need some ideas for programs

[psychotomus]

I need some ideas for some programs to make. Im unsure on what to make.

I currently have made and released the following programs.

Magic 8Ball (easy, but actually extremely popular)
Link Back Verifier (enter sites and sites taht link to your site to check if they linking back to you)
Mouse Track (tracks how far your mouse has traveled in inches , miles)
Account Manager (Stores account types, login and password for different type of accounts)
A Phone book
Pong
Tic Tac Toe
Tile Merger (merges 2 tiles together)
Siphon Anime Lister (enter your anime list into a custom database and displays it has a html file)


Anyone got any good suggestions for some programs or even games.

[mendhak]

What language?

[psychotomus]

does the language really matter?

either vb or C++.

[mendhak]

Make an RSS Reader.

[psychotomus]

anybody else?

[Hack]

Yes, make something that I believe will be useful to you for your entire programming career.

Make yourself a Code Library. I use an Access 2000 database with a VB6 front end (it actually started as a VB3 front end with an Access 2.0 database).

I have a treeview which list all of my code categories, i.e., Visual Basic, Java, SQL, etc

In one iteration or another I've had this program for 11 years and it has been extremely beneficial. Whatever you do something cool, pop into your library. If you see something cool that someone else has done that you think might be good to have for something, just pop it in your library.

It is also something you can burn to CD and take with you on every job you have/go to.

[RobDog888]

Thats a great suggestion Hack. I just use a VSS database and I can access it from anywhere using SourceOffSite
software, which is nothing more then an automation overlay of VSS Object Model.

How about just automating anything that you do repetitively? Making yourself more effecient is always a good thing.
It can give you more time to visit VBF!

I made a quote program for quoting potential programming projects using Word and VB6. Its like a wizard and
at the end it autogenerates a Word document for printing or emailing to the client.

[Hack]

I like VSS but the Code Library is yours, and yours alone. I've moved from job to job at lot, especially when I was contracting, and having my own personal Code Library was a life safer on more than one occasion.