WordsCount
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===Brian,=== It is now Nov. 6, 2006 perhaps we can use this for now, at least until we get something better going. I'd like to eventually use this site and/or GoodNix for related but non-sfvlug activity and projects. But for now we can use it as a temporary place a little more private than the SFVLUG wiki. At some point we will need more security for commercial applications but this should do for now.
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What I Need
It would be a huge help for me to have some sort of ToDo list of some of the next steps, especially tasks that I can do or quickly learn how to do. I'm reasonably but not completely proficient at Python up to the function and module level. I still have a way to go with Classes. I can probably wind up the word counting, saving and addition part in real short order, it is there in theory, just a matter of getting it polished to where we need it for the next step(s) You can do that how ever and where ever you want. I should have started taking better notes myself, Ironicly, I forget my memory isn't what it once was.
I'll continue to try and get some of our collaborative tools in better shape. Steve seems interested and will probably be a big help to me as far as our WordsCount project and as well as in getting Psyche back in order for the next SCALE. He did say he would like to go over it and fix up some stuff and I might be able to learn more Python from him.
I probably won't need constant feedback, but if you could at least touch base now and then, even if it is just once every day or so. Even if it is just to let me know you are real busy and I shouldn't bug you for X amount of time it would be a big help for me. I just need enough info to help me manage my own time better.
Here is a brief rundown on the current state of affairs the early part of November 2006.
html2text
I don't know how this was overlooked, maybe it wasn't and found lacking. Anyway it might make a great tool for grabbing the text from websites. You may already have it installed, I did. It is html2text and more info on it can be found at http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/html2text.html beware there are other tools with the same name including one in Python http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/html2text.html which has a mixed message in that its license is GPL2.0 but has "Try" and "Buy" headings suggesting either a sense of humor or a desire to get money. That is just the beginning and about as far as I got, but there are more free as well as commercial versions of similar or identical products and services. I don't know how well they do commercially but we may want to take a closer look at some of their business models and marketing strategies.
Briefly, the tool takes arguments and options that sends a text version of an URL (or standard in) passed to it and sends the results to standard out or to a file. It may be the quickest and easiest way to grab text from a page.
ForPractice Update
I posted to IRC but that can be a bit too ephemeral. I have set up a ftp/pop account at: http://forpractice.com/kbsig/ I don't have anything there yet except the old Psyche files.
I also dusted of this site I created some time ago that it seems you never used at: http://forpractice.com/brian/ Contact me for how/if you want the password.
We also still have this one I made a long time ago when our regular server was down. I'd forgotten about it but rediscovered it when setting up this other stuff. http://forpractice.com/sfvlug/ it also has a link to Psyche files in its own subdirectory.
SFVLUG Wiki
Don't forget about this one. You may not have the time to work on anything there yourself but maybe you can encourage others to at least check it out. http://editthis.info/sfvlug/Main_Page
Here is info on getting your own URL to point to your wiki.
For now, at least until we can get more organized it may be best to put comments in our own personal pages or the Start Up pages.
