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tfabris ([personal profile] tfabris) wrote2008-04-30 02:53 pm
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It's Sereniversary time again!



Wayward gig, Saturday, June 14th, just added to the calendar! And there was much rejoicing. This one falls one week before the Sereniversary annual Equality Now charity screening of Serenity. And if you don't know what that is, add a comment here and surely a bunch of folks will set you straight.

Last time we were at the Wayward, I was introduced to at least a few people who had been dragged there kicking and screaming by one of our regulars. Lo and behold, the newbies enjoyed themselves! Go figure! I was very gleeful about this. Thanks for spreading the love!

So I have a challenge to all of the Wayward regulars: Bring a newbie this time! June 14th will officially be "Bring a Newbie to Wayward" day. Or perhaps "Scare the Mundanes" day, depending on who you bring. Which is wonderful in its own way. Either way, let's have some fun!

By the way, Vixy, with help from our friend and fan JT, has set up a mailing list where we'll be announcing events like this, among other things. Sign up!
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[identity profile] tithonium.livejournal.com 2008-04-30 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, I'm embarrassed that it took me 28 minutes to do that. Let's see.. three minutes to find the calendar I wanted to scrape and figure out the structure.. 5 of testing and cleaning up the data.. that's 20 minutes of reworking the spot scraper code to work on this. Man, I'm so off my game it's not even funny. ::(

[identity profile] tfabris.livejournal.com 2008-05-01 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Very awesome. What did you write it in? Is it something I can actually host on Cyphertext itself (or any web server for that matter) with fairly little trouble?

I know that since Cyphertext is currently in the same room with whatever server is running your script, that's a somewhat silly distinction at the moment. But I like futureproofing stuff before the future becomes the present. Even if that future is only theoretical.

[identity profile] tithonium.livejournal.com 2008-05-01 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a simple perl script that spits out an .ics file. depends on a few standard libraries, nothing major.

[identity profile] tfabris.livejournal.com 2008-05-01 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome. Thanks so much for doing it! The more I think about it, the more I think that, for now, it's best if the script resides with you in case it needs maintenance due to MySpace changing somehow. I need to learn Perl, but it's not in my repertoire yet.

[identity profile] tithonium.livejournal.com 2008-05-01 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Here's the source, if you want to study: http://martian.at/other/vixyandtony.pl.txt
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