Here is a collection of some random projects I made in C++/Qt on the course of the years, mostly to learn the language. I was young and stupid, so some might be pretty low-quality and/or plain dumb.

A wikipedia race is when you try to find the shortest path between two given wikipedia pages.

A bruteforce crawler for wikipedia races. It uses Qt's asynchronous requests to make a lot requests in parallel, resulting in a breadth-first search that's pretty inefficient in term of memory.

The IT of my school used to set the default passwords to the people's birthday dates. Of course, those birthday dates where available in the yearbook, so a quick scrapper was able to find them and to test them against the pop server.

But just outputting passwords on the command line is not fun. Hollywood thought us a few things about password and database:

• When search in a database, every photo should be displayed as fast as possible.
• Passwords must be cracked character after character, displaying a lot of random characters in the process.

libgarbage is a library that provides an interface that implements theses rules, and garbagecollector uses this library on the previously described problem to provide a hollywood-approved password collecting experience.

Bouncing balls. But without a proper physics engine, so quite boring actually.

A graph : edges and arcs. You must move the edges so that no two arcs intersect. This game was so captivating that I couldn't develop it further than the victory condition check : any attempt to resume development resulted in hours of playing it.

Visits a given list of ftp servers and list all files that are younger than a week. I presume it was used for semi-legal purposes at the time.

The code is a precursor to burgos

The first prototype of one of my recurrent side project : the meal organizer. Select a date range and place meals on it. The idea was to then generate and shopping list and to recommend meals, but I never got to that part. Further prototypes where developed in python/web.

A basic monitoring system that takes xml files as input. We were proud of this at the time. Those where the day.

Yoshi is a ftp indexer and search engine, and it provided an ad-hoc api. This prototype use that api to provide on-the-fly incremental search.