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Vivtek free stuff |
Since Vivtek is primarily a service company, we don't have a lot of problems giving you some
stuff that we find useful but we don't want to mess with in terms of service. And we've got
some little tools online that you might find useful, too.
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LITERATE PROGRAMMING
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Exactly one free tool. Please download it and tell me you like it.
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XML
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For XML, I have the XML command-line utilities that I call "xmltools."
- XMLtools
XMLtools are four command-line utilties for mangling up XML: xmlsnip, xmlset, xmlinsert, xmlreplace. They all do things
to little bits of the XML tree. They're based on James Clark's expat, so they run beautifully
under either Unix or Win32 (under Windows the expat parser is a DLL, nice feature!) Anyway, I've got executables for
Solaris if you want'em, but the make is really simple.
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WORKFLOW
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Open-source workflow toolkit
Vivtek's first real foray into open-source programming, the wftk is a big, sprawling project that will never be finished.
But one component is!
- Task list manager
The task list manager is an AOLserver/Tcl-based, um, task list manager, which really could use a sexier name. Ah well.
It's still in prototype, but you're welcome to give it a whirl if you're running AOLserver. And if you're not, well, you
should! Go read up on it! More components will be following soon. I'm on a roll.
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ONLINE UTILITIES
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My online utilities (well, OK, only one is there for public consumption right now) are mostly products of my anti-spam sleuthing.
Yeah, I could use Sam Spade, but I like writing my own stuff. If you're into making fun of spammers and scammers, I suggest
you drop by the Make Money Fast Hall of Humiliation, where I spend entirely too much time.
- The dumb proxy
The dumb proxy uses our HTTP
client. It's useful for grabbing stuff without all that browser overhead, seeing headers
that the server sends back, JavaScript before it gets executed, and so on. It's cool.
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AOLSERVER EXTENSIONS
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We do a lot of work with AOLserver. Don't laugh, it's a great product and it's free; you can go look
at our AOLserver topic if you want to know more.
Unfortunately, the future doesn't look really
good for AOLserver regardless of its manifest superiority, thanks to Microsoft's IIS dumping
practices in large part, but also due to the incredible popularity of Apache. Anyway, we have
a couple of Tcl code files that you're free to use if you are running AOLserver.
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