Subj : Alco-Solar JS Port (Was: Synchronet Javascript)
To : Zero Reader
From : KenDB3
Date : Mon Sep 05 2016 10:27 pm
Re: Re: Synchronet Javascript
By: Zero Reader to KenDB3 on Fri Jul 29 2016 01:02 am
ZR> On 07/28/16, KenDB3 said the following...
Ke>> You did a really great job, I wanted to say kudos. Would you mind if
Ke>> I tried to emulate what you did? Or, if your work is open source,
Ke>> would you mind if tried to rewrite the whole thing from Python into
Ke>> Javascript and credit you with the module?
ZR> Thanks! I'm not a coder or anything and this was the first thing I ever
ZR> did in Python. It started out just outputting the data like a list, and
ZR> then I just started adding onto it, making that template for it, etc. I
ZR> originally wrote it for DayDream BBS, but I re-did it and started using
ZR> mystic's MCI codes rather than ANSI positioning.
ZR> I run the script as a door from the BBS, or it could be a timed event, and
ZR> it just generates a text file which is then displayed to the user.
ZR> The module that does the heavy lifting is xmltodict, which I'm told is
ZR> very similar to JSON. I use it for some other stuff like a Top 10 Box
ZR> Office listing, and I had a Summits on the Air spot lister once upon a
ZR> time also.
ZR> You're free to use whatever you like. I was basically just riffing off the
ZR> solar widgets from hamqsl. I actually sent him a screenshot of it in
ZR> action and he loved it.
Ke>> My post was basically because I was tinkering around to see if I
Ke>> could even play with the data before I started attempting to write
Ke>> anything else.
ZR> Good luck with it! Let me know if you want to see the Python and I'll try
ZR> to figure out a way to make it available. I never really released anything
ZR> because my code is so bad I didn't want to get ridiculed for it, heheh.
ZR> In the meantime, I hope this solar flux index goes back up. I can't make
ZR> any magic happen on the airwaves...
So, I figured I would jump back on this thread to let folks know that the JS
Port of your program is working (and has been for a little while now), and I
finally made it available now that I don't see any bugs (yet).
So, for anyone reading that was interested :-)
Download from the web here:
http://bbs.kd3.us/kd3doors.ssjs
FTP here:
ftp://bbs.kd3.us/main/KD3DOORS/
In my file area here:
telnet://bbs.kd3.us
And you can pick it up or clone it on GitHub here:
https://github.com/KenDB3/alco-solar-JS
I'll probably throw a post into advertisements as well, because I have another
door that I recently decided to release that gives you the price of Bitcoin and
a historic price chart.
Enjoy!
~KenDB3
