pydate

This is a simple script that determines if a date is a US government business day.

version 0.1

version 0.2 14.01.2003 - fixed logic in determining Thanksgivin
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NPR Scripts

The NPR scripts are for scheduled recording of particular NPR shows so they can be moved to an iPod or some lesser MP3 device. I use Audio Hijack Pro from Rogue Amoeba with the schedule helper installed and highly recommend it. There are other similar tools out there, and I'm ...
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pysize

Uses resize() instead of thumbnail() in order to make size relative rather than absolute. Requires PIL. It's released under LGPL. Yes, it's frighteningly basic, what do you want for 15 minutes work?

It's here.
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Blog Tool Guide

Installation guide 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)

PABlog

Simple blog tool for 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
Many wonderful changes.

20.Aug.2003
Many wonderful changes.

...
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pyd3

This is a project I started back when I first started learning python, and I haven't done much with it since. There are several py tools that do ID3 manipulation (all built on Ben Gertzfield's ID3.py). In trying to organize the MP3 server and all that sort of nonsense I'm ...
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Zope Intranet

Guide to using Zope as an intranet server.


Requirements:

Develop an intranet for the company to replace the current "shared folder" 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 each ...
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XML Editors

Comparison of XML editors circa 2001


13.04.2001

Overview
One of the identified requirements for the Tequiza project is an XML/webforms editor. I have evaluated the top offerings for the Windows operating system, which is our target audience. As a basis for comparison and with the idea in mind ...
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Voice XML

Work on VXML as replacement for VR systems for CWI.


Starting to look into Voice XML . I'm evaluating VXML as the next generation of IVR, replacing the legacy systems and providing functionality not available in traditional IVR systems.

Update: VXML is remarkably simple, just as WDSL/WAP ...
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Performance Metrics

Performance metrics project for Commercialware


|Metric: measurement of a particular characteristic of a program's performance or efficiency.

Tim has since taken over this project http://marge.mediasset.com/investigators/tweaver/

Update 3.8.2001 - I've been through the cdc demo, now I must talk to Trish about the desired metrics.

I believe ...
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Concept Maps

Usage of UML-ish Concept Maps for explicating complex topics.

2.2005 update
Rediscovered concept maps , and am finding them very helpful in visualizing the whole system we are developing right now.

2001
jre resolved, it was a path prob. Sitemap now exists on marge, fire up those clients ...
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UDDI

Overview of Universal Description, Discovery and Integration


A brief introduction to UDDI

UDDI
IBM Alphaworks
IBM Developerworks
IBM Services
WSDL
Stencil Group

What is UDDI?

The Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) project is an effort by several major industry ...
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MQ Series on Linux

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 ...
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IBM Inner Circle

Thoughts and perspectives on the 2002 IBM Inner Circle conference


11.05.2002

General atmosphere

I attended the IBM WebSphere Inner Circle 2002 conference in San Francisco May 5-9th. This ran roughly parallel to the developerWorks Live! conference, so I was unable to get to any of dW. This paper ...
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Business Intelligence

Work on BI project for Commercialware


Nov.2000

We have been directed to work on a project called " Business Intelligence ". Insert your own joke here.

Kelly + Micha are taking the lead on this, I'll be providing infrastructure/implementation support as well as doing the migration ...
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p2p applications

Research on p2p apps circa 2000/2001


Research of agent technology, open source model. Napster is commonly cited, 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 ...
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Style Guide

Book of Style 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 ...
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