Forever Odd

Overview 
Starting last summer I have been assisting with the VoIP roll-out.  I am now back for another summer and have obtained a project that has the potential to be exciting and a learning experience, which enhances the working experience.  Learning does not stop when you leave the classroom, but picks up and becomes more exciting [...]

The following could probably easily be considered three ideas in one, but because the protocol idea seems to ‘bridge’ the other two I decided on an all-inclusive post.
I would like to write my own application-layer protocol that would allow me transfer the data, whether it be text (for chat) or something else relevant to my application(s). 
The following idea [...]