I am thinking it would actually take less time to have a static web page for each course. We don't use the database for data ( in fact I delete old things so they do not randomly appear). They can't justify building something because my time doing the work around costs less that the web programmer writing something easier. This is the same reason we still can't take credit cards online and the students need to call me or mail a check
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Sophia Brooks - Aug 22, 2012 12:57:58 pm PDT #20769 of 25501
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Ginger - Aug 22, 2012 1:09:58 pm PDT #20770 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
They can't justify building something because my time doing the work around costs less that the web programmer writing something easier.
But they'd only have to do it once and it would save your time year after year. It sounds more like lazy and/or incompetent.
Vortex - Aug 22, 2012 1:35:45 pm PDT #20771 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Sophia, I feel your Pain. I was at a uni for 10 years and had to deal with stupid crap like that all of the tIme. I actually ended up bulidIng my own pages using Contribute.
§ ita § - Aug 22, 2012 4:46:19 pm PDT #20772 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I despise regular expressions with a passion.
I bow to their power, but they cause me tears. I learn Unix standard regex every time from scratch. And it hurts every time. I'm looking to, if not learn it forever this time, find a good tutorial that encourages me to remember, rather than get me to the regex I need to solve my problem this time and ignore anything else.
So if you were going to show someone who's giving up and giving in the best I-can-actually-already-code introduction to regex, what link would that be?
Liese S. - Aug 22, 2012 7:28:51 pm PDT #20773 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hah, I cannot help, because I totally always just look up the one regex I need at the moment.
§ ita § - Aug 22, 2012 7:32:02 pm PDT #20774 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I feel bad. I worked out three different regexes, when technically there is one that will do it, and...I'm gonna forget that shit. But I recorded it, so at least that's not last.
§ ita § - Aug 22, 2012 7:49:36 pm PDT #20775 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And you want to know what it was for? To extract every link to a JPG in the SPN thread, because I needed to find the right one, and paging through was just not working, and search was fruitless.
So...great power.
But I must practice. Good text editors will encourage that.
Liese S. - Aug 22, 2012 7:51:27 pm PDT #20776 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Bwah.
Make that into a sellable product, and you will have millions.
Tom Scola - Aug 23, 2012 3:49:41 am PDT #20777 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Assuming you've saved the thread in a file called "Supernatural.html", this will work:
$ perl -0777 -ne '@x = /href=.(.*?\\.jpg)/g; print join("\\n", @x)' Supernatural.html
§ ita § - Aug 23, 2012 4:33:38 am PDT #20778 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's not precisely what I did--I didn't just grab the http string, I grabbed the entire <a href=" link so it would be clickable html in the output (I did a regexp find all, copy then paste), I just didn't realise that some people used single quotes and some used none at all, so I ended up going back for more. And then the resulting file was pretty illegible onscreen, so I had to insert t li in there tidy it up and make it followable.
But your command line is a good example of the one liners I've been avoiding paying enough attention to in order to remember--it's not like it's a physical pain, or anything.