.

Something useful to OcUK would be the best bet if we were to really get people interested... OcUK Radio? OcUK clan war site? OcUK legue table site, could cover more than clan wars (Motor forum users lap times or whatever, Hardware forum benchmarks in various applications, Clans).. Each list can have a list admin who is allowed to add other admins to the list, and those admins are responsible for keeping it up to date? Any user can submit a "change request" saying something needs changing, an admin can look at it and ignore it or change the list.

/end wall of text

Sorry about that, kind of wrote my thought process down and posted it :p

Although that idea isn't much of a project, it'd be done within a week!
 
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I was thinking that they could upload a screenshot, Write details about the spec, why its good etc...

I guess we could parse the HTML of ocuk's site which downloads the products (Could break if staff makes changes to site) or ask ocuk staff nicly for a simple XML api which does a query and lists all the products from their database in a XML format.

Also, some sort of human moderation system could remove old out of date specs as hardware advances :-)
 
Hi there,

Haven't read the thread completely, but over in Windows forums we are creating a site which is basically a freeware list compiled by people at ocuk, where the user submit/rate programs.

Now I have created the project using PHP/XHTML/CSS/Javascript, but i am by no means a good coder, so it might be an idea to do something like that?

Just an idea :)
 
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