Jolt Country

Hey TDarcos (or any crackerjack web programmer here), do you know anything about XML?

I have a need for some quick and hopefully easy programming to be done, for more money than making crepe videos. I need someone to create a simple html page that queries my company's API and presents the XML results in a simple easy to read format. I could easily get you paid $150 - $200 for this job or even more possibly if could be done soon.

Here's a sample page to work from.

http://developer.whitepages.com/files/1 ... uilder.htm

http://developer.whitepages.com/member/register

PM me or answer here if you (or anyone else here) are interested in this.

Come on Tdarcos! This job has your name all over it! I think we'd all be happy if he took the job. And the pay is a lot better than what I can offer to post at Caltrops!

Ok, apparently the commander isn't interested or can't do or whatever. Do any of you tech experts know someone who you trust who can do the aforementioned job? God, I wish I hadn't realized I hated programming in college.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Come on Tdarcos! This job has your name all over it! I think we'd all be happy if he took the job. And the pay is a lot better than what I can offer to post at Caltrops!

You never can tell what's going on. As it turns out, I've been extremely busy doing a job for someone else and haven't been here to read the messages. Just because I'm not answering you does not mean I am ignorning you, it could mean I haven't read the items here because I've been busy.

CO wrote:Ok, apparently the commander isn't interested or can't do or whatever. Do any of you tech experts know someone who you trust who can do the aforementioned job? God, I wish I hadn't realized I hated programming in college.

It's not that I'm not interested, it's that I've been too busy to take time to come by and look. As it turned out, I fell into a job that a guy I met who was the clerk at a Rite Aid (drug store) wanted some programming done, and I've been having a lot of fun doing it.

I have always loved programming, it's the most fun you can have with your clothes on. And sometimes even with your clothes off.

CasualObserver wrote:Hey TDarcos (or any crackerjack web programmer here), do you know anything about XML?

PM me or answer here if you (or anyone else here) are interested in this.

How do you PM someone who's a guest? Update: (Don't answer this; I discovered that you can send a PM to a guest account, so i did.)

I'll take a look at it.

I have taken a look at it. I think I can do something with it.
I just have to figure out how to issue a request from a PHP application over the Internet. There's a name for it but I forget what it was.

Tdarcos wrote:I have taken a look at it. I think I can do something with it.
I just have to figure out how to issue a request from a PHP application over the Internet. There's a name for it but I forget what it was.

there's also an example php application on that developers site, if that's helpful.

Any progress mr darkos?

Agreed. We would like to hear if there is any status on this project.

Com? Commander?

How's it going? Can you post what you have written so far?

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Com? Commander?

How's it going? Can you post what you have written so far?

I haven't. I said I'd take a look at it, but it's going to take too long to do anything with, as I'm trying to get my existing commitment finished. (I promised the guy a 2-week delivery, which would be this coming Monday, and it looks like I'll make it.) I've lost some time because of the ongoing virus infection of my computer and because my legs became extremely agonizing and I had to lie down for most of a day.

So while I'd love to do it, I just don't have the time right now. The guy who hired me came here to visit, meaning he knows my address and could punch me in the nose if I didn't deliver. Not that he would, but nonetheless I don't want to disappoint someone who is local to me.

I learned the hard way not to try to do two jobs at once, it causes problems when you can't devote full attention to one or the other.

I kind of expected this kind of thing, don't worry I also gave the assignment to a programmer who resells for us and I'm to receive a solution from him next week. If you do want to work on this at your convenience, I could still get you the $150 even if it's next March or something. Unless its something you don't know how to do and that's ok too, I can't do it either.

I wish I knew more about using API keys. I wrote a fairly decent php front end to query my game, software and media inventory. (The password to the site is godzilla, all lower case. And I removed the "add" feature.)

When I first wrote the website I was using some weird code to query a flat text file instead of a database. It worked well enough in the beginning but eventually the file got too large and my searches kept timing out, so I imported all the entries into a MySQL database and rewrote the front end.

The part I never really finished was the adding part. I can add entries one at a time throught he php gui, and I can add them from the raw database tools, but adding multiple files (like all the mp3s on a CD, for example) was a lot easier with the flat files than it currently is. As a result, the database rarely gets updated and it currently way, way out of date.

Flack wrote:I wish I knew more about using API keys. I wrote a fairly decent php front end to query my game, software and media inventory. (The password to the site is godzilla, all lower case. And I removed the "add" feature.)

It's easy to do the query part, just send a url with the search parameters and key number in it. Harder part is reading the xml schema and presenting the results in a format that's not xml spewed all over the page.

Yeah, that's why I didn't throw my hat into the ring. At my last gig, I worked (for weeks) on a script that would parse Nessus security scan results (in XML) into a readable format that could be easily cut/pasted into final reports.

About the time I got it about 80% working, someone publicly released a much better version of what I was trying to do, so I deleted mine and just used that guy's instead. I think I told my boss I wrote it, too, so win/win.