Re: Any photos from KansasFest?

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:42:34 -0500, Ed Eastman <noone@nowhere.net>
wrote:

>July 19-July 24th 2005.  What was your Y2k Hackfest prject?  I don't 
>recall...

Good question.  Let's see if I remember.

In 1999 I didn't get anywhere near as far along in my "HeadHunter"
program as I wanted.  It was to be a program to look in the contents
of files looking for know headers and changing the filename suffix and
or filetype to the appropriate value.  I still want this utility so I
plan on finishing it some day.  Come to think of it, this was the year
that I pulled the all nighter.  This was the first year I attended and
this program was a little bigger than I had anticipated and I was
having problems getting things to work properly in GSoft BASIC as I
didn't have as much experience using it at that time.

In 2000 I worked on SCheckers.  It was supposed to be an online two
player version of checkers written as a Spectrum script.  I got one
side working where it drew the board, left room for chatting and the
chat line buffer and allowed that one side to make moves.  It even
calculated valid moves for the piece that you clicked on to let you
know where you could move and would remove pieces.  However, it was
quite slow and it wasn't until after the judging that Dave Miller
suggested that the communications part, which I skipped because it was
difficult and would have had problems, could have been handled easier
by running the game in a chat room like on Delphi or A2Central.com.

In 2002 I wrote an XML querying subroutine in GSoft.  It allowed you
to ask for the contents of an XML element by passing in a string such
as "RootElement/ChildElement/TestElement".  If you had an XHTML
document you could do things like ask for "HTML/HEAD/TITLE" and get
back the title of a web page.  I can't remember how far I got along in
it now but the querying was to support asking for the nth occurrence
of an element (ie. "HTML/BODY/P(4)" to get the fourth paragraph) and
get attributes (ie. "HTML/BODY/A.HREF") or a combination of them (ie.
"HTML/BODY/A(3).HREF").  My brother and I have written most of this
type of thing as a DLL for windows as well which works great with
PowerBASIC, which is what we wrote it with, and VisualBASIC as well as
any other language that supports DLLs.

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