Lucky ones!

After I moved from nearly embedded/very low level development to applications space, I see a total different world.
You know, I did not write anything significant in user mode on a PC in last 5 years, and the difference since that times is just amazing! Even Eclipse that I am using as an IDE right now looks outstanding. It is being blamed by most of my co-workers for being awkward comparing to IntellJ IDEA, but still using it's source level debugger is more fancier than oscilloscope, or investigating kernel panics and blue screens using a remote serial connection and asm debugger.

Unfortunately, the ((code complexity) / (development convenience)) factor is still roughly the same ;)

Neat small soft.

I have a long history of starting development of nice tools that are eventually created by someone else ;)
The only exception was GeekCredit, but I've abandoned it and iWatt.

Last time ( right after google desktop search tool appeared ) I've started writing the proxy like this one:
http://www.projectcomputing.com/resources/desktopProxy/
I had slightly different purpose and thanks to extra-liberal license I can use this code to make it more useful for file-swapping using Azareus ;) Will see if I will abandon this projects like all others non business projects.

The most difficult part is motivation - usually I am starting writing code in the periods when I don't code much at work, but now I do and still want to try that ;) Will see. I really think that using google desktop proxy to allow distributed search might be useful for BitTorrent, if implemented properly.