in reply to Project ideas

Just listen to your own wants and desires. What have you thought recently along the lines of "man I wish I had something to do that programatically?". Then ask yourself how could you do it in Perl? Someone in a recent node just asked for a way to search text and display them in a Tk text box with the "search words" colorized. Thats a cool project, which alot of people would find useful. Maybe you could even make a module of it.

It can be hard to get these ideas, because we often "subconciously" dismiss them as IMPOSSIBLE. But there is nothing impossible with Perl...(given enough time and energy :-) )

OOOOH OOOH, I just had another good one. How about a GUI to display your position on a map based on GPS data?

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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Re: Re: Project ideas
by eserte (Deacon) on Mar 18, 2004 at 16:53 UTC
    OOOOH OOOH, I just had another good one. How about a GUI to display your position on a map based on GPS data?
    Do you need such a program? I can provide something which runs with a Garmin eTrex and iPAQ 3650 under Linux and Perl/Tk...
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      No, I don't need it, but it would be cool. :-) I wonder if those failed Robotic vehicle racers last week were using Perl. They could use it. :-)
      I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
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      That would be cool, but I'd need a GPS unit first (and I would have to switch to linux). Thanks anyways though
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        perl-GPS works under Windows, too, so you just need the device...
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