Largest project you've worked on...

[stratisphere]

Keeping in mind i'd imagine most of us either arnt "professional" programmers or full time programmers, whats the largest project you've worked on. How many lines of code? Was it for a purpose (i.e. work related) or some personal home project.

 

I guess i'll start the ball rolling...

 

I'm working on a network management system at work, started off just to manage multiple logins and printer & drive mappings, it's now > 10mb in size compiled, over 200mb source and contains over 500,000 lines of code and writen in C#

[powdarrmonkey]

The Debian project. Counting any kind of metrics would probably be a waste of my time

[mossj]

Hmm not sure if these count... but you didn't specify programming in the title (although it's in the coding section... but hay I like to boast)so here goes...

 

Project 1, Renovation of some key websites with around 200,000 visitors a week this means moving all the sites out of static HTML and into Plone.

 

Project 2, Open up a university (not saying which one) online store. expected to pay for itself in 1-2 years and turn over around 2 million+ pounds (for the project to be considered a success, against other universitys).

 

All of this is expected to take place fairly soon so watch this space I may be asking for your views in the future

[AngryTechnician]

During a previous job I worked in implementation and testing on a big logistics system for the RAF.

 

Unfortunately the importance of the project (in terms of contributing to the defence of the nation, managing life-or-death risks) did not sufficiently offset that fact that I found the work incredibly tedious, and it cemented my view that I don't want to be a full-time developer ever again.

[mattx]

I once wrote an adventure game in SQL and Rexx which ran on a IBM Mainframe. Everything was saved as a query and I printed it all out which helped me map out the game which was called:

 

' Hunt for the tartar sauce '

 

The game sort of developed into an obsession with me and every min I was not doing what I was supposed to be doing on the DB2 database I was busy setting the next puzzle task etc. The tartar sauce was hidden within a store and you had to get to the right table and run the correct query to find it.

At once stage not happy with the amount of possible settings the game could take I actually made an animation of a running man go across the screen which looked more like a series of CLS commands from the BASIC days - all this was a load of rexx screens slowy moving the running man various arms and legs parts. And oh yes, this was all done on a Dumb Terminal.

I finished off the game by knocking up a procedure for it highlighting the tasks etc and shared it as public...... which really was not a good idea as word got around rather quick and I shat my pants when I popped down to our HR department and every single person was playing it. In a mass panic I quickly revoked access to the procedure but it was too late - the mainframe had logged every single clock cycle that it took and I was asked to explain my actions to some of the various heads of departments......

Strange thing is when I applied for a job in the IT department they gave me a choice of where I wanted to go..........Programing or Support - I took support, paying for it now......

God knows how many lines of code the game was but it took on average about 8 hours to complete. One legacy of the game is that the running man sort of came a dumb terminal screen saver.....

[webman]

Probably Classroombookings.

[john]

Probably Classroombookings.

YAY Classroom Bookings rocks But the multi-million$ question is when is V2

[PiqueABoo]

It's not how big it is, but how you write it that counts

 

Seriously.. I've done the pro-thing more than anything else and since that is a world full of deadlines I inevitably think about project size in man-hours. Number of lines discriminates against finesse, tells us nothing about difficulty etc.

[dwhyte85]

I worked on a handheld scanner (like you get in Sainsburys for self-scanning) to run off of an ePos system called Infinity (which I modded too) in .NET for mobile devices and the SOAP server in delphi. Overall it was about 1000 lines of code for the .NET side & around 1000 for the server. It's now used in Flowerlands apparently by staff for online order gathering or something...

 

I also wrote the C side of it which is ugly and pretty crud in terms of functionality, it's for price checking/changing price

Edited September 29, 2009 by dwhyte85

[broc]

£25m+ Disaster Recovery solution for a major high street bank, involving near real-time mirroring of data 150km between two mainframe data centres, with automation to detect failure & invoke dynamic switch-over. I hasten to add, I didn't do it single handed

[localzuk]

Our cashless catering system. (Still growing, so not ready for general release but we're using it in school now).

 

Probably close to 50k lines of code so far. But more appropriate would be 8 months of work.

[stratisphere]

It's not how big it is, but how you write it that counts

 

Seriously.. I've done the pro-thing more than anything else and since that is a world full of deadlines I inevitably think about project size in man-hours. Number of lines discriminates against finesse, tells us nothing about difficulty etc.

Of course, but it's something to brag about for those of us who arnt in or havnt been in the industry

 

Personally I find programming a nice break from the norm, I love problem solving and you cant get more problem solving and in-depth in IT than in programming.

