two coding projects that come to mind

[eub]

A URL rewriter. You do a GET from it, and it munges the URL, fetches that, and returns the result. This is a generalization of "gee, I dislike a) clicking like a trained rat for successive chunks of the nytimes.com story, and also b) typing this pagewanted=all cruft onto the end of the URL." I started working on this as a learn-Python project a while back, but then I got sidetracked by my thesis. Python's standard library didn't seem to deal with cookies, so it all got more involved than I'd budgeted time for.

A plugin grouper. Takes a flow graph of VST plugins (or DX if you enjoy pain) and wraps them into a single plugin. Hides some parameters, exposes others, as specified. To start, maybe just define the grouping in a text file, XML maybe; later you can slap a UI on top.

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[elletweedy.livejournal.com]

For the first one, I saw a reference to something for exactly that purpose while looking for my web proxy stuff. I'll see if I can find it. (See, if I had my project finished, it would be easier to find. :)

http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~ranga/software/pwp.html

That's the thing I was thinking of. I don't know if it's what you want.

[eub.livejournal.com]

elletweedy++; that does exactly what I asked for. Now, one thing I forgot to mention is that I'd rather do it as an HTTP server than as a proxy because that way you can expose it to other people without their having to switch away from the proxies they're already using. But maybe I don't care too much. On the third hand, it's all in the good cause of learning Python.

[seanmcguire.livejournal.com]

Iff'n I had my Linux box set up, I'd get Apache and modperl installed on there and write it that way... I bet I could hack it together in a few hours.

The experienced programmers among you recognize this as a way of saying "I have so much hubris that I will be surprised and ashamed when I finish the projects after three weeks of non-stop coding."