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Subject: Re: Synchronet Javascript Date: Fri Jul 29 2016 07:56:36
From: KenDB3 To: Zero Reader

 > 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...


Thanks Man! I really appreciate it! 

~KenDB3

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