What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

[Skip Kimpel]

I am in the process of creating an applicant tracking system for our HR
department.  The online application will be submitted through a WordPress
website leveraging Gravity Forms.  Thanks to Todd and the Digital
Pomegranate team, I was able to utilize some of the code they have been
writing for the community for this exact purpose.   Once the data is
submitted online, I have a standalone that extracts that XML data and
injects it into our internal corporate SQL database.

The second part of the project is a standalone interface that allows
retrieving and manipulating the database of applicants and perform reports
critical to HR operations.  Automatic routing of applications based on job
function and location, statistical data, export capabilities to Excel, auto
formatting of data into a standardized application, etc.

Right up my alley!

SKIP KIMPEL

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Peter TB Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> What exciting LiveCode project(s) are you working on at the moment? Where
> can we find out more about them?  Have you run into any interesting
> problems (or solutions) that you'd like to share?
>
> ----------
>
> In the office, I'm currently trying to figure out what tools I can build
> to help with core dev team productivity.  For example, I'm planning to
> create a tool that keeps our Bugzilla site (http://quality.livecode.com/)
> synchronised with what's going on in our git repositories (
> https://github.com/livecode/)
>
> In my spare time:
>
> - I've been adding some stuff to my somewhat-insane open source
> "undergrowth" library of pure-LCB bits and pieces (
> https://github.com/peter-b/undergrowth), including a templated string
> formatting function:
>
>     u_format("There are {} lights", [5])   --> "There are 5 lights"
>
> - I've now written a reasonably usable Emacs mode for LCB source code (
> https://github.com/peter-b/lcb-mode), with syntax highlighting and
> indentation support.  It turns out LCB code (and LiveCode script) is
> actually very difficult to highlight well without compiler support because
> of LiveCode's English-like syntax, but lcb-mode does the job adequately for
> the time being
>
> - I've got the idea of making it possible to write externals in Rust going
> round (and round) inside my head but I haven't yet got round to getting it
> working.
>
> ----------
>
> What are you up to?
>
>                                      Peter
>
> --
> Dr Peter Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com>
> LiveCode Technical Project Manager
>
> lcb-mode for Emacs: https://github.com/peter-b/lcb-mode
>
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your
> subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
>