Subj : Re: Synchronet Javascript
To : Zero Reader
From : KenDB3
Date : Fri Jul 29 2016 07:56 am
> On 07/28/16, KenDB3 said the following...
>
> Ke> You did a really great job, I wanted to say kudos. Would you mind if I
> Ke> tried to emulate what you did? Or, if your work is open source, would
> Ke> you mind if tried to rewrite the whole thing from Python into
> Ke> Javascript and credit you with the module?
> Thanks! I'm not a coder or anything and this was the first thing I ever did
> in Python. It started out just outputting the data like a list, and then I
> just started adding onto it, making that template for it, etc. I originally
> wrote it for DayDream BBS, but I re-did it and started using mystic's MCI
> codes rather than ANSI positioning.
> I run the script as a door from the BBS, or it could be a timed event, and
> it just generates a text file which is then displayed to the user.
> The module that does the heavy lifting is xmltodict, which I'm told is very
> similar to JSON. I use it for some other stuff like a Top 10 Box Office
> listing, and I had a Summits on the Air spot lister once upon a time also.
> You're free to use whatever you like. I was basically just riffing off the
> solar widgets from hamqsl. I actually sent him a screenshot of it in action
> and he loved it.
> Ke> My post was basically because I was tinkering around to see if I could
> Ke> even play with the data before I started attempting to write anything
> Ke> else.
> Good luck with it! Let me know if you want to see the Python and I'll try to
> figure out a way to make it available. I never really released anything
> because my code is so bad I didn't want to get ridiculed for it, heheh.
> In the meantime, I hope this solar flux index goes back up. I can't make any
> magic happen on the airwaves...
