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New Year, New Projects

Happy New Year, to you all!

The start of 2019 may have me starting to blog potentially about my journey of having an experiment apply for intellectual protection! I first started this idea quite a long time ago, and a little ashamed to admit I first started to do it in VB6. Needless to say, I failed miserably.  However I hadn't lost sight of the poison to revisit it in another language, and it actually send like it now has promise!

I'm sure it goes without saying, that I won't be disclosing the idea on this public forum as of this moment.  But, watch this space.

I have another project I want to work on right now as well, and so far have developed the main API's necessary. My speciality is back-end development and I've only got myself working on this project, like so many projects before which have started and flopped. I've done some of the front-end, but I really think this year, I will need to team up with someone.

It's hard though, isn't it. I mean how do you find someone with the right set of skills you need, who you can trust and who will be as as dedicated to the dream you share that will do the work for free in the interim. I have a mortgage, can't afford to pay for anyone right now.

But, I'll figure this out. I want this to be the year when I finally crack the big one.

Cheers!

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