Two Technical Feats in One Day
Sep. 5th, 2002 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yesthattomAt work: I got the damn IP GRE tunnels working between FreeBSD and a Cisco yesterday, but today I got it into a reproducible process that works even if the GRE tunnel goes over a link that isn't up at boot time. Yes!!!
At home: In other news, I eliminated days of programming by finding a web site that will perform the service for us. I was going to spend a LOT of time writing a web-based conference registration system that connects to Paypal. Instead, I found www.MollyGuard.com which will do all our processing for us, and only for $1. AWSOME! So, the problem is that their service doesn't have one feature: extract all data to a CSV file (something you can import into MS-Excell or MS-Access). I wrote to them and they say they will add this feature eventually. Meanwhile, I wrote a program that extracts the data from their HTML "view all data" table and extracts it into a CSV file. The CPAN module is HTML::TableExtract and the author deserves a reward. The entire program that I wrote is 35 lines long. The CPAN modules do all the work for me.
At home: In other news, I eliminated days of programming by finding a web site that will perform the service for us. I was going to spend a LOT of time writing a web-based conference registration system that connects to Paypal. Instead, I found www.MollyGuard.com which will do all our processing for us, and only for $1. AWSOME! So, the problem is that their service doesn't have one feature: extract all data to a CSV file (something you can import into MS-Excell or MS-Access). I wrote to them and they say they will add this feature eventually. Meanwhile, I wrote a program that extracts the data from their HTML "view all data" table and extracts it into a CSV file. The CPAN module is HTML::TableExtract and the author deserves a reward. The entire program that I wrote is 35 lines long. The CPAN modules do all the work for me.
