FlashHacker, my nifty little tool in VB for fiddling with Flash on the fly, is out in shiny version 1'ness.

Mainly done for Windpower as he asked me when I mentioned it to him. FOSS too

To read more and give it a whirl, see the software page, which has also had a bit of a fix up recently: http://software.palmnet.me.uk/module/flashhacker

You can all thank Kevin for this wonderful blog post, and my melting mind for the title.
Whenever I forget to post for a while Kevin is usually the guy to remind me and force me to write up a new post, so here it is this time.

Projects
I have a few old projects that are stagnating, namely Spunge and the shoutboxes. However, I also have all new projects too!

But first, the stagnating ones.
Spunge is at the exact same point it was at last time I posted, and the time before that too. Still the file manager to go and then just polish.
But it's always that last little push that's the hardest.
I also noticed a slight bug with the WYSIWYG editor I was using which I'll need to patch up too, and yet still no drive to complete it. Mostly due to the lack of co-developers on the project to poke me online and give me the enthusiasm to complete it.
The shoutboxes are also getting into a state of disrepair with no work being done on them for about a month now!
However, there is still a lot to do and the final spec isn't even finished yet, so the code is evolving each and every time I touch it. So far the JSON is gone as PHP5 still isn't all that common and the RSS feed is back and will be boasting more features...or at least it will when I get round to coding them!

Now then, new projects!
PIntEd
I did make a little interpreted languages editor about a year ago in VB6 so I could easily play with PHP on the fly at college.
That program sucked. Majorly! It had no real features, so to speak. It was just a split panel layout with one text box for code and one for output.
I recently started toying with .Net, a thing that's always made me shudder in the past, but I think I actually rather like it now I know how to program properly! OOP is no longer a problem and all the various other bastardisations available in .Net seem to somehow make, dare I say it, sense.
So thank you Microsoft! I like Visual Studio 2005, its nifty.
Anyway back to PIntEd, Palmers Interpreted languages Editor. It's made in VB.Net, my love for VB is still strong, and has all sorts of new stuff like syntax highlighting, line numbers, multi-document support...
Still not finished yet, but coming along well. Just tweaking the syntax highlighter now for faster highlighting. If anyone knows any good tips for syntax highlighting text boxes in .Net shoot me a comment

FlashHacker
Nothing overly special. I just needed to grab some variables values from a flash file at runtime so wrote a little VB6 app in about 10 minutes to do it for me. Then expanded it to writing variables and such and may add some extra features to make cracking flash games easier.
Also might be nice if I add in some scripting so you can get little botting programs on the go for flash MMO type games. Depends on how evil I feel.

Icey
Should be a nice little add-on script for Spunge or a standalone system when done for podcast owners.
The amount of podcasts I see with crap sites consisting of nothing much apart from a list of show links annoys me. So I set out some plans, not much code yet, to make an easy to manage podcast system that supports shows, tags, descriptions, track lists and all sorts of podcasty treats!
Palmnet v3
Recently PWnet.org.uk has had an update to make it look even flashier than it was before.
Never to be outdone I set up some basic plans for the next iteration of Palmnet. Nothing much to say yet as all I have so far is a text file with some generic buzz words and a few paragraphs about re-organising the stuff that's currently there. I also made a start at looking at new design ideas, but hey, I suck when it comes to anything that has to look nice!
Expect to see nothing for a good few months, but hopefully by this summer I might have come up with something cool for you lot to see.

In other news:
Uni, exams, gah. Need I say more!
Also, future projects seem to be oozing out of me right now, so expect another project soon to be a project management system!

Write again when I finish PIntEd I dare say, as that has very little work left to do on it. FlashHacker needs some tweaking and such but should also be out soon.
Oh, and I have a few fancy easter eggs in the planning stages for them too, but if you can think of something you'd like to see randomly included then don't forget to comment with a suggestion. LOLCATZ are forbidden. Stoats on the other hand...