DaveSource Marginal Hacks

<: my $canon = ($GOOD==4) ? '' : "index.$GOOD.html" :>

"I'm glad cavepeople didn't invent television, because they would have just sat around and watched talk shows all day instead of creating tools." - Dave James

LICENSE Is it Free?

<: $STAR_FULL = ""; $STAR_HALF = ""; $STAR_EMPTY = ""; :> Too see more/less tools, change minimum rating (0,3,4,5 stars): <: my $DISP = $GOOD; $DISP = 4 if $GOOD==-1; :> <: print ($DISP!=0 ? "none" : "none"); :> | <: my $three = $DISP>=3 ? $STAR_FULL : $STAR_EMPTY; my $four = $DISP>=4 ? $STAR_FULL : $STAR_EMPTY; my $five = $DISP>=5 ? $STAR_FULL : $STAR_EMPTY; print "$three$three$three"; print "$four"; print "$five"; :>
-- Currently displaying <: print $DISP ? "code with $DISP or more stars" : "all code" :> --

<: $DOWNLOAD = "

"; $HOMEPAGE = "

"; $CHANGELOG = "

"; $THUMBSUP = "

"; $THUMBSDOWN = "

"; open(LIST,"list") || die("Couldn't read list\n"); # Unfortunately we have to do .5 stars as 0.5 stars my ($name,$num_stars,$half,$works,$aka) = (undef); my $good_enough = 0; while() { s/^\s*#.*//g; # Ignore comments next if (/^\s*$/); # Ignore blank lines if (/^\s*(\S(.*[^\t])?)\t+(\d)(.5)?\t+(\S+)(\t+(\S+))?\s*$/) { ($name,$num_stars,$half,$works,$aka) = ($1,$3,$4,$5,$7); $name =~ s/\s+$//; $works =~ s/Y/$THUMBSUP/; $works =~ s/N/$THUMBSDOWN/; print " \n \n \n" if $good_enough; #$good_enough = ($num_stars>=$DISP) ? 1 : 0; $good_enough = ($num_stars>=$DISP || -d "Hacks/$name") ? 1 : 0; $good_enough = 0 if $name eq "dAIve"; my $bin = "bin/$name"; $bin =~ s/\.cgi$/_cgi/; my $name_show = $name; $name =~ s/\.tar\.gz$//g; $name =~ s/\.cgi$//g; ($bin,$aka)=("bin/$aka","") if (-f "bin/$aka"); my $name_link = $name; my $home; my $clean_name = $name; $clean_name =~ s/
/_/g; $clean_name =~ s/[<>\s]/_/g; if ($aka ne "-") { $home = $aka ? $aka : -d "Hacks/$name" ? "Hacks/$name/" : undef; unless (defined $home) { $name_link = "$name_show"; } else { my $change = undef; $change = "$CHANGELOG" if (-f "Hacks/$name/CHANGELOG.html"); $change = "$CHANGELOG" if (-f "Hacks/$name/CHANGELOG"); $name_link = "$name_show"; $home = "$HOMEPAGE $DOWNLOAD $change"; } } my $stars=$STAR_FULL x $num_stars; $stars.=$STAR_HALF if ($half); $left = 5 - $num_stars; $left-- if $half; $stars.=$STAR_EMPTY x $left if $left; my $str = < \n \n" if $good_enough; close(LIST); :>

Name

Rating

Works?

Description

$home

$name_link

$stars

$works

END_OF_ENTRY print $str if ($good_enough); } else { print if $good_enough; # Part of the description } } print " \n

Author: David Ljung Madison Stellar [CONTACT]


LICENSE	Free?	Reporting Bugs

"I have an elegant script for this, but it was too big to fit in the margins.."

- Me, MarginalHacks

Thanks to Jamie Zawinsky and the Jargon File for the name

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. - C.A.R. Hoare