Business closed, new agenda!
Well, it was good while it lasted. I decided to close our busienss, 3 Guys Lab, because after many months of delays and back-and-forths and so on, ultimately nobody really trusted each-other anymore, and nothing was getting done.
We had some great ideas that were very, very marketable. But without good inter-owner relations and TRUST, it’s moot. I may continue developing some of my ideas that we were originally going to develop together, but depends on my time (which is scarce these days).
So, what’s next for me?
Currently, I work as a Software Engineer, for Community Techknowledge, which is an amazing company with a great and extremely useful product (Apricot), which I highly recommend to y’all. End of shameless plug.
As for my “off” time - I have a few projects going, one of which I think I’ll likely blog about:
- Project #1 – Fusion Generator Yeah, real Fusion, as in Nuclear Fusion. It’s nothing new and has been done by quite a few hobbyists, and at least 2 national labratories. They’re better known as Fusors. So I’m jumping into that bandwagon, and going to help try to figure out ways to harness its energy. If you want to build your own, it’s relatively easy – just build a 20kv DC power source, fill a vacuum chamber with Deuterium, charge the case, and fire ions into the center. It produces a fusion reaction and releases enormous amounts of energy (in the million-volt range).
- Project #2 – Perpetual Generator – This one’s a bit of a “try-but-probably-wont-work” project. I’m experimenting with ways to re-channel the magnetic fields of ND:50 magnets in such a way that it’d allow a ring of magnets to push a camshaft and drive a generator motor. Nobody’s ever succeed in creating a perpetual generator, so I don’t have high hopes but it’ll be fun to experiment with, nontheless.
- Project #3 – Ultra-efficient MVC framework – I’ve already developed 2 MVC frameworks, but as any developer knows, they can always be improved. So this third round focuses on two things:
- Improve speed by optimization and reduction of execution paths.
- Improve automation and output optimization by file inclusion detection (e.g. css/js library requirements)
This one’s well underway, and the underlying framework is about 90% finished. I’ve managed to whittle execution time down to 0.0007 seconds/avg, with 3mb memory usage after loading 20 classes and generating a front-end display (via smarty). I lost about 0.00097s after I switched to a mysql-based session management method (final benchmark at 0.00161s/avg).
The MVC is unfortunately private and will (hopefully) be used in future versions of Apricot, provided everyone there likes it. If not, then maybe I’ll publish it, minus any proprietary Apricot/CTK functionality
- Project #4 – Compact microalgal growth methods – Currently I’m researching methods on how to grow microalgal in denser farming environments. I can’t comment more on this one – it’s a FOR-PROFIT project, taking direct aim at Big Oil’s monopoly.
- Project #5 – ?? – I’m really open to working with anyone who has a great idea that will benefit society. I want to do something to contribute back to society, and improve everyone’s lives. So if you have any ideas towards this regard, that’re feasible and needed, I’m open. The only conditions I have:
- The project/idea must not be for the sole benefit of a small group of individuals with intent to profit.
- A patent may not be applied for. All research / results must be for public benefit ONLY, and be of public domain.Like I said, I’m a busy guy, so if any more of my time is to be sacrificed towards a project, it needs to be a real project with the goal of bettering society, not making anyone rich. Because I think that’s the cornerstone of problems in modern society – people don’t believe in eachother – it’s all about the dollar bottom line, keeping board members happy, keeping politicans happy, keeping industry owners happy.. nobody cares if the PEOPLE are happy. I want to change that.
Anyway, I’ll look into starting maybe fusor.johnproffer.com or something, for the Fusor project. It’s going to take a while to do since I”m doing it in my spare time while doing other stuff as well (e.g. MVC). But it’ll happen! 
Cheers.