 

Just started this to let everyone show off a bit

 

(P.s. I'd always say "finesse" is always ofset on the project importance. I.e. if you're writing a quick program to do something at home which you may only do once or twice... it's not really worth the time making routines 100% effecient and adding stacks of error checking. Yet something like Imperium which will be used on stacks of machines in lessons... it simply must not crash! (still working on that ))

 

Quite impressed with some of the things people have done here! Even more impressed with the projects that have been made available via edugeek!

Edited September 29, 2009 by stratisphere
Moved things around, made more sense

[Jamo]

Only 6k lines of code, its a 3D Game engine based on DX9 and openAL does 2D graphics and 3d sound

 

Supports OGG Vorbis streaming and playlists, and fullscreen pixel shader post processing effects

[dhicks]

I once wrote an adventure game in SQL and Rexx which ran on a IBM Mainframe.

 

Ha - I see your SQL and Rexx and raise you a language interpreter written in Scheme (a LISP varient) that I then wrote an adventure game on top of. Also on an IBM machine, running AIX Unix, I seem to remember. It wasn't that large, but it was large enough so that it only just fitted into working memory - two more bytes and the whole thing would refuse to load. I had to go through and trim the descriptive text to make it less verbose.

 

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David Hicks

[apoth0r]

I have not a clue about programming and looking at what you guys have done has given me a headache! Kudos to each and everyone of you for being mathmatically inclined

[mattx]

Ha - I see your SQL and Rexx and raise you a language interpreter written in Scheme (a LISP varient) that I then wrote an adventure game on top of. Also on an IBM machine, running AIX Unix, I seem to remember. It wasn't that large, but it was large enough so that it only just fitted into working memory - two more bytes and the whole thing would refuse to load. I had to go through and trim the descriptive text to make it less verbose.

 

--

David Hicks

 

AIX - never could get my head around it.... Yes but did yours run in an IBM 3270 Emulator ?

Mine did.

[sparkeh]

I used to be a professional programmer. I ended up working on some largeish public sector projects. It was soul destroying. I hated it. I left. I am never going back to that dark place. You can't make me! *shiver* *twitch*

[rad]

I can't stand programming, hated it at school/college so knew i was no good at it.

[dwhyte85]

I hated it at first because I couldn't make anything good, disheartening writing console applications with simple numbered menu's and simple case statements when you look at things like an operating system.:-(

[Jamo]

I find programming so interesting, I started my whole project as a console project, and its developed into an entire graphics engine. Once you have the basis for all of it, adding other parts becomes much quicker. Code reusability is definiately a good thing!

 

Still its just a hobby at the moment, I am hoping to make something useful in the end though!

[SpuffMonkey]

I wrote Conveyancing, Litigation and Probate systems for legal practices a long time ago - can't believe I did it all single handed. This was in "4GLs" under Unix. Loved programming to start with, but after 5 or 6 years I was completely bored - soon as I knew I could do it - it was just long winded typing.

[mjs_mjs]

i'm about to start programming a project management and ovettime system for my mums company in PHP. they employee about 50 people though, so nothing major.

[Arcath]

My biggest project is probabbly the one im working on now.

 

Ive made quite a few CMSs in the past all of them written in PHP and specific to the site im working on at the time. My current project is a CMS written in Ruby on Rails.

 

Its project info page is up on my site (running the CMS as the test bed)

 

Arcath.net :: Train

 

Ive also written a few things for work, a vist log and a couple of little databases

[eean]

In 1997 I wrote an online Auction system for buying and selling milk quota for farmers.

 

In 1998 Ebay launched!

[azrael78]

I've done a fair few things - nothing vast compared to some of you.

 

From 1990 - 2004 I've been active in various projects mostly to do with IRC.

This included overhauling various builds of IRC-Server software and IRC-Services (add-on) software.

 

All of it in ANSI C, written on Linux which later compiled under Windows.

 

On some projects I worked alone - on some it was a team based effort.

 

I can't add up the man-hours because it was all over the place, never consistent hours, it was more for a hobby than anything.

 

As for now... I'd love to get back into it, but I figure I'd have to learn C++, then C# to even think about doing stuff in Windows now. For the moment I'm doing lots of scripts with KiXstart and AutoIT.

 

My current project is a Client/Server for basic remote tasks on PCs that can't (currently) be accomplished by other means here on site. Had to look over my old C TCP notes to get it to do some of what I'd like but it's all a learning curve

 

I'm very interested in the project of stratispheres' - C#... sounds like something I'd like to do with our system here but I'm not employed as a programmer - did you learn C# just 'as-is'?

 

Az