Since a while I had no time anymore to write some texts for my blog, but because there was just a little break, I thought I could add a short summary of my projects:

That thing that swallowed most of my time during the last weeks was the Microsoft exam 70-536: "Microsoft .NET Framework - Application Development Foundation". After I investigated all my free time in it and couldn't get it at the first try, I had to take my second shot. But the passing of the exam didn't release that much of my time, because all that projects that had been bottled-up had to be done now.

Here're some of them:

Pixelkaempferin - alias Jessika Wollstein

A good friend of mine, which wanted to demonstrate her abilities of graphic design. I really enjoyed working on that page, because I could try out some gimmicks. One of them was a the fact that she is now able to configure almost every page by XML and the icons are loaded automatically (matching to the config). Another thing was a diagonal menu, wherefore I just had the idea of an imagemap and some attached mouseover effects.

Spielefinder.Net

On a party one evening I talked to my girlfriends brother and asked him about some tools the web is still missing. I wanted to write a new project as a little training, but it needed to be a project which didn't already exist. During our conversation about verious ideas, he got me on the point of a game database. There're many of them, but none allows to filter the games by hardware. So about a week ago I got a page online which was able to filter its database for a specific hardware setup. Over that the client is able to specify a tolerance via some sliders (from the ASP.Net ajax toolkit) for the case they want to upgrade their PCs.

Codeplex - DownloadCounter

And last but not least: I added a new project to Codeplex named "DownloadCounter". At the moment it's just a very simple assembly and a demo project. I started that project, because the boyfriend of my sister asked me if I could put some files online for download and I decided to give him the ability to track how many times these music tracks where downloaded (he's a little hip-hopper) so that he can measure his success (or not :-D). And because I already wrote several download counters, I thought I could write one in .Net which was reusable and put it on Codeplex so that it can be improved over time - so I'm now hoping that some guys will download it and give me some good hints for improving it.