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

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