An Idea I am toying with
While I wait for some photos to upload to Google+ I thought I'd jot down an idea that I've been playing with for some time now.  But first, don't you think it's great that Google+ lets you upload full resolution pictures, it makes for a wonderful offsite backup facility!

Back to my idea;
For a long time I have worked with people that all have their own views on the way in which code should be formatted, these formatting styles only effect the way the code is viewed and have no effect on the way the code functions because white space is ignored in the languages I have used in industry unlike python which is undoubtedly a good language IMO.
The way I decided to solve this problem was to store metadata along with the code, basically a program sits between the developers IDE and cvs that alters the code the developer writes and stores it in cvs as XML the view of the code is then determined via some xslt that the developer has decided upon.

I extrapolated this idea along the inevitable evolution and decided that by being able to apply metadata to classes, methods even code blocks, if cases e.t.c. I could get the vm that was going to run the code to use this extra information to decide how to priorities the calculations in order to make concurrent programming far simpler.


I'll keep you posted on how it goes this entry was just so that I am forced to make a start on an idea I've had for a good few years now!!! How time gets away from you and these ideas never come to fruition, just like the energy generating compost heap idea I had when I was 12, I still hold out hope for that some day :)