Keeping old projects
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:38 pm
I am re-organizing my HDD for the first time (it's the second partition on a single drive actually used for backup) and just found an old Windows SDK application I wrote which gets weather details for a given ICAO and display a little thermometer with wind speed, direction, etc...
Basically completely useless
But it was a long time ago - I think before I switched to MFC and waaaaay before I started doing anything in PHP or web development (I even did Perl and ASP before switching to PHP)...
Anyways, It's a pretty complete little application which runs in your system tray, like ZoneAlarm, etc...and I was quite proud of it when I originally wrote it
But I'm trying to save room on my thumb drive, where all backed up data is going (My HDD is starting to whine alot at boot up from a cold start).
So I'm stuck with what to do...I'm too lazy to write up an article for a project I worked on almost 10 years ago, so I can't post the code on any web sites...it's written using the Windows SDK API, so it's a poor or antiquated example of my capabilities as a Windows developer...
And all in all it's pretty useless
I just dumped about 200 assembly source files and a massive number of VB projects, Pascal, Lisp, COBOL, C, C++/MFC and so on...probably 10,000 files i've saved over the years...are gonzo!!!
I'm a new project maniac...whenever I get an idea I start a project, incase you wondering why I have so many archived files...
Anyways, I managed to seperate with most of my archived code because, although many are cool IMHO, they are to far from being complete to bother saving or I have lost total interst in that area of programming (I dumped alot of C source files for a 3D game library I was working on years back for instance).
But this little weather utility is complete (mostly) and for whatever reason, I can't seem to delete the damn thing despite taking up valuable disk space on my thumb drive.
Someone slap some sense into me and convince me to to collect junk (I have a hard time seperating with anything - I have over 100 books which are sooo out of date they serve no purpose, except maybe nostalgia
And computer magazines dating back to before I was born 
Clearly I have a problem getting rid of junk...
Do I sound a little anal? Do you keep Code, books, magazines, software (I still have my MSDOS 4 & 6.22 w/ Windows 3.1 disks), etc...?
I should scrap all code, except those current 6 or 7 projects...shouldn't I?
I get this from my dad...you should see the junk he keeps...his house is full of stuff some of which are antiques...like an old sewing machine from like at least beginning of the century...I'm gonna steal it and sell it on eBay I think
Cheers
Basically completely useless
But it was a long time ago - I think before I switched to MFC and waaaaay before I started doing anything in PHP or web development (I even did Perl and ASP before switching to PHP)...
Anyways, It's a pretty complete little application which runs in your system tray, like ZoneAlarm, etc...and I was quite proud of it when I originally wrote it
But I'm trying to save room on my thumb drive, where all backed up data is going (My HDD is starting to whine alot at boot up from a cold start).
So I'm stuck with what to do...I'm too lazy to write up an article for a project I worked on almost 10 years ago, so I can't post the code on any web sites...it's written using the Windows SDK API, so it's a poor or antiquated example of my capabilities as a Windows developer...
And all in all it's pretty useless
I just dumped about 200 assembly source files and a massive number of VB projects, Pascal, Lisp, COBOL, C, C++/MFC and so on...probably 10,000 files i've saved over the years...are gonzo!!!
I'm a new project maniac...whenever I get an idea I start a project, incase you wondering why I have so many archived files...
Anyways, I managed to seperate with most of my archived code because, although many are cool IMHO, they are to far from being complete to bother saving or I have lost total interst in that area of programming (I dumped alot of C source files for a 3D game library I was working on years back for instance).
But this little weather utility is complete (mostly) and for whatever reason, I can't seem to delete the damn thing despite taking up valuable disk space on my thumb drive.
Someone slap some sense into me and convince me to to collect junk (I have a hard time seperating with anything - I have over 100 books which are sooo out of date they serve no purpose, except maybe nostalgia
Clearly I have a problem getting rid of junk...
Do I sound a little anal? Do you keep Code, books, magazines, software (I still have my MSDOS 4 & 6.22 w/ Windows 3.1 disks), etc...?
I should scrap all code, except those current 6 or 7 projects...shouldn't I?
I get this from my dad...you should see the junk he keeps...his house is full of stuff some of which are antiques...like an old sewing machine from like at least beginning of the century...I'm gonna steal it and sell it on eBay I think
Cheers