On Friday 16 July 2004 02:25 pm, Dave Hylands wrote:
> I use Microsoft FrontPage for some stuff
> (http://www.vancouverroboticsclub.org/)
I use no m$ stuff here at all if I can possibly avoid it. Easier on
linux... :-)
> For my personal web site: Http://www.DaveHylands.com/ I wrote a perl
> script which parses a text file containing stuff like this:
>
> ---- Start of snippet ----
> Title: Stinger
> Stinger is my first attempt at building a low profile mini-sumo. I
> would say that
> it was successful, as Stinger came in 2nd place at the
> <a href="http://www.robotgames.com/">Western Canadian Robot Games</a>
> in Calgary.
>
> Image: 01-Base.jpg Base
> The Base is machined out of PVC. I happened to have some on hand
> and decided
> to try it out. The notch in the front was a goof where I didn't have
> the material
> clamped tightly enough during machining. The big holes in the middle
> are to allow
> air cooling of the motor drivers and CPU board.
> ---- End of snippet ----
Perl is something I need to get going with, sometime soon.
> You can see the result of the above by looking here:
> http://www.DaveHylands.com/Robotics/Stinger/
>
> And you can see the entire text file that made the set of pages here:
> http://www.DaveHylands.com/Robotics/Stinger/Pages.txt
> You'll probably need to use wget or something similar to download it and
> preserve the line endings.
Taking that as an invitation, wget is fetching away as I type this. :-)
> It uses a package called ImageMagick http://www.imagemagick.org/ to
> downsample my full sized photos and create 50% versions and thumbnails.
Good package, from what I understand, and I have it on hand here, but for
that sort of thing I use The Gimp.
> I use cygwin under Windows and there are references to a couple of
> cygwin apps in the script as well (cp, cmp, cygpath, mkdir)
>
> I've always meant to write up something that describes how it works and
> make the script available on my web site, but I haven't done so yet. In
> the meantime, I'd be happy to send you the script along with some
> samples and stuff.
I wouldn't mind seeing that, if wget doesn't fetch it. Feel free to pass it
along to my email, if you don't mind.