pydate
25 November 2008
This is a simple script that determines if a date is a US governmentbusiness day.
version 0.1
version 0.2 14.01.2003 - fixed logic in determining Thanksgivin
Projects
NPR Scripts
9 October 2005
The NPR scripts are for scheduled recording of particular NPR shows sothey can be moved to an iPod or some lesser MP3 device. I use AudioHijack Pro from Rogue Amoeba with the schedule helper installed andhighly recommend it. There are other similar tools out there, and I'mfairly sure you could …
pysize
31 May 2003
Uses resize() instead of thumbnail() in order to make size relativerather than absolute. Requires PIL. It's released under LGPL. Yes, it'sfrighteningly basic, what do you want for 15 minutes work?
It's here.
Blog Tool Guide
9 April 2003
Installationguide and ephemera for the blog tool.
Tested on:
Zope 2.6.2/CMF 1.4.2
Zope 2.6.1/CMF 1.4.2
Zope 2.6.1/CMF 1.3.1
Features of PABlog (running on CMF or plone)
- You can have as many weblogs on a site …
PABlog
3 October 2002
Simple blog toolfor Zope. Requires Zope and CMF. This has been tested with Zope 2.6.2,CMF 1.4. YMMV.
Current Version
13.Jun.2004 - 1.8 is here. Old Versions
19.Dec.2003 - 1.7 is here.
20.Aug.2003 - 1.6.5 is here.
19.Dec.2003 …
pyd3
16 August 2002
This is a project I started backwhen I first started learning python, and I haven't done much with itsince. There are several py tools that do ID3 manipulation (all builton Ben Gertzfield's ID3.py). In trying to organize the MP3 server andall that sort of nonsense I'm thinking of maybe …
XML Editors
25 November 2001
Comparison of XML editors circa 2001
13.04.2001
Overview
One of the identified requirements for the Tequiza project is anXML/webforms editor. I have evaluated the top offerings for the Windowsoperating system, which is our target audience. As a basis forcomparison and with the idea in mind that down …
Zope Intranet
25 November 2001
Guideto using Zope as an intranet server.
Requirements:
Develop an intranet for the company to replace the current "sharedfolder" system. Ease of use/maintenance, granular access control,central management interface, user management tools all required.
Functionality:
There will be a single overall site, with subsections for eachdepartment. The primary site …
Voice XML
14 November 2001
Workon VXML as replacement for VR systems for CWI.
Starting to look intoVoice XML. I'm evaluating VXML as the nextgeneration of IVR, replacing the legacy systems and providingfunctionality not available in traditional IVR systems.
Update: VXML is remarkably simple, just as WDSL/WAPare. It also hassome fairly interesting applications …
Performance Metrics
11 November 2001
Performancemetrics project for Commercialware
|Metric: measurement ofa particular characteristic of a program's performance or efficiency.
Tim has since taken over this projecthttp://marge.mediasset.com/investigators/tweaver/
Update 3.8.2001 - I've been through the cdc demo, now I must talk toTrish about the desired metrics.
I believe that the …
Concept Maps
11 November 2001
Usage ofUML-ish Concept Maps for explicating complextopics.
2.2005 update
Rediscoveredconcept maps, and am finding them very helpful invisualizing the whole system we are developing right now.
2001
jre resolved, it was a path prob. Sitemap now exists on marge, fire upthose clients and start playing around with it …
UDDI
7 November 2001
Overview of Universal Description, Discovery andIntegration
A brief introduction to UDDI
UDDI
IBMAlphaworks
IBMDeveloperworks
IBMServices
WSDL
StencilGroup
What is UDDI?
The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) project isan effort by several major industry players to create a common protocolfor interacting with a wide range of companies and non-corporateentities. At …
MQ Series on Linux
7 November 2001
This is a fairly simple project, install MQ on the server to see how easy it is to do and what it will take to integrate a linux based web system into the current AS/400 hosted app.
MQSeries installs and configures on linux just fine. I've no idea what …
IBM Inner Circle
5 November 2001
Thoughtsand perspectives on the 2002 IBM Inner Circleconference
11.05.2002
General atmosphere
I attended the IBM WebSphere Inner Circle 2002 conference in SanFrancisco May 5-9th. This ran roughly parallel to the developerWorksLive! conference, so I was unable to get to any of dW. This paper isintended as an overview …
Business Intelligence
25 November 2000
Work on BI project for Commercialware
Nov.2000
We have been directed to work on a project called "BusinessIntelligence". Insert your own joke here.
Kelly + Micha are taking the lead on this, I'll be providinginfrastructure/implementation support as well as doing the migrationfrom linux based to windows based sales demo …
p2p applications
11 November 2000
Research on p2papps circa 2000/2001
Research of agent technology, open source model. Napster is commonlycited, but is not a strict p2p model.
gnutella, OpenNap, AudioGalaxy, Hotline, Flycode, WebPager, Jabber,Infobot, Red Rover, freenet, peekabooty, etc are all current focus.
I went to the Colorado Linux InfoQuest 2000 last week …
Style Guide
5 February 1999
Book ofStyle from 1999
I just unearthed this while looking for something else in my backups:
Matthew R. Yarbrough
2.5.99
Table of Contents
Basic Conventions
Web Safe Colors
Web Safe Fonts
Using ASP Fonts
Supported Browsers
Goals
Practice
Browser Features
How components affect page size
Error Checking and …